Hair Transplant Horror Stories

As i am concerened by hairloss, I have looked at your site and read some useful information. The one question I had was, while going through the Horror Stories link [note: on our sister site, TheBaldMan.com], are there any horror stories which have occured after about the year 2000, and the development of FUE and FUT. I can understand that an operation which cuts a large chunk of skin out of a persons head is going to run the risk of causing a large scar and other related complications, but has the development of new techniques like those above which allow the removal of single hairs got away from these problem or has got other ones? Also why do so many people choose to keep the name of a bad doctor to themselves?

Thank you

You are correct that fewer and fewer horror stories are appearing because today’s techniques are much better than those of the 80s and early 90s. Certainly, the quality of the work of the top notch surgeons has improved to produce virtually undetectable transplants. The focus of those surgeons is now on improving the growth of transplanted hair. There are still some failures with these modern techniques because today’s FUE and FUT techniques require exacting methods which, if not followed, will cause the transplant not to grow.

Well trained doctors using modern techniques should produce not only undetectable transplants, but a very high survival rate. Still, there are some doctors who do not know what they are doing, and I still see some terrible complications which reflect a doctor’s lack of training, skills or ethics. I am also seeing more and more patients who are being transplanted that should not have been transplanted and those who being sold more grafts which are put in beyond the balding area and into the permanent hair zone, just to increase the fees. Find yourself an ethical doctor who uses modern techniques and be sure to meet with some of his patients before you take him/her on.

I often ask the same question that you did in this email: “Why are the names of bad doctors kept secret?” The answer here is that men are generally not confrontational, and they do not like to be reminded that they made a mistake. They do not want to relive a bad experience over and over again. Just sharing their stories to prevent others from making their same mistakes is not a pleasant experience for these victims.