/r/HairRestoration
The is a slow-form version of the main subreddit /r/HairTransplants
Quick list of surgeons that tend to have higher number of reviews and may be in good standing with the hair transplant community. THIS IS NOT COMPREHENSIVE, it's shortened to fit in the sidebar,
Also, THIS ARE NOT RECOMMENDED SURGEONS, THESE ARE REVIEWABLE SURGEONS. These are just surgeons with a very high number of reviews that someone can search through and do a deep diligence dive into their qualifications, flaws, and strengths.
We implore you to see our full list here and editors notes here
And keep in mind that any list should be approached with high skepticism.
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Dr. Kongkiat Laorwong [Thailand]
Dr Kaan Pekiner [Turkey]
Dr. Luis Nader [Mexico]
Dr Abdul Muttalip Keser [Turkey]
Dr. Gokhan Gür [Turkey]
Dr. Dogan Turan [Turkey]
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Dr. Ximena Vila [Spain]
Dr. Felipe Pittella [Brazil]
Dr. Bruno Pinto [Portugal]
Dr Bruno Ferreira [Portugal]
Dr. Rafael De Freitas [Spain]
$ $ $
Dr. Juan Couto [Spain]
Dr. Christian Bisanga [Brussels]
Dr. Bijan Feriduni [Belgium]
Dr. Sever Muresanu [Switzerland]
$ $ $ $
Dr. Ron Shapiro [Minnesota]
Dr. David Josephitis [Minnesota]
$ $ $ $ $
Dr Sahar Nadimi [Chicago]
Dr. Raghu Reddy [London]
Dr. Carlos Wesley [New York]
$ $ $ $ $ $
Dr. Raymond Konior [Chicago]
Dr. Munib Ahmad [Netherlands]
For general hair loss issues, please checkout our sister subreddit
Rule 1:
No spam
Rule 2:
Don't be a dick to any hair transplant patient, even those not on our subreddit. There is much more leeway to public figures, influencers, and people in positions of authority, but this doesn't mean you can random insults, what you say must be grounded in a specific critique. But you can insult the moderator WallabyUpstairs, who believes in total leeway for any criticism against him, as he feels that there should be high leeway to criticize people in authority. This exception does not apply to any other moderator.
Rule 3:
Any financial conflicts of interests must be disclosed if they're related to any advice given, including multiple degrees of separation. Our subscribers absolutely have a right to know of all biases for any advice given, and anyone caught circumventing this may receive a permanent ban. Financial conflicts of interest must be disclosed in the 1st or 2nd sentence.
Rule 4:
No direct commissions. We allow representatives of a business or clinic granted that they follow rule 2. But receiving a direct commission incentivizes the worst type of behavior and advice.
Rule 5:
If you're going to name a clinic in a update or review title, you must name the specific surgeon that worked on you. If there was no doctor involvement, you must name the head technician. Updates without anything being named is ok. If a clinic refuses to list the doctor on their website, then the clinic can not be named in the title.
Rule 6:
If you work in the hair transplant industry, you need a flair to indicate that. Reach out out to the moderators to get your flair established.
Rule 7:
Do no speculate on anyone's mental health. Not even a person in authority or influencer. No loopholes, don't even give an implication or 'sentiment'. Yes we have high leeway for people in positions of authority but not for this. But this does not apply for the moderator WallabyUpstairs, who believes in total leeway for criticizing him.
Rule 8:
Absolutely no 'thirst' comments against female members of the hair transplant industry. Don't even try. Don't try any plausible deniability or faux ignorance. No, your way of doing it is not 'classy', 'charming', or 'high minded'. You're not different. Exercise some impulse control. Sexualizing female members of the hair transplant industry on other forums will also results in punishments. Just don't do it.
Rule 9:
If you are a clinic, supplement, pharma company, or any other type of marketer, do give unsolicited messages to our users. If you receive an unsolicited message, we would appreciated an alert, and you can also report them to the admins by clicking on the 'report' button at the button of their message, or by pressing the flag in the chat.
Rule 10:
Generally no results and other posts by clinics/surgeons. Though we don't have anything against surgeons posting their results in theory, our front page is already crowded from patient postings, so we generally don't allow postings by clinics. Though there may be instances where its good for our community, such as important info. But self advertising type posts are definitely not allowed. I'm trying to develop a subreddit where clinics can make posts freely including their results here https://old.reddit.com/r/HairTransplantDoctors/ Although its not officially launched, they can start posting results or any other posts there. Doctor ARE free to comment here, please dm the mods to obtain an industry flair.
