Invisible Bosley Hair Restoration Scar

91 Days After Bosley Hair Restoration procedure

Today I got my second haircut since undergoing the Bosley hair restoration procedure nearly three months ago. Thank goodness – I mean, I really needed a haircut.  But the important thing is that, as you can see, the scar is not visible at all.

Many people ask me about the scar, and I think it’s a very important topic – one that a lot of guys have questions about. If you get a hair restoration procedure, you will have a scar on your scalp where they take the donor tissue for the follicular extraction. The reality is, as long as your hair is ½” long (or longer), the scar will not be visible. You can see this is true by looking at photos of the back of my head 2 days after I got my restoration surgery – mind you, this is two days after the procedure! I got my first “post-Bosley” haircut back on day 16. At that point, I got my hair cut very short on purpose – I wanted to make sure that everyone could see exactly where the scar was on my head. However, if you look at today’s photos, or the photos I posted on day 43 (which shows how the scar looked when the hair grew in after my first haircut), you’ll see that as long as the hair is grown out past ½”, the scar is invisible. It’s actually pretty impressive how my Bosley surgeon (Dr. Winans) was able to suture the donor area together in such a way that the scar can’t be seen.

Comments

[KyleM]

All of these bad comments that I am seeing about bosley have to be people that have not done the procedure that are just upset that they can not afford to do it. I have done the procedure 2 times and am absolutely happy with the results. Also the staff and the doctors were great.

[Marios]

I am writing this letter to inform that I have been a victim of Hair Transplant Medical Malpractice by Herbert S. Feinberg, MD. After 4 years and over $8,000 dollars spend on my hair transplant the results are terrible. I try to contact Dr. Feinberg but he refused to talk to me or give me a refund for the hair transplant he performed. I also have a personal website where I post photos of my hair transplant at www.HairMdProblem.com I am writing this letter to inform The American Board of Plastic Surgery, Inc, American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery, International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, American Hair Loss Association, and The American Board of Dermatology, Inc, I need your help to contact Dr. Feinberg and suspend his license because other people might be victims of his malpractice. If nothing has been done in 60 days I will contact MSNBC and Fox News to complain about the above mention society and lock of interest in medical malpractice and terrible doctors who perform hair transplant.

[Seth]

Thanks for the posts Frank and Rodrigo. I have to say, I find it curious when I read posts like this on other hair restoration forums.

It doesn't add up. Bosley is the largest practice in the world. They do more hair restorations than anyone else. If their work was bad, how do they stay in business? Their marketing materials say they have performed almost 200,000 hair restorations. 200,000!

This is just one guy's perspective, but I don't see how you do 200,000 bad hair restorations and word of mouth doesn't get out. When you have a hair restoration procedure, you are essentially a walking billboard for that company for the rest of your life. It just doesn't make sense that Bosley has performed 200,000 bad hair restorations over 32 years and is still the largest medical practice dedicated to hair restoration. My boss always says that companies don't stay small by choice. On the flip side, I'd argue that you don't become an industry leading medical practice by doing bad work.

Frank and Rodrigo, of course, are entitled to their opinions, and in the spirit of full-disclosure and honesty, I'd like to simply say I have seen first had the quality of work Bosley physicians perform on a daily
basis. Personally, I think that such claims of poor, shoddy work or unethical marketing efforts are unwarranted and unfair.

Anyway, this blog is intended to describe my story and my experience. I clearly can't speak for every Bosley patient, but hopefully my restoration can be a learning experience for others considering the procedure, whether at Bosley or another practice. Hopefully, we can keep the Comments area constructive and educational.

Ps - Frank, Rodrigo...Are you guys roommates? Your comments came from identical IP addresses, which seems bizzare. I just hope you are not trying to mislead our readers.

[Rodrigo]

I think that it's not an easy choice to get one of these. So much depends on how much hair is gone, how much hair you have on the back of your head to move, whether your hair is thick, wavy, what color it is, the color of your scalp. Depending on those variables and lots of other ones, it could come out OK, or freakish. These Bosley people got busted because they do these procedures on almost anyone and say it's going to be OK, they hire salespeople to do consultations who aren't even doctors and pay them commissions.

If you don't have much hair on your head, shaving the hair short is still the best way to go -- it's the best aesthetic option. These hair transplants tend to work only if you have a lot of hair in the back and not too much space you want to cover on top.

Also, it's my understanding that Bosley charges a lot more than other places and part of this is because they spend 30% of their revenue on advertising.

What do you know about this?

[Frank]

Bosley had his medical license suspended several times and he's been sued by several states for deceptive marketing, misleading clients they evidently have two waiting rooms, one for new patients and one for existing patients so that the new patients won't see what the work actually looks like.

The attorney general's lawsuit noted that the reason for the separate waiting rooms is that many of the before and after photos are doctored, Bosley employees confirmed that the company used make up, dark lighting, etc. to make it look better than it was and then even once posted an after picture of a person who never received a procedure.

Have you heard anything about this?