This is a case study of a patient who had a bad experience from a clinic operating in Malaysia. Without doing proper research, the unsuspecting patient, a Malaysian-Chinese man, aged 27, fell victim to a bad hair transplant. The patient was looking for a hair restoration surgery due to his receding hairline and was promised a successful result. Unfortunately, the …
See this video of Ricardo Mejia, MD interviewing Shady El-Maghraby, MD, MSc, FISHRS on various case studies of hair transplant repairs. As a hair restoration surgeon in Egypt, Dr. El-Maghraby is getting requests for repairs on a weekly basis. Learn more about ISHRS World Hair Transplant Repair Day on 11.11, where doctors will perform pro bono surgery for victims of …
Recently, Harry Wallop, a consumer journalist wrote an article for the Daily Mail after traveling to Istanbul, Turkey for an investigative report. Dr. Greg Williams, MBBS, FISHRS and BAHRS President interviewed him after he published the article and below are his answers. Had you considered having a hair transplant prior to writing the article? Very vaguely a few years ago …
This young man went to a hair transplant in Turkey a year ago and shares his experience of his reulsts. The clinic promised him a certain amounts of grafts, PRP, a nice hotel and many other things that didn’t happen.
Dr. Dan McGrath and David DiMuzzio share what is happening in black market clinics around the world. Dr. McGrath is the President of the ABHRS, the only recognized certification for hair restoration surgery and an esteemed member of the ISHRS.
In this video, a patient from Guatemala recently visited Dra. Schambach for a hair transplant repair. He had gotten a hair transplant two years earlier in another clinic in Guatemala. He realized before it was too late once he was undergoing the procedure that something was not right. When he went to the clinic for his first consultation before the …
A patient of Dr. Francisco Jimenez, ISHRS President, shares his experience of traveling to Turkey for a hair transplant after seeing advertisements in Spain for low cost hair transplants. Listen to his story as he shares his experience and the fact that he never saw a doctor. He doesn’t even know who performed his surgery. Now, he is getting a …
In this video a patient shares his bad experience with a hair transplant clinic in Turkey. When doing research, the patient contacted a clinic and they told him they would transplant 5,000 hair grafts without ever having seen a picture of him. Once he arrived at the clinic, the doctor drew the hairline, but it wasn’t what he wanted it …
In 2017, this patient traveled to hospital in Istanbul for a beard transplant. His experience was disastrous. It has taken him a lot of time, cost, and pain to fix the near irreparable damage that – for a time – he believed had permanently ruined his face. He booked his procedure through a travel medical agency; through them, they arranged …
This patient’s case is unfortunately a too common one. A young man was desperately seeking to improve his hair appearance by a surgical hair restoration and got dazzled by the promises and the low-cost offers that are heavily advertised by a beauty clinic. These kinds of facilities attract people interested in getting a hair transplant, based on heavy advertising and …