Here are our extended list or surgeons you can scout
THESE ARE NOT RECOMMENDED SURGEONS, THESE ARE REVIEWABLE SURGEONS
These are surgeons that just have a decent number of independent reviews that you can do a very thorough search and DO YOUR HOMEWORK if they are good and good for your.
More details here
https://www.reddit.com/r/HairTransplants/
Dr. Munib Ahmad [Netherlands] $ $ $ $ $ $
Dr. Raghu Reddy [London] $ $ $ $ $
Dr. Sever Muresanu [Switzerland] $ $ $
Dr. Luis Nader [Mexico] $
Dr Chiara Insalaco [Italy]
Dr Fares Seffen [Tunisia] $ (reviews on French forums)
Dr. Taleb Barghouthi [Jordan]
Dr Abdul Muttalip Keser [Turkey] $
Dr. Ozlem Bicer [Turkey] $
Dr. Ron Shapiro [Minnesota] $ $ $ $
Dr. Felipe Pittella [Portugal] $ $
Dr. Erkan Demirsoy [Turkey] $
Dr. Christian Bisanga [Brussels] $ $ $
Dr. Blake Bloxham [New York]
Dr. Fas Arshad [UK]
Dr. Emorane Lupanzula [Brussels]
Dr. Sergio Camacho [Colombia] $
Dr. H. Rahal [Toronto]
Dr. Kongkiat Laorwong [Thailand] $
Dr. Raymond Konior [Chicago] $ $ $ $ $ $
Dr. Glenn Charles [Florida]
Dr. Ximena Vila [Spain] $ $
Dr Bruno Ferreira [Portugal] $ $
Dr Kaan Pekiner [Turkey] $
Dr. Jerry Cooley [North Carolina]
Dr. Kyriakos Maras [Greece] $
Dr. Rafael De Freitas [Spain] $ $
Dr. David Josephitis [Minnesota] $ $ $ $
Dr Sahar Nadimi [Chicago] $ $ $ $ $
Dr. Juan Couto [Spain] $ $ $
Dr. Robert Dorin [New York]
Dr. Bijan Feriduni [Belgium] $ $ $
Dr. Mike Vories [South Carolina]
Dr. Carlos Wesley [New York]
Dr. Michalis Georgiou [Cypress] $
Dr. Steven Gabel [Portland]
Dr. Gokhan Gür [Turkey] $
Dr. Bruno Pinto [Portugal] $ $
Dr. Robert Haber [Ohio]
Dr. Dogan Turan [Turkey] $
Dr. Edward Ball [London]
Dr. Jorge Cortez [Mexico] $
Dr. Resul Yaman [Turkey] $
Dr Espinosa Custodio [Spain] $ or $ $
Dr Hans Heinicke [Spain] $ or $ $
Dr. Scott Alexander [Pheonix]
Dr. Tsvetalin Zarev [Bulgaria]
Dr. Manish Mittal [London]
Dr. Parsa Mohebi [Los Angeles]
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/r/HairTransplants Moderator Code of Conduct
Code 1
There is total leeway to criticize moderator WallabyUpstairs1496 . People should be given high leeway to criticize people in authority position. I, the person who is writing this, WallabyUpstairs1496, can set boundaries for myself, but not other moderators. Please treat all other moderators with the same respect you would give anyone else. But for critiquing moderator WallabyUpstairs1496, you have total leeway. As for other authority/influencer/moderators off this subreddit, you have very high leeway, but not total leeway. Don't speculate unflattering things about their private life or mental health or anything like that.
Code 2
No financial favorers or gifts. This is not only a subreddit rule, it's a reddit-wide rule https://www.reddit.com/r/HairTransplants/comments/14rtbuq/full_disclosure_a_clinic_reached_out_to_me_asking/
Code 3
Anyone we criticize has a right to give a statement for whatever criticism we give. If we can fit it in within the character limit, we'll edit it into the post where we criticized such entity.
Here is an example where Spencer Stevenson "Spex" was banned from this subreddit for purposefully being deceptive about disclosing financial conflicts of interest, and then feigning faux-ignorance about it. He has led many people to a path of not the best hair transplant experience since he has people on his list that are not in good standing with the veteran class of the hair transplant community. Many people with 0 number of full journey independent reviews, and even a hairmill operator. But despite that, we included a statement from him after he was banned.
