Cheers Hairhoper, it's a shame when people like bonkerstonker have to resort to making personal attacks when someone challenges their opinion. The idea that I was lazy in choosing a UK surgeon is just daft, I think I made my selection process quite pubic on here and my website. Also the whole Spex thing he kept bringing up, well that was weird,
I think I praised the work Spex does, despite my personal experience not being very good. I'm sure even Spex himself will appreciate honest feedback about his site from people who make a living from such things over the views of people who seem content to blow smoke up his backside.
It's curious that it's a similar blinkered behaviour you see from people with all kinds of firm beliefs that have a shaky foundation (religion, herbal treatments etc.). It's also understandable that people like to back their surgeon, so people will happily attack other surgeons and the people that go to them (again, think religion, football teams etc.).
Years ago the larger US and Canadian clinics really were the best in the world, they pioneered the procedures and were obviously better at them than other surgeons. As a result they have had a very lucrative time capitalising on the almost evangelical support of internet forums.
Hair transplant techniques though, like everything, are skills which can be learned and over time others catch up. Today, there is very little between the skill of the best surgeons from all over the world, regardless of whether they are in the UK or North America.
Most of the people who are negative about every other surgeon except the handful of North American ones are basing their views on work done 7, 8 or even 10 years ago; that's about as valid as saying the best British computers are crap because the Sinclair ZX81 wasn't as good as the Commodore 64. I've met *so* many other transsexuals who have had work done from clinics all over the world, and I honestly have not seen anyone have a bad job from *anywhere* that was done in the last few years. Dr. Rogers himself told me just a few weeks ago that he's not had to perform a repair procedure in years.
To be completely honest, some of the best work I've seen is not even by a recognised hair transplant specialist and is being performed as a *bonus* procedure from a Thai FFS surgeon.
The most important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein