Last week I had two interesting experiences from 3 professionals that proposed to perform my procedure. I work in a medical building and Dr. Richard Bensimon and Paul Petonito do excellent HT work here in CT (I have met their patients), but a large procedure for them would be 1,500 grafts. Two days before I flew to Vancouver they called to warn me that no one that could perform the originally estimated 3,500 grafts for a hair transplant. So they followed up with me last week to say they were, to say the least, very curious as to how it looked. I immediately ran down the hall to their office, shook their hands and said �here I am, 4,866 grafts later!�

Paul asked me to sit in the chair and examined me without saying a word for a full minute. I was starting to get nervous but his first words were �They did an excellent job� then he said that he had never seen a procedure with this many grafts and that he loved the way it was all planned out. He went further to say that the hairline was perfect and that I did the right thing by going to Dr. Hasson. He said he would have achieved the same result in two transplants but I knew he would be lucky to do it in three.  He then called in two of his technicians to show them what was done and they were floored. Dr. Bensimon, the plastic surgeon later took out my staples for me and relayed that his only skepticism is wondering �whether all those grafts will grow with the limited blood supply.� I replied that time will tell but if these mega-sessions didn�t prove to have excellent yield we would likely know that already on this forum.

The very next day I ran into Dr. Ivan Cohen, who is very a popular HT surgeon in Fairfield County, at a community breakfast. When he got up to leave I quickly followed and asked him if he would mind looking at my newly grafted head. He agreed, so I removed my baseball cap and he looked at me and said �wow, that�s a lot of dense packing�it looks like they did a terrific job and you should be very happy with the result.� He also liked the closure (and he performs the Tricho as well). That meant a lot to me from a guy that performs 2 HT per day.

It just made me feel good to know that professionals who perform hair transplants were giving me the thumbs up. I am so glad I did my research and chose Dr. Hasson. But I�ll know more about the decision in a year so I need to be patient.