Natural Transplants, Hair Restoration ClinicReviews of naturaltransplants.com

I had such a bizarre experience with Natural Transplants recently. I had two consultations with Dr. Blumenthal (one virtual and one in person) and one follow-up conversation after I decided to pay a deposit for the procedure. In every conversation, I was reassured that our expectations were aligned and that Natural Transplants would be able to give me the results I wanted. Following these conversations, I paid my deposit, scheduled my appointment, made the financial arrangements, and took the necessary time off from work. 10 days before my scheduled procedure, Jerry, the sales representative, called me and told me that after a subsequent conversation with Dr. Blumenthal, they thought that I should hold off on getting the procedure due to "nervousness and anxiousness." He kept repeating this phrase and circling any real answer. I ended up canceling the procedure. Do I think I was nervous and anxious, yes, but not necessarily more so than the average patient who is about to get a permanent procedure? I believe I asked the appropriate questions and felt reassured by the answers Dr. Blumenthal provided. In hindsight, I do think he was just trying to tell me what I wanted to hear and later backtracked and blamed it on me. Additionally, their "HUE" procedure is just a rebranded FUT that they charge a FUE price (I was quoted $10k for a "35cm2 strip containing 6,000 hair follicles"). Do not waste your time with these guys, they are super cagey and not transparent in their communication.

This company is putting medical misinformation on social media in order to generate customers. Any company willing to outright lie to the public deserves no ones business. There are many reputable hair loss clinics out there, this one seems not to be one of them. Do your own research but, I don't trust any company that willfully and knowingly lies to their potential customers.

I look worse than I had before hair transplant. I had paid a lot of amount for my hair transplant so that I could look better but for my shock I look worse than I after my hair hair transplant after 6 months. I don’t think it will be any better than 6 months but I still look worse before I took the hair transplant. I took the hair transplant from Dr. Huebner if somebody may be wondering and he had told me I had really good transplanted hair.

I had my hair transplant done in March of 2018 with Dr. Siegel. I was extremely eager, excited, and optimistic to get this procedure done. I watched their YouTube videos and read the really good reviews, so I figured getting this hair transplant would change my life. The right side of my hairline had a significant amount of hair loss from wearing tight braids and ponytails when I was a teenager, the left side was not as bad. Unfortunately, I was blessed with my father's masculine v shaped hairline. I wanted my hairline lowered as well to create a more feminine hairline. The transplant was done in under 4 hours and felt rushed. When I got back to the hotel I looked at my new hairline. I did notice that the grafts at the front right side of my hairline were spaced far apart compared to the left front of my hairline. It looked like they ran out of grafts and started spacing them far a part (I can fit my pinky finger in some of the gaps). As far as my results over a year later I am disappointed and unhappy. I did address my concerns with Dr. Siegel at months 6, 8, and 12. I told him my hairline was thin and uneven and sent him pictures. I was expecting to be happy and confident about my hairline, but I am still parting my hair the same way that I did before the transplant because my edges are still thin, there are gaps where the hairs were placed too far a part, and I have a very unnatural hairline. I was expecting to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail after my final results. There is no way I am doing that. It looks a MESS! My hairline at the front where the doctor lowered my hairline looks uneven and unnatural (it resembles hair plugs). There is a line of demarcation where my old hairline was. It goes from thin transplanted hair to my non-transplanted hairs which are thick. I invested a lot of time and money into this to not be happy. I did send the doctor final pictures and addressed my unhappiness over Skype. He did look concerned when I told him. He did offer to add a few hairs in the front of my hairline to fill in the gaps ( I need a lot more than a few hairs). He did say that he would look over the pictures that I sent him and compare the before and after pictures and contact me back. I waited about a week I never heard back from him which was very disappointing. I decided to text him and asked if he looked over the pictures and what his final thoughts were. I wanted to know if he thought all the grafts grew, and I expressed again that I was disappointed. He responded back that he was sorry that I was unhappy and that he would have Dr. Huebner follow up with me. I was expecting my doctor to follow up with me and provide answers to my questions. Dr. Siegel never told Dr. Huebner to contact me, I contacted Dr. Huebner myself. Yet again very unprofessional Dr. Siegel. I do appreciate that I was able to address my concerns with Dr. Huebner, but I was expecting an apology for my experience and disappointing results. Unfortunately, I was never given an apology. Dr. Hueber basically said because of the hair loss that I had two transplants would have been needed to begin with. Dr. Siegel not once ever mentioned that I would need a 2nd hair transplant. Dr. Huebner offered a discount on a 2nd transplant. He mentioned that the staff needed to get paid, and they had to pay for supplies. Clearly with the pictures that I sent a good transplant was not performed. Why should I be responsible to pay for a 2nd hair transplant? No one gave me a valid reason for my hairline looking the way that it does (gaps, hair plugs, crooked hairline). Dr. Siegel could not explain anything to me, and seemed to be avoiding me. Dr. Huebner said that he brings new doctors into the clinic and trains them. Dr. Siegel was a newer doctor at the time so that is probably why my hairline looked the way that it does. I felt like that remark was extremely unprofessional. I felt like I was a guinea pig for Dr. Siegel to practice on when he stated this. I was basically asked to pay more money to fix a bad hair transplant that Dr. Siegel did. My results are completely UNACCEPTABLE!! The following year I decided to write a review on the Natural Transplants website because I really wanted to express my feelings about my experience with them. Two days later I got a call from Dr. Huebner asking me if I could change my review because it was costing them to, "LOSE A LOT OF BUSINESS." He wanted me to put in the review that they were offering a discount on the 2nd hair transplant, and trying to fix my edges. I did agree to add that into the review and I reposted it, but later deleted the review because Dr. Huebner asked me to consider editing the review again or deleting it, and took a little more money off the quoted price for a 2ND transplant if I agreed. I got frustrated and deleted it, which I regretted. I won't delete my review again!! I don't trust this clinic!!!

