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How does this forum decide who the recommended UK HT clinics are?

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Ryan1234

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Hi, I`m new here. I have typical male pattern baldness and have been looking in this forum for various UK HT clinics to check out. As far as I can tell there are only three in the UK that this forum recommends. One in London, one in Manchester and one in Scotland.

I`ve seen many more advertised online and in newspapers, and I am curious as to why this forum only recommends three. How does it go about deciding who these three should be? Are the forum's moderators HT surgeons or is the decision based on forum members' positive experiences or some other method?

Not being a wealthy person, I would like to find an HT clinic that didn`t require that I spend £10,000 upwards for an HT or FUE. Many of the clinics that are not recommended in this forum don`t charge as much and having looked at their before and after photos, I can`t see why they are not recommended by this forum.

I`m new here, and so I am aware that some forum members might think that I work for one of these other clinics, or am just here to troll. I can assure you that I am neither. Just genuinely curious as to what criteria the forum uses to base its recommendations on.
 
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Ryan1234

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By recommending I mean listing only three UK clinics in its Clinic Profiles section:

https://www.hairtransplantwebsite.com/doctors/

See a map of UK that the site shows with the three clinics it lists:

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It seems to me that the omission of other UK clinics is a value judgment, unless the three clinics listed are sponsors of the forum. I could be wrong, though. Just curious as to what the situation is.
 
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Admin

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Dear Ryan.
As stated above, the forum does not recommend clinics.
The map you have posted is in the process of being updated but does show the rough locations of the clinics. Nowhere does it say these are the only clinics in the UK.
This is a forum, not a directory, therefor no omission, only the participating clinics are listed.
There is 4 uk clinics listed here.
DHI, Farjo, Maitland and Vinci.
You will find the forum offers support to patients from any clinic, listed here or not.
You seem more concerned about why certain clinics aren't listed. If you are suffering from male pattern baldness, please share a few more details about your situation. If you've had some consultations, let us know what they advised. Maybe add some images so we can see what you're dealing with, other members can they give their opinion. Check out the many patient posted results, get involved, support them, ask them questions.





 
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Dazzster26

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Dear Ryan

Thanks for posting please dont rush into getting any HT unless you have done plenty Research, there are some Clinics out their manipulating peoples circumstances using false documentation and pictures taken from other Clinics and lying , be careful that is all I am saying you do not have to pay as you state ten thousand pounds and upwards for a HT but you have to research and get it right with the Clinic and Dr.
wishing you all the best

Daz
 
bullitnut

bullitnut

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Hi Ryan this forum is different to the other forums out there in that it has never recommended any clinic to anyone. It's all about people experiences hence the name "hairloss experiences"

Just because you see a clinic advertised on here it doesn't mean that there aren't other reputable clinics out there.
All it means is they choose not to partake in the forum for whatever reason (their choice).

However one of the reason the clinics on here stay on here is because their results speak for themselves and for them it's an excellent source of advertising.

If a clinic took part on the forum and displayed terrible results week in week out then the forum members would likely express how bad they were and the clinic would loose credibility and possibly business (which is why you won't find clinics like KSL or the British hair clinic on here)......therefore from that alone the clinics on here are obviously good clinics as they show consistent stellar results, participate in the forum with members and prove themselves to be among the very best.

Other not so good clinics might not be able to do this as their results maybe aren't as good, or aren't as consistent, or their staff aren't as able to answer question posed by members of the public online.

If a clinic is reputable, confident with their work, ethical and experienced then why shouldn't they want to show this online to potential patients if they desire.
That being said Of course there will still be other world class clinics that for whatever reason choose not to advertise on line and that's their perogative.... doesn't make them a bad clinic just one that's not interested in this type of advertising.
Welcome to the forum by the way dude;)
I'm sure you don't have to spend 10k to get a good result, would love to hear more about your current hair situation pal.
Take care BN
 
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Ryan1234

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Admin wrote:
Dear Ryan.
As stated above, the forum does not recommend clinics.
The map you have posted is in the process of being updated but does show the rough locations of the clinics. Nowhere does it say these are the only clinics in the UK.
This is a forum, not a directory, therefor no omission, only the participating clinics are listed.
There is 4 uk clinics listed here.
DHI, Farjo, Maitland and Vinci.
You will find the forum offers support to patients from any clinic, listed here or not.
You seem more concerned about why certain clinics aren't listed. If you are suffering from male pattern baldness, please share a few more details about your situation. If you've had some consultations, let us know what they advised. Maybe add some images so we can see what you're dealing with, other members can they give their opinion. Check out the many patient posted results, get involved, support them, ask them questions.
Thanks for explaining things.

