Hair loss sufferers from all over the world agonize with the many choices of hair transplant clinics, techniques, cost, and their location. Choosing the most convenient clinic over the best hair transplant clinic may not be the wisest choice a patient can make. Although it is reasonable that a person living in London would seek a hair transplant doctor in their area, many patients will experience the “pay later” syndrome, in which they regret the choice the made for hair restoration surgery, are unhappy with the results, and wind up seeking the best hair restoration doctor, regardless of location, to do further work or repair inferior work. This is not as uncommon as you may think.

When thinking of having a hair transplant, a hair loss sufferer would be wise to do some research first, not allowing the idea of location or convenience to cloud their judgement. Following, is a list of questions that would serve any would-be hair transplant patient well when trying to find the best hair transplant clinic:

  1. Is the clinic a member of professional organizations such as the IAHRS, ISHRS, or CIHRP? Membership in these hair restoration assocations indicates that a hair transplant doctor has met a baseline of criteria that any professional hair transplant clinic should follow. There are good clinics, and fair clinics included in these associations, but at least they have been evaluated and are providing safe procedures in a sound clinical environment. Don’t stop there in your research, however, as there are clinics with professional designation that provide less than than stellar results.
  2. Does the clinic have a track record of providing consistent results over time? When evaluating clinics, narrow the field to the best by doing some simple homework. Find out how long they’ve been doing hair transplant surgery. Are they doing only hair transplant surgery or do they also do other cosmetic surgical procedure? (are they specialists are wearing too many hats?).
  3. Is the clinic using widely accepted hair restoration techniques? Do they perform Follicular Unit Transplantation, which is the standard of care in the industry, or are they using bleeding edge, unproven techniques, with a spotty record of results?
  4. Does the hair transplant clinic provide proof of their claims? Any hair transplant doctor can claim they are  ”the best hair transplant clinic” but do they support this claim with documented evidence…results? Any clinic making a claim to be amongst the best should have a visual documentation of their work easily available in the form of tens of hair transplant photos and hair transplant videos. Hair transplant photos should show all angles and include close-ups. The photos should be unadorned and unenhanced, shot under natural lighting conditions without camera flash which makes results look thicker than in reality. Photos should not be shot in studios with lighting, or with fancy backgrounds, or in  fancy or exotic locations. All of these are attempts to distract are mere marketing that detract from the hair transplant. Photos are about results, so results should be the focus. Hair transplant videos should should be shot in high resolution, from mid-distance  and close-up. Mid-distance shots at 3 or 4 feet are far enough away to see the overall appearance of the result, and close-ups from 2 feet and as close as a few inches should be included to show the quality of work in detail, including the donor area. The video should show any relevant angle. If the hair transplant was of the hairline and crown, the hairline and crown should be shown. The videos should also include sections superimposed over before photos so you can see the difference in a patient’s appearance after the transplant has grown.
  5. Does the hair transplant clinic post photo, video results to hair loss forums? It’s one thing to show hair transplant photos or videos on a company website where viewers may be uneducated, but does the clinic post results to hair transplant forums where the results will be seen by seasoned patients, and peers? Would-be patients don’t always know what to look for in a hair transplant result, but many forum members have much more knowledge and discerning eyes. If a clinic does not regularly post their results to forums, why?

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