Every day many people call our office with one single question: how much do you charge per graft? To a serious, dedicated hair restoration surgery practice, this is simply an impossible question to answer. This is due to the complexity of a hair restoration procedure, and the inherent variability of the intrinsic physical and physiological factors of each individual patient. While we are very aware that many practices in this field, both corporate and private, charge by-the-graft, we feel this makes as much sense as charging by the valve when performing valve replacement surgery on a patients heart, or charging by the cc when performing a breast enhancement procedure. Make no mistake: charging hair restoration patients by-the-graft is the invention of the business man, not the physician. For example, when considering a rhinoplasty (e.g.: nose job), a patient will most often interview one or more surgeons to find the one they feel the most comfortable with, as the public recognizes that nasal surgery is difficult and the results are often permanent. Frequently in choosing a surgeon for a nose job, a patient will strongly consider the surgeons training, experience, and how often the surgeon performs a nose job. After selecting the surgeon and meeting with him or her to discuss the patients wishes, and after the surgeon assesses the complexity of the proposed nasal surgery, a patient will typically receive a statement with surgery fees and anesthesia/facility fees. Note that plastic surgeons who do nose jobs do NOT charge by the length of nose, they charge by the complexity of surgery. Most patients do not see a billboard saying Season Special $1,000 per nostril nosejobs, minimum 2 nostrils, at Nose Jobs R Us. One simply cannot respond to a billboard ad and feel good about nasal surgery results. Hair restoration is not different than any other permanent facial plastic surgical procedure, such as a nose job or a facelift. Like a nose job, the procedure is difficult to perform when done well, and the results are permanent. The results are directly dependent on the skill, training, and experience of the surgeon, and the quality, experience, and talent of the technicians who will work with the hair follicles. We deeply respect hair restoration for what it is: a highly-complex surgical procedure involving not just Dr. Anderson, but our experienced team of surgical technicians that brings unbelievable joy to men and women who suffer from hair loss. It is NOT a plug-and-play product that is the same anywhere you go as long as the graft number remains constant. This makes as much sense as saying every single automobile in the world is exactly the same provided they all have 4 tires. In hair restoration, there are hundreds of subtleties that vary from person to person. It is a procedure that brings my patients a great deal of happiness, it restores their confidence, and sense of youth and well-being. It is a procedure that simply cannot be boiled down to a per-the-graft pricing. Getting the patient involved in the details of the surgery, and negotiating the number of hairs to be moved, is really just to distract the patient from the more important things that some medical practices would rather you not think about, such as the experience, background, and training of the ACTUAL surgeon who will be doing the surgical procedure. For more information, please visit AtlantaHairSurgeon, or call us at (404) 256-4247
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:35:17 +0000
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