| 1. |
Scalp
reductions and flaps. Avoid these or be prepared to style
your hair in unusual ways to hide the inevitable scarring
and unnatural hair direction. |
| 2. |
Any graft
other than follicular units. Example: Punch grafts,
minigrafts, square grafts, linear grafts, slot grafts etc.
These methods can never appear completely natural. |
| 3. |
Clinics that
tell you their grafts contain more hairs in them and
therefore produce a better result or yield a better
investment. |
| 4. |
Any physician
that is willing to transplant hair in areas where existing
hair follicles are too close together. They would literally
have to damage your existing hair while making incisions in
order to insert newly implanted hairs. |
| 5. |
Inadequately
trained physicians. Many physicians who enter this field are
“burned out” and feel this may be an “easy job”. Be
sure they have obtained adequate knowledge into the science
of hair growth. |
| 6. |
Clinics who
are not up front about their prices. |
| 7. |
Clinics that
do not have an adequate number of patients to maintain
skills. |
| 8. |
Clinics that
are more concerned about how you will look in one year than
in twenty or thirty years. Remember you must have a
transplant that will look natural as you age. |
| 9. |
Clinics that
mislead you into thinking that they offer hair transplantation
when they don't. |
| 10. |
Clinics that
place more emphasis on their marketing than on the
experience and credentials of the physician that would be
performing the procedures. |