I`m on the Norwood 5 scale. I live in Warrington, not far from Manchester, so the only clinic that is listed in your forum near to me is the Farjo Clinic in Manchester. But they charge around £10,000 or so from what I`ve heard and I couldn`t afford that. And going by some of the post-op photos here of Fargo patients who have had 3,500 plus graphs implanted, when the hair has fully grown back it doesn`t look as much as that. I read somewhere else in this forum a few years ago that Farjo tends to be very conservative with how many grafts he does in one operation. If that is true, and I went to him, it would mean I would have to spend another £10,000 on a second operation, and as I said I can`t even afford a first one. And this is probably the case for all the other clinics in the forum's list of clinics.

So my only choice is to go to a cheaper clinic. I found one in Liverpool (not far from Warrington) that charges less than £10,000 and more like £3,000, I think according to a post in this forum a couple of years ago. The post was a positive review of this clinic, and the poster photos of his post-op and follow up hair growth were good, as good as the ones from posters who went to Farjo and the other surgeons mentioned in this forum. But the clinic has been criticised here because its patients all have low hairlines after the HT operations there. From the clinic's photos on its site, this seems to be the case, but apart from that the HT they did on these patients looked good to me, they seemed to have more hair after than many of the patients in post-op Farjo Clinic photos. Of course, the Liverpool clinic could be using photos from more reputable HT clinics, but I don`t think so, simply because of the presence of low hairlines in the photos, which the more reputable clinic's photos wouldn`t have.

So my only choice is between the Farjo Clinic and the Liverpool clinic, and as I am not wealthy, and am not prepared to travel to London or Scotland (where the other clinics on your list are) and possibly have to book a hotel room for an overnight stay after the rigours of the HT op, I have to choose the Liverpool clinic.

Given that the Liverpool clinic has been criticised here for low hairlines, I would tell them not to give me one presumably an HT patient is allowed to make such a decision.
 
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Ryan1234

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bullitnut wrote:
Hi Ryan this forum is different to the other forums out there in that it has never recommended any clinic to anyone. It's all about people experiences hence the name "hairloss experiences"

Just because you see a clinic advertised on here it doesn't mean that there aren't other reputable clinics out there.
All it means is they choose not to partake in the forum for whatever reason (their choice).

However one of the reason the clinics on here stay on here is because their results speak for themselves and for them it's an excellent source of advertising.

If a clinic took part on the forum and displayed terrible results week in week out then the forum members would likely express how bad they were and the clinic would loose credibility and possibly business (which is why you won't find clinics like KSL or the British hair clinic on here)......therefore from that alone the clinics on here are obviously good clinics as they show consistent stellar results, participate in the forum with members and prove themselves to be among the very best.

Other not so good clinics might not be able to do this as their results maybe aren't as good, or aren't as consistent, or their staff aren't as able to answer question posed by members of the public online.

If a clinic is reputable, confident with their work, ethical and experienced then why shouldn't they want to show this online to potential patients if they desire.
That being said Of course there will still be other world class clinics that for whatever reason choose not to advertise on line and that's their perogative.... doesn't make them a bad clinic just one that's not interested in this type of advertising.
Welcome to the forum by the way dude;)
I'm sure you don't have to spend 10k to get a good result, would love to hear more about your current hair situation pal.
Take care BN
Thanks. I was just curious about the lack of UK HT clinics on the map. It's a pity more UK clinics who are reputable don't come forward more. You would think they would, if only to promote themselves.
 
