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Physician members of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians must meet and maintain the demanding standards set by this community and consistently produce excellent natural looking hair transplant results.  

Recently, we sought the input and opinions of our hair loss forum community about potentially inviting Dr. Timothy Carman to join the ranks of the elite Coalition.  View their input by visiting the Potential Coalition Membership for Dr. Timothy Carman.

Based on all the evidence we collected privately and publicly including patient member feedback and input from leading hair restoration physicians, we believe Dr. Carman has earned his rightful place in the highly esteemed Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians.

Feel free to congratulate him by clicking on his featured potential coalition membership thread above.

To see our criteria for Coalition membership, click here.  To see an exclusive list of all the physicians we recommend worldwide, click here.

View the official Press Release.

Bill - aka Falceros
Associate Publisher/Editor

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Only those hair restoration physicians who have a proven track record of performing state of the art hair transplantation are recommended on the Hair Transplant Network. An elite group of surgeons who regularly perform larger densely packed sessions of ultra refined follicular unit hair transplantation when appropriate for the patient qualify for the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians. View our Coalition membership standards here.

Recently, we sought the advice and opinions of our online hair loss patient community about potentially inviting Dr. Bernard Arocha to join the ranks of the Coalition. View the Potential Coalition Membership for Dr. Bernardino Arocha on our discussion forum.

After visiting and observing Dr. Arocha perform live surgery (view highlights) and considering your input, we are pleased to announce and welcome Dr. Arocha into the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians. Feel free to congratulate him by clicking on his featured potential coalition membership thread above.

To see our criteria for recommendation and for Coalition membership, click here. To see an exclusive list of all the physicians we recommend worldwide, click here.

View the official Press Release.

Bill - aka Falceros
Associate Publisher of the Hair Transplant Network and the Hair Loss Learning Center
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Our community was created by and for hair loss patients to share experiences, evaluate hair restoration physicians, and offer input on hair loss treatments that really work. For over 10 years, our discussion forum has enabled balding men and women to share the good, the bad and the ugly.

Today, over 350 patients have authored weblogs to share their hair restoration experiences and hair transplant photos with you. Below we introduce you to just a few of the patients whose hair restoration dreams became reality and the doctors who made it happen.

Join the ranks of these hair restoration super stars and create your own free hair loss weblog to share your experience and photos.

• Blogger “Wantego” came to us with a receding hairline looking for real ways to restore his hair. His research on our discussion forum led him to surgical hair restoration with Coalition member Dr. Rahal. Receiving 4374 follicular unit grafts, he’s been able to restore his “true” hair density and no longer shows any signs of balding. View his blog for a detailed account of his experience with photos.

• After receiving two previous hair transplants, “Phoneguy” found Coalition member Dr. Cooley by researching our community. Bothered by hair loss in the frontal half of his scalp, Dr. Cooley placed 1947 follicular unit grafts into the areas of thinning hair, eliminating signs of baldness. “Phoneguy” has quickly learned why other Dr. Cooley patients refer to themselves as “Cooleyfied”. You can read his experience and view his photos on his blog.

Our patient driven hair loss community contains thousands of real hair restoration success stories and before and after hair transplant photos.

Recently, discussion  forum member and journalist Brian Beacom shared his hair transplant experience with our community. He is so pleased with his results that he used his journalist skills to athor a book titled “Diary of a Hair Transplant - A Journalist’s Search For David Cassidy Hair“.

In this enjoyable and personal testimony, Brian details not only his hair transplant experience, but how hair loss affected him and his great longing to restore his youthful appearance and acquire hair like the Partridge Family’s David Cassidy. His desire for the lustrous locks of a rock star captured his mind to borderline obsession until he found world renowned Coalition Physician Dr. Farjo that helped turn his hair restoration dreams into reality.

The book features his futile attempts at hair regrowth using a multitude of various alleged hair loss solutions and an attempt at understanding how those with hair love to mock those with male pattern baldness. Inevitably, Brian shares his reaction and research that led him to restore his hair through surgical hair restoration and how the Hair Transplant Network patient driven community helped educate and nurture him through the process.

For those of you struggling with losing your hair and interested in reading a personal and thorough account of one man’s hair restoration journey with photos, you may want to pick up a copy of “Diary of a Hair Transplant - A Journalist’s Search for David Cassidy Hair“.

During 2008, despite three lawsuits attempting to suppress free speech on our hair loss forum, we prevailed and our members continue to share their honest opinions and experiences. The “free speech” we enjoy on our forum is far from free. Our legal costs for 2008 were over $100,000.

As much as we dislike paying attorneys, we’d rather pay them than give into legal intimidation and delete true but unfavorable posts or allow hair restoration physicians with poor results to be presented on our community.

While other forums have caved into such legal intimidation (click here for details), we think the integrity of our community is worth paying a high price to maintain.  The other two lawsuits have been dismissed and are thus no longer pending. We will also continue to protect our forum community from covert marketing (see “Free Hair Transplants for Posting”).

On a lighter note, we celebrated the ten year anniversary of the Hair Transplant Network this past September during the annual ISHRS physicians meeting held in Montreal. Leading physicians and patients attended our ten year anniversary party. For highlights and photos from the party, view the “Ten Year Anniversary of the Hair Transplant Network”. To view highlights from the annual ISHRS scientific meeting, click here.

This past year we carefully reviewed and added seven physicians to our recommended list, while removing five physicians who we believe no longer met our high standards for recommendation. To learn more about how physicians are selected, visit How we recommend Hair Transplant Physicians.

