Finding the right hair replacement surgeon to facilitate your specific needs can be a bit of a challenge considering all of the options that are available. Whether you are suffering from a genetic condition such as male pattern baldness (alopecia), traction alopecia (pulling the hair back too tightly) or any other form of hair loss, you should be aware of the different replacement procedures that are currently available. There are 4 things you want to be sure about before selecting a hair replacement surgeon to perform the procedure.
1) Their training and credentials – anytime you are considering a hair replacement procedure, you want to ask the physician or surgeon what type of formal training they have had as well as seeing their credentials. Remember that you are going to want to interview 5 or 6 before making your final decision and this is the first step to take once you have made your list of possible candidates for performing the procedure.
2) The surgeon’s amount of experience – has he/she just opened their practice or have they been performing hair replacement procedures for a while already? You’ll want to find out the years of experience they have under their belts as well as how many procedures they have performed. Additionally, you might want to dig a little deeper and find out what their former patients have to say about the results they experienced.
3) The environment that the physician practices in – is the physician the only hair replacement practitioner at the particular clinic you are investigating or is there a licensed and certified team of physicians? Also, you want to ensure that you will be with that same physician from start to finish and not get bounced around from one to another like you would encounter at a traditional HMO.
4) Your comfort level with the physician – one of the things that we always advise people to take into consideration is their gut feeling about the physician and the facility that they operate in. Make sure that you ask the physician all the questions that you can come up with regarding the entire procedure. Did they willingly advise you against hair replacement surgery if it wasn’t necessary or did they hard-sell you on it? The bottom line is that if you don’t feel comfortable with this person and their facilities, then you should just keep shopping around.
Photo via Marco Bellucci