Here is another example where Melvin Lopez and Patrick Hennessey kept recommending one of the most horrific surgeons known to the community, Dr Diep, while taking a monthly fee from him, despite them full knowing the full extent of his horrific practices and horrific results in patients, even going so far as to lock and remove meta threads discussing Dr Diep.
/r/HairRestoration
500 Subscribers
Failed or mediocre transplant from legend Dr. Bisanga - 4yrs later
See here: https://imgur.com/a/OquQGZv
This cost $10k for 2.5k grafts.
I left my updates on HRN:
I would appreciate it if folks could chime in on if you think it's a failed or subpar result and whether or not I should ask for a discounted repair or not. And if so how to go about this.
I believe the clinic wants to make a public statement if that thread continues to get out of hand because no one has said a positive thing about the outcome.
The clinic told me they'd charge me another $8k to repair this.
I'm turning to this subreddit to see if it's silly for me to hand over another $8k to Dr. B.
What do you think?
22:51 UTC
Heads up, subreddit was/is under an astroturfing attempt from Este Gerrahi clinic. DO NOT CONSIDER THIS CLINIC.
19:06 UTC
Hair Transplant survey part II, Dr Steven Gabel and Dr Raghu Reddy
20:51 UTC
Early results of Surgeon survey from Konior, Bisanga, Shapiro, Josephitis, Ferreira, Turan, Gur, and Ahmad. Also, I need additional surgeons contacts info. If you know the contact info of any surgeon on our list of Surgeons with decent volume of independent reviews, please reach out to the mod mail
20:40 UTC
Looking for hair transplant stories for This American Life
21:49 UTC
Interesting thread on Dr Feller and Spex. Spex has an article in The Telegraph, where he fails to disclose his financial conflicts of interest.
https://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/topic/74081-spex-article-telegraph/#comment-791878
some highlights, Spex has a new article, seem to endorse a whole clinic instead of a surgeon, and again, refusing to disclose his financial conflict of interest, even when he promised to a year ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/HairTransplants/comments/1245ii1/spexhair_has_been_permanently_ban_for/
There are ways you can give feedback
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/contact-us/editorial-complaints/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/webform
I wrote them this
Hello,
The guest author for this article, Spencer Stevenson , runs a PR firm for hair transplant surgeons. They pay a monthly fee for him to promote him.
The clinic mentioned in the article promotes a hair transplant clinic that sponsors Spencer, but he failed to disclose to financial conflicts of interest.
There are allegations from the hair transplant community of him organizing harassment/gaslighting campaigns against those who critique any of the surgeons he represents. There are also allegations that he scammed multiple people in the past.
Here are two discussion threads that discuss this problematic promoter
https://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/topic/74081-spex-article-telegraph/#comment-791878
https://old.reddit.com/r/HairTransplants/comments/1245ii1/spexhair_has_been_permanently_ban_for/
16:05 UTC
This is your annual reminder that Hair Restoration Network is run by a deeply unethical, corrupt Mod who will leak your IP address publicly + other information. Use a VPN + fake name/email if you insist on going to the website.
23:04 UTC
Hair pulled out
Suppose you remove your hair with wax. Will it grow back? If not what would be the mechanism?
14:58 UTC
Eugenix Review thread, potential for do not recommend list
I've been seeing a lot of concerning things about the clinic.
I put them on the do not recommend list here out of an abundance of caution with respect to patient safety here
While using this thread for letting people discuss.
I'm been busy and haven't been giving this the time it needed, but starting this thread now.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE
They are no longer on Hair Restoration Network's list
Discussion here
https://old.reddit.com/r/HairTransplants/comments/1h015fj/eugenix_resigns_or_was_removed_from_hair/?
17:38 UTC
Urgent warning against Gro clinics. Allegations of unqualified staff doing damage to patients.
08:28 UTC
Planning on following up on this finally. Been distracted, but have more time now.
23:26 UTC
Feedback on the next set of educational resources.
A few things to have planned:
Next set in the survey series.
The first round here is here.
I think in 3-4 months, we can have another round of questions. I didn't want to put too many in this round, so that it's easier to fill out.
Here was the first survey planning, with left over questions.
But would like to brain storm some new ones.
