What do you guys think of ADvanced hair

[KiLLuMiNaTi]

ive been there and trust me they are the biggest scammers if them all...for there laser regrowth treatment which costs $4800 they put you under a fake laser that isnt scientifically proven and they make you use rogaine twice a day aswell as giving you a vitamin pill made by blackmores that they claim blocks dht ROFL all this for $4800 why are these guys allowed to operate when its so obvious they are scamming the public?? it makes me angry

 

[KiLLuMiNaTi]

if you just go and see your local GP you will save yourself the $4800 ..and the spokesmen they have for there bullshit hair restoration are shane warne and mark geyer the two most untrustable assholes ever...tell me who would seriously trust anything that came out of shane warnes mouth?? would you trust him??

 

[hair4now]

Advanced Hair

I went there in 1994, I was 22 at the time and I thought I would try it as Greg Matthews had just got his 'new hair' from them. From the advertising I thought he had a hair transplant. Everything about this place is misleading.

This is easily the most traumatic experience in my hair loss experience. I made an appointment and on my visit to Advanced Hair I was first shown a 30 minute video - the first 25 minutes were just about guys who had been to Advanced Hair and how much better their life was (and included Greg Matthews himself) and the last 5 minutes were about the procedure - which wasn't entirely correct. The video gave the impression that they placed some sort of fine membrane on your head then weaved hair through it - i.e. the strand by strand technique. This part of the video lacked detail.
Once the video had finished the consultant had a chat and told me I would be completely bald in no time at all and there were no lotions & potions out there that could help me and my only option was Advanced Hair. With me not completely having my wits about me I decided to give it a go. The consultant then wrapped some plastic wrap around my head and applied a lot of tape to it to make a mould of my head. He then took about 10 hair samples from my head, I then paid about $2000 and was told my 'unit' would be available in about 6 weeks.

Six weeks later and I was back at Advanced Hair ready to get my 'unit' installed. The top of my head was shaved by a hairdresser, then she got this 'unit' which in fact was a toupee and placed it on my head - it had long hair down past my shoulders. She then spent the next hour or so threading the hair on the side of my head through the toupee and binding it on with some sort of tiny metallic clips. After the toupee was bound on, the hair was cut. I was then told I would need to come back and get it re bound in about six months as the hair on the side of my head grew and the 'unit' loosens.

The next morning I had a sudden realisation - I’ve got a damn toupee attached to my head and I've got to go to work - what the f*&k am I going to do? I went to work and kept a low profile - thankfully no one noticed. Later in the week I went back to Advanced Hair and told them to remove it. The consultant managed to talk me out of it saying it was just teething problems and to give it a chance. I wore it for another week - keeping a low profile and avoiding as many people as possible. I had a few close calls and the pressure got too much and so I went back to Advanced Hair and insisted they remove it, which they did. They also shaved the sides and back of my head to match the top. The next 2 months were tough while my hair was slowly growing back.

I’ve made other mistakes in my hair loss experience, but going to Advanced Hair was easily the worst and most traumatic mistake I have made.

 

[Boru]

Re: Advanced Hair

I went there in 1994, I was 22 at the time and I thought I would try it as Greg Matthews had just got his 'new hair' from them. From the advertising I thought he had a hair transplant. Everything about this place is misleading.

This is easily the most traumatic experience in my hair loss experience. I made an appointment and on my visit to Advanced Hair I was first shown a 30 minute video - the first 25 minutes were just about guys who had been to Advanced Hair and how much better their life was (and included Greg Matthews himself) and the last 5 minutes were about the procedure - which wasn't entirely correct. The video gave the impression that they placed some sort of fine membrane on your head then weaved hair through it - i.e. the strand by strand technique. This part of the video lacked detail.
Once the video had finished the consultant had a chat and told me I would be completely bald in no time at all and there were no lotions & potions out there that could help me and my only option was Advanced Hair. With me not completely having my wits about me I decided to give it a go. The consultant then wrapped some plastic wrap around my head and applied a lot of tape to it to make a mould of my head. He then took about 10 hair samples from my head, I then paid about $2000 and was told my 'unit' would be available in about 6 weeks.

Six weeks later and I was back at Advanced Hair ready to get my 'unit' installed. The top of my head was shaved by a hairdresser, then she got this 'unit' which in fact was a toupee and placed it on my head - it had long hair down past my shoulders. She then spent the next hour or so threading the hair on the side of my head through the toupee and binding it on with some sort of tiny metallic clips. After the toupee was bound on, the hair was cut. I was then told I would need to come back and get it re bound in about six months as the hair on the side of my head grew and the 'unit' loosens.

The next morning I had a sudden realisation - I’ve got a damn toupee attached to my head and I've got to go to work - what the f*&k am I going to do? I went to work and kept a low profile - thankfully no one noticed. Later in the week I went back to Advanced Hair and told them to remove it. The consultant managed to talk me out of it saying it was just teething problems and to give it a chance. I wore it for another week - keeping a low profile and avoiding as many people as possible. I had a few close calls and the pressure got too much and so I went back to Advanced Hair and insisted they remove it, which they did. They also shaved the sides and back of my head to match the top. The next 2 months were tough while my hair was slowly growing back.

I’ve made other mistakes in my hair loss experience, but going to Advanced Hair was easily the worst and most traumatic mistake I have made.

Thanks for your input on this. I went through exactly the same misleading procedure with Advanced in 1999, I tried to sue them when I realised I had been ripped off (I had a bad reaction to the glue, which burned my sensitive skin), but the owner of the franchise committed suicide before I could expose him. My lawyer said I couldn't sue the London company, because it was just a branch too. I put it down to a hard lesson, this is the kind of business that criminal types tend to like. No honest business person would set out to deliberately mislead clients who really need counselling first. Since then information on finasteride and various potentially helpful topicals has become more readily available. The superglue toupee option is no longer the last resort. Here is my postive feedback on the subject. If you, like me, were desperate enough to try the sticky wig, you will stop at nothing to find the real cure, which seems a real possibility now. No doubt companies like Advanced will sell anything with a vague possibility of usefulness, and we must be vigilant.
Having discovered my own progressively modestly successful combination treatment, I look forward to the day when I can tell my story on tv, and expose the sticky wig sellers for what they are. Havng made my mark in a different field of human rights, the right to hair is my new goal.