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Ryan1234

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Dazzster26 wrote:
Dear Ryan

Thanks for posting please dont rush into getting any HT unless you have done plenty Research, there are some Clinics out their manipulating peoples circumstances using false documentation and pictures taken from other Clinics and lying , be careful that is all I am saying you do not have to pay as you state ten thousand pounds and upwards for a HT but you have to research and get it right with the Clinic and Dr.
wishing you all the best

Daz
Thanks Daz.
 
bullitnut

bullitnut

4 awesome repairs with SMG
Hi, I`m new here. I have typical male pattern baldness


Now you have me confused. In your first post you said your new here. Then further down the thread, you said you saw a post a few years ago in here about a clinic in Liverpool?
If the clinic your referring to is the Skin and hair clinic then be careful dude as they did Kyle Christie's hairline and it's terrible IMO.
I disagree with your comment's regarding Farjo, they have shown many great results over the years with very good density,

If some of their results have aired on the conservative side then that's because they are ethical and have done this due to possible progression based on Family history etc....this isn't a bad thing...shows they are ethical and experienced.
 
bullitnut

bullitnut

4 awesome repairs with SMG
Any clinic in the UK that charges £3000 for 3500 grafts I'd be careful dude
 
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Ryan1234

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bullitnut wrote:
Ryan1234 wrote:
Hi, I`m new here. I have typical male pattern baldness

Now you have me confused. In your first post you said your new here. Then further down the thread, you said you saw a post a few years ago in here about a clinic in Liverpool?
If the clinic your referring to is the Skin and hair clinic then be careful dude as they did Kyle Christie's hairline and it's terrible IMO.
I disagree with your comment's regarding Farjo, they have shown many great results over the years with very good density,

If some of their results have aired on the conservative side then that's because they are ethical and have done this due to possible progression based on Family history etc....this isn't a bad thing...shows they are ethical and experienced.
I mean I'm "new" in that I just registered yesterday. I've been a lurker for a while.

Yes, I mean the Skin and Hair Clinic.

Kyle Christie`s hairline is too low, as I said that seems to be the style most young trendy men think is normal due to media hype celebrating luxurious hair on male models etc. Not many of them have probably done any research on what a good HT should look like.

That aside, I would tell the clinic to not give me one of those hairlines. From what I have seen of their post-op photos, the only thing wrong with the clinic is its hairline design at least in those photos that have been criticised here. See this selection of photos on their site:

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Most don`t seem to have low hairlines and look as good as those from more reputable clinics. It all depends on what you can afford, though, and I simply can`t afford the best clinic. Besides, as someone mentioned earlier here, not all the best HT clinics come forward to promote themselves here, so knowing how many other bests are out there is difficult.

I think being too conservative with graft implants when someone has paid £10,000 for an HT is not really ethical either.
 
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Ryan1234

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Here's another photo of the same person from a different angle. It looks ok from this angle. Are there any photos on the clinic's site that you think are decent? I found some better than others, but not all bad. As I said, I am not a wealthy man, and have to make tough choices.

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Ryan1234

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I don`t know the FUE punch size. Presumably, you think it should be smaller than it appears. I`m no expert on FUE but I expect that the clinic has a range of punch hole sizes available. If I go there I can always ask them to use a smaller one on my hairline, like they seem to have done on other photos of their patients.

Like I asked before, what photos from their site do you think show good or acceptable HT results?
 
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Ryan1234

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Aerospace wrote:
Ryan, the guys on here are offering advice based on their own experiences. You`d be wise to take it onboard.

I appreciate that, but no one so far has given me any advice other than they think that two patients of the Liverpool clinic have had hairlines done that are not acceptable. I could find two patients of any HT clinic that I think the results of were not acceptable. There were many criticisms of the Farjo Clinic about 7 years ago on another hair forum I used to lurk on, but it is seen as a good clinic now. Maybe clinics can have learning curves, so to speak. The newer ones more than others. Maybe the Liverpool clinic is on that curve now.
 
bullitnut

bullitnut

4 awesome repairs with SMG
The fact is the hairline is not only two low...it's pluggy in appearance and looks totally alien like. If your willing to risk this look then good luck to you dude we can only advise. If you want to have to brush your hair forward to disguise the hairline or wear headscarves a lot like he does then that's cool buddy

What i dont get though is why the constant critisms of Farjo....what have they done to you? I don't understand it your contemplating going to the skin and hair clinic but have bashed a world class clinic at least 3 times for know apparent reason?

