How Can You be Sure You Get the Hair Transplant You Paid For?

How can you be sure that you will receive all the grafts that you paid for? When a doctor says he is going to transplant 3,000 or 4,000 grafts, how can you be sure that you will not be fooled and receive less than the planned number? Is there a way to figure it out ?

This insightful answer was provided  by Dr. William Lindsey of Mclean, VA who is one of our recommended hair restoration physicians.

Several hair transplant physicians, including me, have the techs complete a worksheet during the procedure. At the end of the day, I collect the worksheets, tally up the 1s, 2s and 3s and show the results to the patient as we review all the pics taken during that day. If we are running late and the patient’s ride is waiting, we might not get to do that until day 7 when the sutures come out, but almost always we do that before the patient leaves the day of surgery. That allows the patient to know what was actually done, and also may affect the total price as well.

Counting crunches is impossible. Plus, how does the patient know that all the holes were filled; or that more than one graft were not placed in a single slit?

To some extent, trust is involved. I try to make our office as transparent as possible, but short of having a film crew film all the techs and slits closeup, there is no absolute way of proving graft count.

Getting to that basic trust factor is part of the Pre-Op evaluation that all hair transplant patients should do.

Dr. Lindsey, McLean VA

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David – aka TakingThePlunge
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