Calvin:
I agree somewhat..having worn a system for 18 years. However, one must consider the damage to the underlying hairs caused by the attachment method. See attached picture below.

I had every conceivable type of attachment, the last being polyfuse (glamorous name for glue). When I removed the system, I had severe acne, irritation and ingrown hairs at the attachment sites which haven’t fully healed almost 1 year later.

Good news is, most of this hair is bouncing back from my Propecia and Rogaine regimen.

DSC00505.JPG (84 Kb, 444 downloads) My worst side--still have ingrown hairs and pimples

If the guy is happy with a hairpiece thats great but for petes sake dont pay 4k a year or 1k a year for that matter. Call New Image in Florida and get your own piece for about 140.00 and put it on your head. Then find a person that cuts hair and pay them 20 bucks to cut it in. Thats what I did for 9 years until I got so tired of dealing with it that I got a HT from Dr. Robert Haber who is a great Surgeon! If you want to wear a HP get a hold of me and I will help you anyway I can.

If someone is happy , that is all that matters. For me, a hairpiece would be a "band aid" and I wanted to think long term in addition to the whole fear factor of being discovered, it wasnt for me

I've been wearing a system for 13 years, and have about had it with the hassle - not to mention that it's really getting expensive. I'm considering a HT. I see that someone has mentioned wearing his system over his HT till the new hair grows in. How would you go about doing this? Wouldn't it mess up the new hair? Where do you get clips?