One thing I would like to ask about is how they deal with patients with perhaps non-ideal requests, either in artistry, coverage, age (under 25?).
Review of any surgeons to add to our list of surgeons with decent volume of reviews
I added a few people to the not enough independent reviews section of guide to hair transplant. Mostly the new people added to Hair Restoration Network ever since they got rid of the independent reviews requirement so that they can take in more money from more surgeons.
Dr. Kulakarn Amonpattana
Dr. Ted Miln
Dr. Ruk
I reviewed Dr Pukpinya Jangjetriew / Dr Patty. They could have enough reviews to be put on the list. I've said before it should be 1 year results, but with modern hair transplant techniques, a lot (maybe most now?) seem to be done in 6 months, and not uncommon to be done in 4 months. If they are not ready to be introduced today, I think maybe in just 3-4 months, they could be, judging from the volume of recent post op updates.
I also reviewed Dr. Ratchathorn Panchaprateep upon request. Not yet enough full journey reviews, but considering the recent volume of post op reviews, could have potential in maybe 4 to 6 months.
For the last two, I noticed there were a lot more reviews on here than in HRN, which is surprising to me since HRN usually has more reviews than here. I think it might be due to the number of subscribers here around doubling within the last year. Though HRN definitely has more reviews from non-Turkish and non-Thai surgeons. I think our subscriber base may be more modest income, so people are looking for surgeons in lower cost of living countries.
Guide to discussions with surgeons
From talking to patients, it seems that often, there is no in-depth discussions of the planning. I think it's because many patients jump in before learning about the process imo, and are not interested in doing that. I would like to make a guide to discussions with the surgeon (or case handler, if they have one), it could result in a better understanding the procedure, and perhaps better info for the doctor to guide the procedure.
What questions to ask, what info to disclose, etc.
Why you can't use celeb and high incentive outcomes to judge a clinic
One marketing trick hairmills use is getting a celebrity to get a transplant at the clinic, usually some athlete. I would like to give info about how there could be potential for process change for a high incentive vs low incentive patient.
The importance of a surgeon's tech team, how they guide the team, and introduce new members
I think this is one of the most underestimated part of any practice, and there's more emphasis on surgeon skill, which is important, but after that, the next most likely area of potential failure is to do with the technician. And in those cases, a technician who may have mis-scouted or introduced to the process too early.
I think if more people understood this, they would learn to see hairmills from a more skeptical eye.
What else do you think could be a good guide?
Looking to get as much help and expertise as possible in creating these guides.
Which reminds me, it's been a long time since I've scouted who would be the smartest people on the subreddit. Who do you feel are the best to help with these guides?
12:11 UTC
HRN suspects astroturfing from Dr Alok Sahoo
11:20 UTC
Educational resource for the recent survey. Though Melvin Lopez is unethical & generally problematic person, his educational resources are great in cases of no financial conflicts of interest, perceived slights, etc: DHI, Stick and Place, Pre-Made Slits w/ Dr. Mwamba and Dr. Konior"
09:54 UTC
Fake reviews on clinics
03:13 UTC
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06:20 UTC
Mod disclosure. Legal threats have been made against me for moderation decisions made on this subeddit.
Mod disclosure, within the last few days, legal threats have been made against me for moderation decisions made on this subreddit.
The person in question has hired a legitimate law firm.
I suspect a legitimate detective as well though at this point this is speculation on my part.
I'll give out more information when I can, but it's imperative for the subreddit to be notified if there are attempts to influence moderation decisions .
People made medical and important life decisions using the information about this subreddit all the time. Subscribers deserve to know whenever possible whenever the information is being manipulated. I realize that there have been attempts made by hair transplant influencers such as Spex, HairLossExperiences, Joe Tillman, and Melvin Lopez/Hair Restoration Network, to lower their standards for transparency, please be aware of this and be vigilant. They are looking to make money off of you. Don't let any entity gaslight you into lowering your standards. Don't trust any entity, not even me. I am anonymous, I wouldn't put trust on any anonymous figure, neither should you. Nothing should be treated as an oracle, only resources that should be assumed to have biases.
I can't guarantee I'll be able to find out all attempts at manipulation, or even if I can disclose information that I know due to Reddit sitewide rules against talking about particular accounts (which could break account harassment and or doxing rules of reddit). Any subscriber should assume the worst while using any hair transplant forum for research, and do the most thorough self research possible, while simply using these forums as tools while keeping in mind the potential for manipulation.
