THERE ARE           LEGITIMATE WAYS OF PERFORMING F.U.E. (Follicular Unit

Extraction) HAIR TRANSPLANT SURGERY.

HOWEVER, THERE IS ONE OTHER, 'RIP-OFF' METHOD, FAVOURED BY THE 'CUT-

PRICE' CLINICS, THAT CAN COST YOU WASTED MONEY, WASTED GRAFTS, AND

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2 . P R E P E R A R I N G T H E D O N O R S I T E F O R T H E

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O U R T E A M T O I N S E R T T H E N E W G R A F T S .

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THE PROCESS OF FOLLICULAR UNIT EXTRACTION IS RELETIVELY SIMPLE, ALTHOUGH

TIME- CONSUMING.

FIRSTLY, THE SURGEON AND HIS TEAM MUST LOCATE THE BEST DONOR GRAFTS,

AVAILABLE - THOSE HAIRS WITH THE HIGHEST HAIR CONTENT. THEN HE AND HIS

TEAM WILL MATICULOUSLY SEPARATE EACH GRAFT READY TO BE TRANSPLANTED.

OUR SURGEON WILL THEN INCISE MULTIPLE TINY INCISIONS INTO THE BALD

‘RECIPIENT’ AREA IN WHICH TO ‘PLANT’ THE GRAFTS.

THIS PROCESS IS CLEARLY DOMONSTRATED HERE:

HOW FUE HAIR TRANSPLANTS WORK?

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HAIR GRAFTS CAN CONTAIN ANYTHING FROM SINGLE AND TWO HAIR

GRAFTS – USED TO REPLICATE A SOFT, NATURAL LOOKING HAIRLINE

- TO 3,4,5 AND EVEN 6 HAIR GRAFTS. THE BIGGER GRAFTS, USED TO

ADD VOLUME AND DENSITY TO THE PATIENT’S FINAL RESULTS.

*6 HAIR GRAFTS ARE ‘SPLIT’ AND DIVIDED INTO 2 X 3 HAIR GRAFTS,

AS WITH 4/5 HAIR GRAFTS. PLANTING 6

HAIR GRAFTS OR 4/5 HAIR GRAFTS WOULD BE TOO ‘CLUMPY’ TO

ACHIEVE A NATURAL APPEARANCE.

 THE ARTAS ROBOT USES ITS REMARKABLE TECHNOLOGY TO

IDENTIFY THE GRAFTS WITH THE HIGHER NUMBERS OF HAIRS, IN

ORDER TO GIVE THE PATIENTS AS MUCH DENSITY/VOLUME AS

POSSIBLE.

HOWEVER, THE ARTAS ROBOT DOESN’T LOCATE THE MOST SUITABLE

GRAFTS AUTOMATICALLY. IT HAS TO BE

DIRECTED BY, AND IS RELIANT ON THE EXPERTISE OF THE SURGEON.

SIMILARLY, WITH THE ‘MANUAL’ TECHNIQUE, OUR SURGEON AND HIS

TEAM USE MAGNIFYING ‘VISORS’ TO

LOCATE THE GRAFTS WITH THE HIGHER HAIR CONTENT.

THE CONTENT OF A ‘SELECTED’ F.U.E. GRAFT – AS DETERMINED BY

THE I.S.H.R.S. (INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF HAIR RESTORATION

SURGERY) IS ESTIMATED AT 2.6 HAIRS PER GRAFT. THIS FIGURE IS

ATTRIBUTED TO THE MORE EXPERIENCED DOCTORS.

 A MUCH CHEAPER METHOD, WHICH DOES NOT USE THE TIME-

CONSUMING ‘SELECTION’ PROCESS. A METHOD FAVOURED BY THE

TURKISH CLINICS. WHICH IS HOW THEY ARE ABLE TO CUT THEIR

PRICES TO THE BONE....

THE SELECTION PROCESS

THIRD METHOD OF FUE SURGERY...

