About Dr. Cole and hair transplant

[He-Bat]

I would like to talk abour dr. Cole. People keep talking about Cole's scars and his 1mm + punces. I am considerig Cole myself for my first hair transplant and I have been talking to his people and himself for months now. Many FUE doctors talk about their low rate scarring and small instruments. Honestly, the size of the punch/needle is determined by the size of your individual follicular units. With Cole's FUE, Cole claims you will get an average of 1 hair more with each graft as compared to a Strip procedure. This means that 1000 CIT grafts in equivalent to 500 free strip grafts.

Some follicular units containing one hair may be extracted using a smaller punch/needle then say a 4-5 hair follicular unit. Many have talked about Cole and how he can use fewer grafts and yet give you more density. To do this he has to use 1mm+ punces sometimes and that can leave scarring. It's win some and lose some situation. Dr.'s that say they only use a small punch are either 1. Transecting your large follicular units or 2. Only extracting small 1-2 hair follicular units… in which case they would have to extract twice as many grafts to get the same coverage. The only thing a smaller punch size will guarantee you is less yield and more transected grafts and yes, less scarring.

I just wanted to address this issue because I have heard so many wonder about Cole and his FUE technique and scarring. BTW, Cole was very honest to me about possible scars but if I don't plan on buzzing my hair I will rather take my changes with Cole and get more out of each graft.

 

[KP211]

I already booked a date to get a fue transplant with cole on sept 28, I looked at everybody and I think what sold me on dr cole was that he seems to get great results with fewer grafts. And I read plenty of good reviews on him and im convinced he was the best one for my first hair transplant. I was also looking into umar and ron shapiro.

 

[He-Bat]

Anyone have something more to add?

 

[Shma]

Anyone have something more to add?

I can remember some bad reviews of Dr. Cole as well on hairlosshelp etc. Isn't he very expensive too?

 

[KP211]

I looked everywhere for reviews on him going back to 2002, didnt see any bad reviews looked at all the sites . The only bad reviews I seen on him was only a few and they were by people who didnt have work done by him, they only said they read somewhere that someone wasn't happy ,never could find. All the reviews I read by people that had work done by him was very positive. Dr. cole charges 8 dollars per graft for fue, if you are willing to have work done on short notice they are willing to discount to fill the few opening's they have by a couple of dollars per graft.Im paying 6 dollars per graft because I was able to take a opening sept 28, I said oct would be better but they said they cant discount that far in advance they said I could wait untill oct but they cant guarantee that there would be any spots open that month.They also gave me 200 discount on travel if I took that date.But compared to umar, ron shapiro he is rite in line with there pricing. I just like the results he produces a little more than those guys. There are plenty of hair transplant surgeons here in pittsburgh didnt read much good on them that is why I am willing to travel to have work done.I will give you guys my honest opinion on him after im done on the 28th, im already paid up so theres no turning back now, but I been looking into this for sometime now and im pretty confident I will be in good hands

 

[Hiker]

Look around for a guy named Caronhead and another guy named Arfy. I'm not saying this is the case, but you have to consider whether negative posts are taken down.

 

[global]

To me the whole point of getting FUE is to avoid a large obvious scar and retain the ability to cut your hair very short/buzz at some time in the future if your male pattern baldness progresses.

Getting obvious scarring from a large punch seems to defeat the whole purpose of FUE to me.

You may not have any intention of buzzing your hair now, but what about in 10 years time if your loss advances?

 

[KP211]

yea I tried to look caronhead up found that he had body hair transplant to head witch was experimental at the the time I never read anything that he actually wrote himself, All i know if someone screwed up my head you guys would know about it, it wouldnt be hard to find I would post on all sites for years. I read alot of good reviews on him. I'm 37 and getting only 1200 grafts if I need more in future and wasnt satisfied with him ill just go to someone else, just hope this is all I will need untill histogen or hair multiplication comes out.

 

[KP211]

The two most recent surgeries were done with Dr. John Cole in Atlanta, with his variation on the F.U.E. technique that he calls "F.I.T." (Follicular Isolation Technique). These two surgeries accomplished much more rapid progress than the previous four Coring surgeries, and also caused much less damage than the Coring did.

Dr. Cole donated all of his time on these surgeries (as well as his staff's time) based on my financial hardship and my desperate need for corrective surgery. I estimate that Dr. Cole donated over 10 thousand dollars worth of surgery to me. I am grateful that Dr. Cole has taken an interest in my case. These were the words of arfy , the guy you mentioned. Dr cole did not screw him up. A doctor named dr carlos screwed him up and dr cole and bernstein tried to fix the damage that dr carlos did and he donated his time to do so. Seriously people who had not had any work by someone should not post anything negative, like I think I read somewhere or I heard something. If you had work done post it then whether its negative or positive. not that i read something from 2002, and I think it was cole when it was some doctor named carlos.

 

[Hiker]

Please let us know how Arfy's work with Cole turned out. I think you will be unable to find a single post from Arfy discussing his result.