I need to figure out the situation more before I can disclose further. I will give more information when I can.
23:49 UTC
Planning on sending out a survey to docs on the list of docs with decent volume of reviews. What would you like to ask?
EDIT published initial results here https://old.reddit.com/r/HairTransplants/comments/1gfo1ds/early_results_of_surgeon_survey_from_konior/?
Hello,
I have noticed that even with a decent volume of reviews, some information is hard to come by, like experience with Afro hair. I am thinking of sending out this optional survey. Is there anything I should add?
FUT/FUE/Both offered?
Size of your surgical team? Who are they (technicians, doctors, etc)?
Background and years experience for each of your team members?
How often do you introduce a new member to your team?
How much training do new team members go through before being a part of your surgical team, and criteria for letting them onto your team?
Does the doctor use full-time technicians and staff? Does the doctor ever use contractors or temporary techs during peak times or holidays?
Who performs FUE excisions ?
Who Creates recipient channels ?
Who Sedates patients ?
Sedative used ?
Patients Per Day Situation ?
Experience with Curley + Afro Hair ?
Uses Microscopes?
Uses Loupes?
Experience with patients who would need extensive body + beard hair due to weak donor and/or extensive hair loss?
Accept diffuse thinning patients?
Post-op plan? Any in-person post-op care?
Graft insertion method? Forceps vs Pen? Instrument type? (Choi, manual, etc.)
Anything else you would like prospective patients to know?
What questions should I be asking for the next version of this survey?
Favorite hair transplant surgeon?
Price per graft of other ?
21:06 UTC
Anyone know if Shapiro has adopted Implanter Pens?
I know general wisdom is that they don't matter, but I noticed I get growth much faster with the pens. With forceps my new growth comes in at about 4 months. With the pens, some hairs don't even fall out, they just keep growing from the implant, and others keep growing out within the weeks of the transplant.
As of 2022 Shapiro was using forceps. Maybe he changed his procedure since?
00:25 UTC
Male Exosomes Hair Loss Treatment at Solve Clinics
Has anyone had the Exosomes Hair Loss Treatment at Solve Clinics? It's basically PRP with stem cell growth factors to stop shedding, thicken hair, and promote new hair growth. Please, advise.
20:55 UTC
can this be restored with Minoxidil and Finasteride
07:13 UTC
Doctor recommendations for Arizona?
I posted on https://www.reddit.com/r/HairTransplants/comments/1fbpb15/doctor_recommendations_for_arizona/ but nobody replied
I don't have the time off of work to go to another state.
18:18 UTC
Got an email for Dr John Cole disputing Joe Tillman's claims that dr Cole sent him death threats, and that police were involved. Rather, he said 'his business would die', and that he was retaliated against for bringing up the poor work of the surgeons Tillman/Spencer have on their list.
Dr John Cole stumbled upon this blurb I wrote about him.
Dr. John Cole - No recent independent reviews. edit 10-7-23, he got a visit from the police for making death threats against Joe Tillman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEX-d0heugo&t=6226s . Not that I would ever consider a guy with no independent reviews, but this is a huge red flag. What is going on this with this guy??
In his message, he said that it started when he called out a high number of repair cases from surgeons on Joe and Spencers list, and that their business would die.
If this is true, then it would be blatant deception for Joe Tillman's to called this a 'death threat', and make it seem that John threatened to kill him directly.
However, I don't know what the truth is. One of them is definitely engaging in a huge deception.
Anyone closer to the situation be able to shed some light? You can dm the mod mail.
19:40 UTC
1 year
I'm guessing because of my age it'll take closer to 2 years for max results I'm not taking the limp dick drugs either I was starting to freak out but now I see some progress
15:52 UTC
Anyone done hair transplant in the D.R?
Was thinking of doing it there because it's closer to me
01:13 UTC
What kind of patient do you wish you had more of?
Hey, question to all plastic/ cosmetic surgeons: What kind of procedures do you wish you had more of?
(is it for example one of these, that you would wish for the most: mommy makeovers, facelifts, nose jobs, cool sculpting?).
20:56 UTC
Dr Arvind paid Hairlossexperiences a bunch of money, so he lets him post a shitty video of a bullshit hairloss cure 'gene hacking biotherapy'
23:55 UTC