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THEY INVARIABLY USE NON-MEDICAL ‘TECHNICIANS’ TO PERFORM THE

SURGERY. IN FACT, THE ONLY TIME

THE DOCTOR IS CONSULTED, IS WHEN HE/SHE MARKS OUT THE

PROPOSED HAIRLINE.

THEIR ASSISTANTS PLUCK THE GRAFS FROM THE DONOR AREA AD

HOC - LIKE PLUCKING A CHICKEN - WITHOUT CHECKING THE CONTENT

OF THE GRAFTS. THIS RESULTS WITH THEIR USING

PREDOMINANTLY ‘LOW-DENSITY’ 2 HAIR GRAFTS.

 THE GRAFTS ARE THEN PLANTED INTO THE SCALP, FOLLOWING THE

DIRECTION OF THE HAIRS, ORIGINAL, NATURAL GROWTH. THIS TAKES

EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE.

ONE OF THE MOST COMMON COMPLAINTS I HEAR FROM FORMER

PATIENT’S OF TURKISH CLINICS S HAIR GROWING IN THE WRONG

DIRECTION, OR EVEN NO DIRECTON AT ALL, WITH THE HAIR GROWING

DIRECTLY UPWARDS, RESEMBLING A ‘TURNIP’

GRAFT COUNTS: ESTIMATED HARVEST USING THE ‘SELECTION’

PROCESS: 2000 GRAFTS = 5,200 HAIRS

3000 GRAFTS = 7800 HAIRS 4000 GRAFTS = 10,400 HAIRS

ESTIMATED HARVEST FROM THE TURKISH CLINICS: 2000 GRAFTS =

4000 HAIRS 3000 GRAFTS = 6000 HAIRS 4000 GRAFTS = 8000 HAIRS.

CONSEQUENTLY, USING THE ‘SELECTION’ TECHNIQUE, WE WOULD

HAVE NEEDED TO HARVEST 3077 GRAFTS TO ACHIEVE THAT SAME

NUMBER OF 8000 HAIRS, RATHER THAN 4000 GRAFTS.

SAVING OUR PATIENT’S APPROXIMATELY 923 VALUABLE GRAFTS ON

THIS SIZE PROCEDURE.

923 GRAFTS WOULD HAVE BEEN SUFFICIENT TO AVOID THE TERRIBLE

RESULTS DISCUSSED IN MY ARTICLE

‘SCAMMED’ (BELOW).

GROWTH DIRECTION

AS THERE’S A FINITE NUMBER OF GRAFTS THAT CAN BE TAKEN

FROM THE AVERAGE HAIR TRANSPLANT PATIENT’S DONOR AREAS,

GRAFT WASTAGE CAN OFTEN RESULT IN THE PATIENT RUNNING

OUT OF AVAILABLE DONOR GRAFTS.

RUNNING OUR OF ‘DONOR’ GRAFTS, CAN BE THE DIFFERENCE

BETWEEN SUCCESS AND FAILURE TO MANY UNFORTUNATE

‘VICTIMS’ OF CUT-PRICE SURGERY...

REFERENCES TO THE REAL FACTS OF WHAT’S HAPPEINING WITH

TURKISH HAIR TRANSPLANT CLINICS:

I.S.H.R.S. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF HAIR RESTORATION

SURGERY 

INTERNATIONAL PRESS COVERAGE

SCROLL DOWN TO READ "SCAMMED" ARTICLE

 BY MALCOLM MENDELSOHN

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R E A D M O R E

R E A D M O R E

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I responded to an email from a ‘so-called’ digital marketing company

offering sales leads they claim to have acquired, as a result of a health

marketing campaign. 22,000 responses from people being offered

sizeable discounts for hair-loss related services.

So, I transferred my money into his account and got a response telling

me that the 22,000 emails had risen to 33,000 and they were sending me

additional 11,000 emails as a bonus.

A week later I sent out the 1st 5000 emails as a tester. Approximately

4800 went straight to Spam!

I contacted the supplier and he gave me several reasons as to why this

had happened. He suggested that I make One or Two minor

adjustments, one of which was to use a dedicated server and send them

out again.