Look up another poster named Will Work 4 Hair on Hair Loss Help, if you're interested. You should make your own judgments based on publicly available information.

 

[KP211]

no I couldnt find the end results, he probably had the wost hair transplant I ever seen by dr carlos. They had to pull out those big plugs and stitch.All I read that he donated his time to try and fix.Im not saying that there might not big a few unhappy customers out there I'm just saying that all the reviews i read were positive and I spent a lot of time looking around. I looked up plenty of other companies bosely being one of them you can easily find hundreds of bad reviews on them, if its like trying to find a needle in a haystack then im fine with that dr cole has plenty of good reviews and I even called a few people who had work done by him they couldnt be happier.He is a well known pioneer in hair transplantation and I am confident I will be in good hands

 

[captain_que]

Did you consider dr Feller?

 

[TA45]

Remember, take pictures pictures pictures from all angles pre-sugery. We would love to compare your pre surgery pics with post. So many guys on here go get a hair transplant but then forget about the guys that were in their shoes, meaning trying to decide if hair transplant is right for them and what Dr. is right for them. Even tak emultiple pics of your donar area really short so you can compare potential scarring. We do appreciate it and remember, you will feel good about not only helping yourself, but helping your balding buds I wish you the best of luck, keep us posted! Don't forget about us!

 

[KP211]

Yes I did consider Dr Keller, I just think Dr cole does better work than him, plus I can tell he had a hair transplant, all the hair transplants I seen dr cole do looked very natural.
Over the past couple of months, Dr. Cole has been using his new motorized equipment,
His new equipment is allowing safer extraction of grafts using smaller and smaller punches.This new equipment is what he will be using on me, the only thing I was concerned with was donor scarring because I like to keep my hair short,He also uses acell and prp on donor area and recipient area for faster healing and reduces chance for scarring, I choose acell because its a lot cheaper, I scar well I had plenty of stitches over the years above my eye and other places and you cant notice I had stitches.I think people are different when it comes to healing and the way you scar. Anyway I will show before and after photos and will keep you guys posted over the next few months and over the year to keep you guys updated because I know how stress full it can be choosing a surgeon. I know boss only posted for the first few weeks after he had work done with cole, I would of liked more information from him, but he just disappeared. Like I said I think there are a hand full of good surgeons out there and I looked at them all and just think that cole was best fit for me, like I said I will keep you guys updated so in the future you can make a better decision on who you might want to use.

 

[shears]

I will be seeing Dr. Cole for a 3rd procedure. I am 100% behind non-strip procedures after having one done many years ago. I think the damage is just too much to make it worth it, especially with FUE available.

Dr. Cole has made very natural hairlines and it's another reason I wanted to see him originally 7-8 years ago. He's very accomodating and is serious about his work. I've not heard of any negative reports about his work. As was said before, it was mostly from people who never had work done with him and didn't support any evidence. That is my experience.

 

[KP211]

thanks shears yea im seeing him Tuesday for my first hair transplant, i am looking forward to it. Yea I wouldnt even have a hair transplant done if all was available was strip, I seen film of strip and it looks pretty brutal.

 

[neuromet]

See this post by Dr. Feller about Dr. Cole. When one well respected surgeon is calling out another, I have to take it seriously.

As far as the issue, though, I can't say I fully understand. How would one be transparent? Invite other doctors to watch?

 

[KP211]

what do you mean feller called out cole? anyway had my first hair transplant with cole yesterday all went well they were very friendly and dr cole was very personable. I had 1432 fue grafts done. I was very surprised how painless it was. I will post some pics tomorrow.

 

[neuromet]

Sorry, I left out the link:
http://www.hairestorationetwork.com/e ... nions.html

Feller's is the 3rd comment.

 

[KP211]

yea those were pretty general statements about fue doctors doing mega sessions I dont know if cole ever claimed to do mega sessions, All I know is that hes been doing fue since 2002 and 90% of his work since 2003 has been fue. I wasnt even considering strip I thought about it for a minute and thought I would rather shave my head before I would let someone cut a big chunk of my scalp out with a scalpel. I read alot of horror stories of sum nasty scars. Plus look at fellers own hairline it doesnt look natural to me and I would be hesitant to go to a doctor whos hairline in my opinion doesnt look natural, the guy who was helping cole do my hair transplant had work done by cole in 93 via strip and to be honest when I first seen him I would of never thought he had a balding problem his hairline looked great. Anyway he did over 1400 fue grafts on me and it took almost 8 hours and just a few short breaks. I really dont know how many grafts consist in a mega session not sure wasnt interested in it. I figure if I need more work done after a year I would go to cole to get more work done but hopefully I wont need too. My donor area is healing great after just 5 days you can barely notice anything, I been using neosporin on the donor area ever day and biotin spray on the top of my head in the recipent area. It was a very painless procedure I would say my *** hurt more than anything from sitting in the chair so long but didnt complain,that is something I definitely didnt want them to rush and they didnt. The only other doctors I was seriously considering other than cole was umar and dr ron shapiro.