After several months of research and crowd-sourcing for information on online forums, Reddit, Facebook and Youtube, I had finally settled with Dr.Matthew Huebner of Natural Transplants Hair Restoration. Additional preparation included consulting with my dermatologist for a scalp biopsy which determined that I didn't have central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA). My decision to undergo the hair transplantation process came after the realization that the high hairline I inherited from my father was not appealing to me. In September 2019, just a few days shy of my birthday, I traveled to Florida for the procedure. The place was easy to find and the staff members were warm and inviting. During my in-person consultation with Dr.Huebner, he draw a round hairline to showcase what my new hairline would look like after the transplantation process and I was less than thrilled. Turns out, EVERYONE gets this round hairline. Hair from my donor site was shaved and I was whisked to the procedure room where everything occurred in under 3 hours. I remember my scalp (frontal lobe region) not being "numbed" enough, and wishing there was more lidocaine. I winced and then Dr.Huebner injected more of the lidocaine in. Everything went as well as can be expected from that point forward, and I was fit to travel back home the next day. Months later, I noticed some gaps in between the new hairline that Dr.Huebner created, and even areas of alopecia that I didn't have before. The lack of density also proved to be a real concern. I was documenting my "progress" every month, reaching out to Dr.Huebner and sending photos along the way. Time and again, i was told to be patient, that the hair would fill out more. We are now a year post-transplantation and the bald spots never filled in. Let me repeat: I have alopecia that I didn't have prior to the procedure. Since the procedure, I have worn my hair out approximately ONCE, as my coworkers noticed right away the deep chasm in the middle of my hairline. I am livid. I was told that the transplant would be inconspicuous, and yet everyone is aware. I have the classic doll hairline and it is embarrassing. No one at Natural Transplants has attempted to make this right. Each time I send Dr.Huebner a photo of my hairline, he gaslights me. I spent 10K for the procedure and regret the entire process. I would have opted for Dr.Diep instead.

I just want to follow up with my previous review as well as the response by natural transplants. On November 1, 2018 I received a hair transplants and Natural Transplants. Dr. Seigel performed my transplants. In my original review I said this was the biggest regret of my life. I still 100 percent feel this way. I am writing an additional review because of Natural Transplants response to my original postal. First My primary frustration/concern with Dr. Seigel and Natural transplants is that they did not know enough about my hair loss prior to performing the surgery. Frankly I did not know about my hair loss prior to my surgery. As it turns out I have CCCA not just traction alopecia. I was not aware of the CCCA until after my transplant was performed. Dr Seigal did not take the time to fully understand my hair lose. I was not asked to go to the dermatologist , He did not examine my scalp at all. Prior to my surgery he was not fully aware of the extent of my hair loss. Natural Transplants responded to my initial review by stating well from my pictures a biopsy was not required. That was wrong. I had a biopsy performed after my surgery and I was diagnosed with CCCA. Ladies hair transplants doctors are not dermatologist. They do not specialize in diagnosing hair loss. Please do not rely on them to fully understand your hair loss. You must go to a dermatologist prior to get a transplant. I have spoken with Dr. Hubner since my original post. I told him that I 100 percent regret getting my transplant done at Natural Transplants. Had I been properly diagnosed I would have focused on addressing the CCCA. Now I can't even cut my hair because I have this terrible scar in the back of my head. In many ways this decision has ruined my life. I thought I was stressed about my hair prior to this transplant. Now I have to worrying about the CCCA plus this scar in the back of my head. LADIES PLEASE GET PROPERLY DIAGNOSED I have no problem with posting pictures of my progress. Again I have been in touch with Natural Transplants and I have shared my concerns. I will write another review in 6 months. Right now I don't have much to report about the transplanted area no changes.