Have you ever wondered why so many actors have a full head of hair? Though it may appear that Hollywood is immune to male pattern baldness, many may have restored their hair with today’s revolutionary hair transplant procedures.

Thanks to the online collaboration between educated patients and quality physicians, today’s surgical hair restoration procedures can produce results so natural that even your hair stylist can’t detect them.

Ultra refined follicular unit grafting has raised the bar for physicians and their staff. Today, clinics dedicated to this revolutionary procedure can perform larger densely packed sessions when appropriate for the patient. A hair transplant surgeon must have a large and experienced enough staff to carefully trim all follicular units under microscopes and pack them closely together into tiny incisions carefully and timely. Only experienced and delicate hands can properly place grafts into small and densely packed incisions without damaging the grafts.

Thankfully, a handful of surgeons, such as members of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians have mastered this technique and regularly perform it with excellent results. Below we’ve provided a few recent examples provided by real patients sharing their stories and hair transplant photos with us. You are encouraged to offer your input on their hair loss blogs.

The skill and experience of hair transplant surgeons vary widely, as do their results. That’s why in our community, patients have the final say as to who is recommended on the Hair Transplant Network.

Recently, Dr. Cam Simmons, his technique, and results were carefully reviewed by our hair loss forum community in consideration for recommendation.  To learn how we recommend hair transplant surgeons, click here.

After extensive research and seeking input from his patients and other leading surgeons, we are pleased to announce that Dr. Cam Simmons of Toronto, Canada has been approved for recommendation on the Hair Transplant Network. To congratulate and welcome him to our community, visit the “Potential Recommendation of Dr. Cam Simmons of Toronto, Canada”.

Dr. Simmons has been performing hair restoration surgery exclusively for over 9 years and has the staff and experience to perform sessions over 3000 densely packed follicular unit grafts when appropriate for the patient.

Dr. Simmons was visited and observed in live surgery by our Publisher Patrick Hennessey. See the highlights of “Pat’s visit to Dr. Simmons’ clinic in Toronto”.

Those local to Toronto and beyond considering surgical hair restoration should definitely consult with Dr. Simmons and consider him for surgery. To view his physician profile and learn how to contact him, click here.

View the official Press Release.

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Bill - aka Falceros
Associate Publisher/Editor

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In the old days, balding men and women had no other choice other than accepting their hair loss or covering bald areas with a hair piece or other coverings. Even today, the best non-surgical hair loss treatments like Propecia (finasteride) and Rogaine (minoxidil) can’t grow hair in completely bald areas.

Thanks to patients demanding only the best results and holding surgeons publicly accountable, world renowned physicians can deliver surgical hair restoration results so natural and dense that even your hair stylist couldn’t detect them. Surgeons dedicated to today’s revolutionized ultra refined follicular unit hair transplantation procedure can perform even larger densely packed sessions when appropriate for the patient. This minimizes the number of surgeries a patient needs while maximizing hair density, coverage, and naturalness.

Below we introduce you to several former baldies who have successfully restored their hair and lives with todays revolutionized hair transplant procedures.

Much like his name suggests; hair loss blogger “King Crown” was concerned about his large bald spot and desperately wanted his hair back. After extensive research on our hair loss forum, he was very impressed by the densely packed and consistent results he regularly saw Dr. Rahal of Ottawa, Canada producing. 9 Months later, it’s next to impossible to tell that he’s ever had a trace of thinning hair. You are encouraged to view his blog and congratulate “King Crown” on his new lustrous locks.

In the past, prospective patients considering hair transplants had limited online information about clinics they were considering. But recently, we’ve been successful in getting all surgeons recommended on the Hair Transplant Network to present examples of their work on our hair loss forum. See “Recommended Clinics Required to Present their Patient Results on our Forum”.

As a result, our forum has had a significant increase in members and prospective patients regularly visiting us. What a great opportunity for prospective patients to see real results from a larger variety of clinics they are considering. To see a number of patient examples from a number of leading hair restoration clinics throughout the world, visit “Patient Results Posted by Leading Hair Transplant Clinics”.

Bill Seemiller - aka Falceros
Associate Publisher/Editor

Technorati Tags: hair transplants, hair loss, hair restoration

In the hands of the right hair restoration physician, today’s hair transplants are so natural that even hairstylists cannot detect them. But despite the recent advancements in the industry, the majority of the public still think of the old hair plugs when hair transplants are mentioned.

Late in 2008, there was a major breakthrough for educating the public on the advanced techniques in hair restoration. On October 7 th, 2008 at 4:00pm EST on ABC, Coalition member Dr. Robert Bernstein, discussed today’s ultra refined follicular unit hair transplantation on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Not only is Dr. Bernstein a recognized leader in the hair transplant industry by his peers, he has long received online accolades by his patients on our hair loss forum for producing excellent results.

Upon Dr. Bernstein’s introduction, Oprah asked why Dr. Bernstein didn’t have a hair transplant himself since he is bald. He simply replied that these advanced techniques didn’t exist when he first went bald, and now he is used to it.

In this brief but enlightening segment on the Oprah Winfrey show, Dr. Bernstein presented a brief video demonstrating him and his dedicated staff performing surgery and showcased his patient’s results live on the show. While, Oprah Winfrey had a chance to examine his new head of hair and look for the scar, everyone was very impressed with the result. Additionally, nobody, including Oprah Winfrey was able to find the donor scar.