Anyway I truly wish you well and if it comes good I will be the first to congratulate you dude as honeslty nothing will make me happier it did.....if not I'm sure us lot on here will be happy to help you in any way we can.


Good luck pal keep us posted.
 
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Ryan1234

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I don`t think it looks alien-like, well his hairstyle maybe!

I have no particular problem with Fargo. I only mention him because geographically he is the only other HT surgeon nearest to where I live other than the Liverpool clinic. So it is either him or them I could go to, and as I am poor it can`t be him.


I just came across a positive review of the Liverpool clinic on another HT forum:




The surgeon who did his HT (Jyotsna Kumari) is a member of The British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery:

http://www.bahrs.co.uk/


A society that Farjo is a member of, and she is also a member of The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery:


http://www.ishrs.org/


Here is her page there:


http://www.ishrs.org/users/doctorjyotsna


Farjo is also a member of this. Here`s his page there:


http://www.ishrs.org/users/drbessam


Do you think all her HT results are bad? Which ones, if any, do you think are acceptable?
 
bullitnut

bullitnut

4 awesome repairs with SMG
Just because someone is a member of an organisation doesn't mean they are a good doctor...you don't need to pass any exams to join that association.
As for her results it's hard to say which are good as most of the pics on her website are very blurry and don't expose the hairline.
This is why people are suspicious because we have seen excellent photos of kyle's with him being in the public eye.And it shows his result to be poor.
If her pics were better then people might forgive the Kyle result.
She should do some videos....I'd ask her to meet patients in person so you know.



 
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Ryan1234

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Here is more information about her qualifications:

Postgraduate Training in Dermatology (King's College London)
Masters in Dermatology(MSc) University of Hertfordshire
Member of International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS)
Member of British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery(BAHRS)
Member of European College of Aesthetic Medicine and Surgery (ECAMS)
Member of British Association of Cosmetic Doctors (BACD)
Member of British Association of Body Sculpting (BABS)
Member of General Medical Council with full Registration and Licence to Practice


Previews employment:

Medical Lecturer at Lowestoft College
Medical lecturer at Southampton University Hospitals NHS TrustMedical Doctor (Various positions)


Education:

Kings College London (University of London)
Post Graduate Training in the Study of Clinical Dermatology

University of Hertfordshire
Master of Science (MSc) in Dermatology Skills and Treatment

KLE University
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS)
 
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Ryan1234

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bullitnut wrote:
Just because someone is a member of an organisation doesn't mean they are a good doctor...you don't need to pass any exams to join that association.
As for her results it's hard to say which are good as most of the pics on her website are very blurry and don't expose the hairline.
This is why people are suspicious because we have seen excellent photos of kyle's with him being in the public eye.And it shows his result to be poor.
If her pics were better then people might forgive the Kyle result.
She should do some videos....I'd ask her to meet patients in person so you know.
The main thing for me is that she is "kosha". What is seen as an acceptable HT is largely subjective anyway. I've seen lots of photos of "good" HT surgeons' patients whose HTs don't look that good.
 
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Donald

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1. "why this forum only recommends three" - the forum doesn ´t recommend clinics

2. "I can ´t see why they are not recommended by this forum" - the forum doesn ´t recommend clinics

3. "I would like to find an HT clinic that didn ´t require that I spend £10,000 upwards" then research, if you don ´t like the work of what you see or the price look for others. Why don ´t you contact the clinics not here and ask them?

4. "forum members might think I work for one of these other clinics, or am just a troll." - if you work for one you are not doing a good job and making them look bad ethically anyway, if you are not a troll you are doing a good job at sounding like one. When people start to protest without being questioned red flags fly.

Posting lists of credentials or boards they are members of, makes you no better than all the clinics that boast about being the best and having the latest techniques, all there to just blindside what is important. If you like the results and you like the price choose a clinic and when you have it done then show off your result and help them and others by your experience.

Other than that I ´m not sure what your point is if you don ´t work for a clinic or not a troll or just have a gripe about life or this forum. And this is written by a real person that normally just sits and watches.
 
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