I responded to his email to ask him another question, and lo and behold,

my email bounced!

I then revisited his website, and yes, you guessed, I got an error

message to say that ‘this site had been suspended’!

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That was 3 Months ago and, as the days go by, the anger that I feel at

being scammed subsides, little by little, as the memory fades.

Then, I consider myself lucky. Lucky?  Yes, very lucky!

What if I had been scammed, and the damage was permanent. When,

every time I looked in the mirror, I was reminded of the abuse?

Like my new friend, who has just written me.

He had responded to an advert for hair transplant, and the results were

so diabolical that he was left scarred for life?

Can you imagine, having to be faced with such a dilemma 24/7 for the

rest of your natural life? It’s not worth thinking about!! But, that’s what

happened to this young man.

He’d responded to an advert from a Turkish hair transplant clinic. A

clinic offering him a full-head hair transplant for £2,400. Yes £2,400 for

4000 hair grafts. The price including his air fare, his hotel costs and his

collection and return to the airport.

One can only ask the question, how much of that money was left to pay

for his surgery?

The answer is in his results. Look for yourself:

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The Clinic concerned had used 2 hair grafts. Grafts with an average hair

content of 2 hairs.

Most ‘legitimate’ clinics use the ‘Selection’ process. This is when the

doctor and his/her team ‘select’ the hair grafts with the highest hair

content. Using magnified ‘visors’ with which to identify, select and

remove the bigger grafts.

Not just single and 2 hair grafts which we use to produce a ‘natural’

looking hairline but 3/4/5 and even 6 hair grafts, to give their patients

the most volume/density available, behind the front hairline and top

scalp. A process that takes time, and time costs money. A little more

than my young friend paid.

This clinic had tried to cover a vast area of baldness with low-density 2

hair grafts. The results can be seen. Big gaps between the grafts and

areas of baldness behind the patient’s ear where the young trainees had

over-harvested his donor site. The patient has even been forced to comb

part of his thicker, side growth, onto his top scalp to add a little more

volume to his ‘spaced-out’ results.

He told me he’d tried growing the hair longer at the back to disguise the

bald patches behind his ears, but the longer he grew his hair, the more

noticeable the loss became.

4000 x 2 hair grafts, produces approximately 8000 hairs.

Whereas, 4000 grafts using the ‘selection’ process produces up to 10,400

hairs. 2,400 extra hairs that could have meant the difference between a

‘see-through’ result and a ‘natural’ looking result?

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Added to which, Clinics using the ‘selection’ process could have

produced the same number of 8000 hairs by harvesting around 3100

grafts.

So not only did this clinic produce an unacceptable result, they wasted

900 of this patient’s grafts. Grafts that he now badly needs to add

volume to his ‘see-through’ results. Grafts that are no longer available to

him.

Apparently, the clinic who performed this man’s hair transplant didn’t

use a doctor to pluck out his grafts. They, like the vast majority of the

Turkish clinics, use young, non-medical trainees to pluck-out the grafts

ad hoc.

In fact, their young ‘victim’ told me, the only time he saw the doctor was

when his hairline was marked out. The rest of his procedure was

performed by assistants.

So Why, when you search for hair transplant clinics on the net, don’t you

hear of cases like this?

The answer is simple. These clinics hire SEO (Search Engine

Optimization) experts to ‘lose’ the negative publicity. They ‘push’ the

complaints to the bottom, out of sight.

However, as time goes by and the truth of what’s happening in Turkey

spreads and institutes like the I.S.H.R.S. (International Society of Hair

Restorations Surgeon’s) voice their opinions, the truths comes out: 

The press too has got ‘wind’ of the atrocities: 

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Even guys like me are beginning to have their views published:

Unfortunately, the responses for some, have come a little too late.

Not soon enough to save my unfortunate young friend from a lifetime

of using hair-thickening ‘fibres’ with which to disguise his

misfortune.

                                                                   Malcolm Mendelsohn

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