Dr Jeffrey M. Waesche

Dear We Grow Hair, I need to address something because I am becoming increasingly concerned about the psychological warfare you are conducting against me. I AM NOT BALD. I repeat: I HAVE HAIR. I wake up every morning and there is HAIR ON MY HEAD. I did not order hair. I did not request hair. Yet somehow, against all odds, the factory continues producing it. I am simply a man trying to live his life. I live minimally but comfortably. I am old but young. Fat but healthy. I run long distances, despite being built like a refrigerator with unresolved childhood trauma. I bike. I swim. I participate in multiple endurance sports despite apparently having a personal vendetta against comfort. I am aging. I am happy. I am NOT BALD. And yet your marketing department has apparently gathered in a dark room somewhere and unanimously decided: “THIS MAN IS BALD.” NO. HE IS NOT. I DID NOT SUBSCRIBE TO WE GROW HAIR. WE GROW HAIR SUBSCRIBED TO ME. Every time I open Instagram, THERE YOU ARE. I scroll. YOU. I close the app. I reopen it. YOU. I look at a picture of a sandwich. YOU. I am beginning to suspect you have installed a tiny Turkish hair transplant salesman inside my phone. And whoever is running your advertising needs to be investigated by the FBI because you are targeting the WRONG MAN. Also, I have been to Turkey enough times that I have developed opinions. And respectfully, I do not think you guys can compete. For $10,000 I could go to Turkey, get my hair situation handled, eat an obscene amount of food, stare at beautiful scenery, encounter beautiful people, have seventeen cups of Turkish tea, and probably come home with a suspiciously cheap leather jacket. Your $10,000 says: “Here is your hair.” Turkey says: “Here is your hair, dinner, dessert, tea, transportation, and somehow a man named Mehmet who now considers you family.” AND THEN THERE IS THE DOCTOR IN YOUR ADS. MY BROTHER IN CHRIST(or what ever you are into my guy): TAKE OFF THE BLUE SCRUB CAP. I BEG YOU. You cannot stand there every 11 minutes telling me about hair restoration while hiding your own head like it is classified government information. SHOW US THE GOODS. LET THE FOLLICLES SPEAK. If you are going to preach the Gospel of Hair, you need to show us the Gospel according to YOUR SCALP. At this point I am one advertisement away from throwing my iPhone directly into the Cumberland River. I am not joking. My phone will be at the bottom of the river, surrounded by catfish, and somehow I already know the first thing I will see when I buy a new one: “THINNING HAIR? “ NO. I HAVE HAIR. My family has hair. My ancestors had hair. My father has hair. My mother has hair. My hair has tenure. This hair has survived things. It has survived stress. It has survived bad decisions. It has survived COVID. It has survived me becoming a distance runner, cyclist AND swimmer for reasons even my therapist cannot explain. And now YOU want to convince me it is leaving? Absolutely not. WE GROW HAIR, please release me from your digital hostage situation. I am not your customer. I am not your demographic. I am not balding. I am simply a man with a perfectly functional head of hair being aggressively bullied by a hair transplant company. Please stop showing up. I am begging you. Before I become the first person in America to drown an iPhone because a hair clinic hurt his feelings.

Everyone was very helpful throughout the entire process. Special shoutout to Hannah!

2 transplants (FUTs), 3 PRP treatments, and over $20K later = Underwhelming results. To be fair, I’ll list both the pros and cons that I experienced during my time here. Pros (Why I’m rating this place 2/5 instead of 1/5): All of the staff members are very nice people. Unfortunately, I didn’t pay $20K just to meet nice people. Cons: You pay for the surface area, NOT for the amount of graphs that are transplanted. In other words, for the area you’ll want covered, you’ll pay a certain amount, and they can transplant 1 graph or 10,000 graphs - the price is the same. The way they make money is brilliant, so I’ll give them that. In other words, during the first procedure, the surgeon will purposely separate each graph far enough from each other, so when the hair regrows, the surface area appears significantly thin, and you’re bound to opt into a second surgery to continue to fill up your hair. I fell into this trap, and opted into a second surgery. The same thing happened. 1 year after my second surgery, and my hairline still looks incomplete and very thin. I was told PRP treatments can fix this, so I opted into 3 treatments. Alas, the PRP treatments didn’t fix it. Also, the surgeons (I had 2 different surgeons for both treatments) placed my hair graphs in the opposite direction in which my hair naturally grows, making the newly implanted hair graphs painfully obvious. Some context: Each of my surgeries costed me $9K (for $18K total), and each PRP treatment costed me $1.5K ($4.5K total), totaling $22.5K for unfinished results. Prior to the first surgery, I had a massive widows peak, and I simply wanted the widows peak filled in, for a straight hairline. To-date, you can still see the widows peak, and the transplanted hair in the formerly bald areas simply makes it look like I’m thinning in those areas now. Advice for new customers: Yes, the models shown on the billboards and in the office are real (the billboard photos might be manipulated, but you’ll see videos of models in the office). However, I failed to ask during my consultation *how many* transplants the models received to achieved those desired results. If you have unlimited funds and years of time to kill, it’ll take *at least* 3 sessions to achieve your desired results. It’s recommended to wait 12 months post-surgery before getting a 2nd surgery, so if you have a similar surgery done like me, expect to spend $30K (or more, depending on your coverage) over the span of 3 years, minimum. Disclaimer: You’ll receive instructions post-treatment, teaching you how to care for your new implants for the best results. I followed this plan religiously and still fell short of expected results. Now-a-days, I take finasteride to maintain my existing hair, and oral minoxidil to boost the thickness of what I have left. I’ve seen positive results of both treatments. I also have an LLLT helmet (low light laser therapy), however I haven’t seen any significant results from that. Future plans: I’m brainstorming a third session, however I’m not going back to this clinic because I don’t trust them anymore. I’ve been looking at other local companies that charge you per graph, not per surface area. Fun fact: All of the 5-star reviews you see here on Google? We’re incentivized to give them 5 stars to receive 1 free in-house LLLT treatment (which consist of stronger lasers than at-home laser helmets). This is why you’ll see 4.8/5 stars here and 1.6/5 stars on Yelp. Update: I ended up going back into the office to talk with the consultant and doctor, after they invited me back into the office for a meeting. Long story short, they offered a third surgery. Plot twist: For the SAME price! Needless to say, I've been in talks with Nashville Hair Doctor. Instead of $9K, they offered to charge me $4K, and they were very in-depth with the amount of grafts they were shooting for. I haven't pulled the trigger with them yet, however my experience with Nashville Hair Doctor so far has been wonderful. Watch out for a second update when I have a session with them!

I had the best experience with this particular group. I would recommend to anyone who wants a great experience. I’ve had consultations at a few different spots . Turkey was one. It’s just too far and I wasn’t comfortable with that destination. I tried one in Pittsburgh. In my opinion we grow hair is definitely one of the best ones .

Do not go here if they are using the same surgeon from 2022. I was told I would only receive single hair grafts in my front hairline, which is the modern day standard. After the surgery it was obvious they used a lot of double hair grafts in my front hairline. I asked them about this after the surgery and they said they use double and singles in the hairline and that I was misinformed. THIS IS REALLY BAD, the front hairline should only have single HAIR grafts to avoid that pluggy look and mimic a natural hairline. Why they would put doubles in my hairline is insane to me, now my hairline has to be fixed. Makes me sick tbh