BEWARE ILLEGAL HAIR TRANSPLANT in the WORLD

Specific problems members reported include:

-Scarring

-Unnatural hairlines

-Poor hair growth

-Wrong hair direction

-Depleted donor area in the scalp leaving a bald appearanceInfections and inaccurate graft counts.

Some patients think they are getting 4000-6000 grafts when in reality they may only get half. In fact, the number of grafts is much less. In order not to make such a mistake, you should choose reliable doctors / clinics. Because it is not possible for you to count the grafts one by one during the operation.

A thin and unnatural result, unhappy patient and depleted donor area and an overall catastrophe is what you get from them.

We want others to know what is happening out there with the unlicensed practice of medicine so they can get educated and make better decision when choosing their surgeon especially in Turkey!

First main takeaway is “Do Your Research”.

Some of the risks such as blood born infections from cross contamination by inappropriately sterilized tools or patient proximity cannot be known unless or until patients are tested for them. But the following are among the risks that are currently being seen with increasing frequency:

Donor Area Overharvesting—moth eaten appearance of the donor area with extensive scarring and permanently reduced density due to the marketing technique of promising potential patients “as many grafts as possible”—but which actually result in taking too many grafts or creating too many holes which turn into scars and damages the donor hair. It is a very important detail. It will be healthier to have 2 sessions of operation rather than harvesting very high grafts in a single session.

Donor Area Necrosis: Too many punch holes placed too close together may compromise blood supply to the remaining skin, leaving areas of dead tissue that will scar with no hair.

Implanted Area Necrosis: Such a situation can happen to you if you have hair transplantation in cheap, inexperienced, non-doctor clinics.

Poor Graft Growth: This may stem from either graft waste (technicians with no oversight may not place all harvested grafts due to time constraints for the next case), or poor harvesting techniques, or improper handling techniques including allowing the grafts to dry out during placement resulting in poor growth

Recipient Area Necrosis: Too many incisions placed to deeply or too close together may compromise blood supply to the skin and result in tissue death in the recipient area

Unnatural Appearing Results: Hair transplants are best performed by a surgeon experienced in designing aesthetic hairlines, instead of by technicians who have minimal to no hairline design training, Furthermore, technicians who practice in an unsupervised setting are illustrating their propensity to work outside legal safeguards that require medical licensure, have no reputation to protect, and have little incentive to provide patients the best result. They also do not typically see patients in follow up to evaluate their results. From their perspective each patient may be just one of many having a procedure that day and their primary goal is to finish the job and move on.

Surgical Infections: In one reported instance a rapidly spreading scalp infection caused the loss of a patient’s eye; other severe scalp infections have been reported to require antibiotic therapy by a licensed medical professional

Deaths: While this procedure has a low risk of complications when properly performed, like any procedure performed with local anesthesia there is a risk of medication toxicity resulting in cardiac arrhythmia, neurologic symptoms such as seizures, and death. Although still infrequent, reports of deaths during or after a hair transplant procedure have seen an uptick in recent years, associated with inexperience or the unlicensed practice of medicine in this field.

PATIENTS SHOULD ASK THESE QUESTIONS:
Who will evaluate my hair loss and recommend a course of treatment? What is their education, training, licensure, and experience in treating hair loss?
Who will be involved in performing my surgery, what role will they play, and what is their education, training, licensure, and experience performing hair restoration surgery?
Will anyone not licensed by the state be making incisions or harvesting grafts during my surgery? If so, please identify this person, explain their specific role and why they are legally permitted to perform it.

Misleading Language. Use of the following terms and phrases in marketing by a hair restoration surgeon may mislead the public and violate various state and federal laws.

1. “Scarless surgery”

2. “No incision”

3. “No touch”

4. “No cutting”

5. “Cloning”

6. “Hair multiplication”

7. “Non-invasive”

8. “Eliminates the need for additional procedures”

9. “Pain free”

10. “Guaranteed results”

11. “Unlimited grafts or Maximum grafts”

12. “No risk”

We can say that you can trust the clinics we publish on our site.

Source: fightthefight