Gillenator Re: Leavitt
Gillenator,
No,the scarring wasn't that bad really,I just was very disappointed by how mediocre the results were. I remember being excited when the hairs started popping in and then I noticed how pluggy some of the 4 and 5 hair grafts looked. I thought technology was way past the old plug look,and became more and more upset with the results I'd gotten.
At that time,1999,the Orlando area MHR office seemed to be doing many procedures a day,Leavitt would just pop in every now and then while the techs placed the grafts. It was just an assembly line basically,designed to bring in as much money as possible. They even had the nerve to try to charge me an extra $240 for an additional 30 grafts they placed. When I told the guy I was signed up to pay for 400 grafts,he snidely replied "Well,we can take them out if you want" or something to that effect.
I remember disliking the hairline and overall look so much that I was getting my haircut as often as once a week! It was at that length only that I could somewhat live with how it looked. Luckily the stock market was cranking in early 2000,and I took a chance based on some results I'd seen from Pat from hairtransplantnetwork.com,swallowed my fear and scheduled a procedure with Shapiro in March 2000.
The Shapiro procedure was a pleasure all the way through,nothing like the experience I had with MHR. Not only did Dr. Shapiro take a day from his vacation to do the surgery,but HE spent about 8 to 9 hours working on me,I was the ONLY patient of the day,something I learned was the norm with him,and very impressive. The guy was not only a super person,but a great surgeon. I've gotten so many compliments on how natural the procedure looks,from the people I've told of course. I'll need one more procedure it seems,to thicken behind the hairline,but the transplanted hair that I do have now looks great.