Transplanting Very Low Hairlines

Dr. Rassman, I live in Indiana and I am wondering if you have any recommendations for hair transplant doctors in the midwest. Dr. [name removed] has an office in Chicago, do you know if he is a good surgeon? His pictures on his website look great but he only has a few of them and he seems to be a little risky with giving young people very low hairlines.

I do not comment on particular doctors when I have not seen the doctor personally do the work. I always say that the good news and the bad news about hair transplants is that hair transplants are permanent.

You are correct to worry about physician choice. This is an extremely important step in the overall process. The procedure itself, just like most other cosmetic surgeries, can be expensive depending on the amount of work that needs to be done, and just selecting a doctor because they happen to be local doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get the best results you can. It is crucial that you do your own research before chosing your physician. That is why we hold open house events monthly where people shopping for a doctor can meet face to face with many patients who have had hair transplants done. What you see is what you are going to get, so this type of activity is the best way to search out the process. We do have a travel reimbursement program and will allow someone to include the round trip to come to an open house in the hair transplant reimbursement program. Not only do we have more transplant patients on our newhair.com site than any other medical group, but we have been holding these open house events and seminars for 13 years. In all of the years we have been doing this, we have never had an unhappy patient come to one of these events and that, I believe, says a great deal. I am not saying here that every patient has met their needs or their expectations, but what I am saying is that the doctor must work hard to make the expectations of the patient match the reality of what the experience will be like after the process is over.