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Comment 1

Ok, I just edited the section to reflect new technology, maybe someone can check it for proper Wiki format, but all the info is correct....this page really lacks a lot of the new info on hair transplants...its WAY out of date...you should contact David from hairsite.com to give it a better updated

David doesn't know anything about hair transplants. He is paid by the likes of Woods and Cole, so called 'HT surgeons', to advertise their damaging surgery on his site and to help ensure the truth about these con-artists does not become public. HT, especially FUE, is one of the biggest scams of the 21st century losing people huge sums of money each year, and there is a massive effort on behalf of these surgeons to keep the public totally misinformed. Someone needs to put a stop to it. This article in Wikipedia is a classic example of how much effort is put into twisting and hiding the truth. Each time someone writes something truthful about HT here it is immediately removed, so now we have an article that explains nothing at all.

Cost

Anyone have any figure on the approximate cost of such procedures? Obviously price quotes are not going to happen or anything (and would be inappropriate for encyclopedic entries), but would a typical person expect to pay x amount of dollars for x amount of surgery time? In other words... what would be a ROUNDABOUT figure for what a procedure would cost. Is it like 2000 or more like 10,000? I know it varies per procedure, and a person who is totally bald would cost more than a person who was just thinning... but a GENERAL idea of cost would be nice on this article.

In hair transplant surgery, there are different units by which costs are being given to patients. Good surgeons give an upfront complete cost to patients, while it is common to see per graft pricing, which the patient can't really make much sense of. In addition, the ability to do the same operation at an offshore location can also reduce costs. The typical hair transplant costs seem to range from $4000 to $15000 - depending on scale and location. (Shankar AVSB 15:19, 11 November 2007 (UTC)).[reply]

Really? The article says it's only $1.50 a graft in India. Are you quoting US or European prices? Remember that Wikipedia is an international encyclopedia. It's important to avoid US-centric or Euro-centric viewpoints.

Cost Information added

I agree that this article needed some cost/pricing information. I have added such information as well as a link to an animation that enables people to estimate the number of grafts they may need and thus the cost.

Infoseeking 16:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article Needs Updating for Neutrality

This article reads like an advertisement for hair transplantation. I'd advise an overhaul that adds neutrality, and relies more heavily on sourcing scientific papers and media articles, rather than repeating information from websites. Not that I feel one way or the other about the procedure, but this article is extremely lacking.

To elaborate, as posted elsewhere, I've noticed a trend in wikipedia's coverage of hair transplantation. They all seem overly eager to advocate Follicular Unit Transplantation, and read far too much like advertisements for those providing this service. It looks like many of them may have been written by a single individual promoting the procedure. While this one of the standard methods of transplantation, wikipedia's coverage should not be so narrow or biased as to direct individuals with glowing reviews rather than organized, cited information. Cleanup requested. --70.227.157.118 04:28, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the older procedures are now obsolete. Have you ever SEEN plugs? In other articles about products, prior versions are dealt with under "History", and understandably the most current form occupies most of the rest of the article. Sfahey 16:46, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Smells like an advertisement.

I don't have an opinion about hair transplants one way of the other, but this reads like an advertisement disguised as a wikipedia article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.96.50.30 (talk) 07:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

I agree —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.242.17.173 (talk) 23:01, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Celebrity list

Shouldn't there be sources for some of the allegations? I know some of the people there, like Richard Simmons and Dennis Miller, have acknowledged having the procedure, but have Ben Affleck, Christian Slater, et al admitted it? ChrisStansfield 09:10, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Facial hair restoration

Can anyone confirm if facial hair restoration/transplant is possible? Portillo (talk) 08:58, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Arrested Development

Should it be stated that in Arrested Development when David Cross' character Tobias gets a hair transplant the hair rejects his body and he gets sick, eventually the hair was removed. Is there any cases of this happening in real life?203.94.54.14 (talk) 02:40, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]