http://www.alviarmanihairtransplants.com/

AlviArmani is the name of the company. Their Hair transplant photos look great, but as usual, I am skeptical. Anyone know about the quality of their work? Thanks!

Man have we talked about Alvi over the years!! Just run a search on "Alvi" or "Armani" and you will find plenty of topics. I recently started a discussion on Alvi here.

I noticed they even have their own forum for discussions.

http://www.alviarmanihairtransplants.com/hair-loss-forum/

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Originally posted by Kansas:
I noticed they even have their own forum for discussions.

Yeah right. Have a look at the number of members and topics. This is just another marketing tool.

I am one of those that I would love to have my temples closed. Most of the time that I see pictures of a hair transplant, I notice that they pay little or no attention to this area. Is there anyone on this forum that has been to his clinic and visited with them or better yet, gone through a procedure and can give us actual results?

While I have read on these boards about several different doctors, I have narrowed my search to two clinics that have a good reputation. Shapiro and Wong & Hasson. Does anyone know if they do good temple work? While I would love to undergo a procedure now, I have to first pay off my first HT gone bad with Medical Hair Restoration. I wish I would have known about this forum earlier, but what can I do now. Thanks for everyone's advice and helpful information!

I searched on this site, but didn't find that much information about his work. All I could find was info about his temple procedure...nothing really bad about the quality of his work or ethics. Can anyone chime in??

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Originally posted by Kansas:
I am one of those that I would love to have my temples closed. Most of the time that I see pictures of a hair transplant, I notice that they pay little or no attention to this area. Is there anyone on this forum that has been to his clinic and visited with them or better yet, gone through a procedure and can give us actual results?

While I have read on these boards about several different doctors, I have narrowed my search to two clinics that have a good reputation. Shapiro and Wong & Hasson. Does anyone know if they do good temple work? While I would love to undergo a procedure now, I have to first pay off my first HT gone bad with Medical Hair Restoration. I wish I would have known about this forum earlier, but what can I do now. Thanks for everyone's advice and helpful information!

How's this for temple areas?

Looks good! Keep us posted on the results! I am surprised that no one else knows much about this clinic.

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While I would love to undergo a procedure now, I have to first pay off my first HT gone bad with Medical Hair Restoration.

From what I understand, Armani charges significantly more for a repair job where as most other top docs just charge you for the additional amount of grafts you're getting. I don't know the accuracy of this, but I have heard that Armani charges as much as 50% more if you are a repair patient.

If your hairloss is limited to temples or just the front, Alvi is way to go. He will give you as much density as you desire.

Really? Have you used his services? Please tell me more. See the reason I ask is that out of all the web sites I have seen, his result are the most dense and look to be what I am looking for. I am highly skeptical, so I want to hear what ex-clients have to say about their experiences and results. Thanks!

No. I have not had a procedure with him, but from what I hear from lot of other patients is that all the pictures on his website are real. He is very aggresive at putting grafts, and he can give you upto 100 grafts/cm2 in just one session. Like I said if you're someone older with very limited hairloss, then he might be an excellent choice. But nowdays even Dr H & W can do 70-80 grafts/cm2 if you desire. check out the other forums to find out more about Alvi. Also have consultation with other docs to see if they can give you what you desire.

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Originally posted by kg007:
Also have consultation with other docs to see if they can give you what you desire.

Yes, you do that. And if they can't, ask yourself why. That is the difference between Alvi and the others: Alvi will give you what you want, the Coalition docs (and any doc with a bit of ethics) will give you what they think is best in your case, taking into account your personal history, future hairloss and so on.

Thanks for the info guys! Now I hope to hear from someone that got work done from their office. I love the results, but thanks to MHR, I won't consider an office until I talk to past customers. Seems his results are better than normal. I wonder why no one on these forums have used him. Does that in itself speak volume or has no one been to his office just by chance? Anyone had at least a consultation with this company?

Thanks again guys!

Kansas,

Good to see you're doing your research. One thing that I ask that you keep in consideration when searching for a physician to conduct temple work on you, is your donor area availability. Some clinics such as Alvi Armani are heavily scrutinized for packing lots of grafts in a single area and not conserving donor hair for the possibility of future loss. To me, the jury is still out on that aggressive hairline packing. I guess I'll have my answer when 5, 10, 15 year or more vets of Armani are posting about how they feel about their thick hairline when they are in their 40's and older.

Check out my new photos of hair line work performed by Dr. Cooley here.

While it may not be as aggressive as what you want, it's certainly not too conservative either. I have had extensive hairloss in my early 20's so I HAD to be careful about hair line placement and conservation. Dr. Cooley was able to give me a hair line that looks great without depleting all of my donor area to do it.

Good luck in your decision. Remember, I am not trying to sway you one way or another. All I am asking is that you research, read, and make sure your decision is made objectively and not emotionally. This can be extremely difficult to do, but you will thank yourself for it in the end.

-Robert

I am not jumping on the Alvi Armani band wagon but from those pics on his website his results are outstanding. Most of his patients look really young, mostly in their twenties and although he has closed their temples and added alot of density to the hairline , I think the majority of patients that are that young will eventually see hair loss in the crown area and if that is the case they possibly could run into a problem down the road.

Kansas,

One needs to consider the FACT that adult men, save for a rare few, simply do not have aggressive temple closure. Aggressive temple closure is only found, for the most part, in juvenile males and females of all ages. Mature adult male hairlines are those that are about a NW2. The Norwood scale starts with 2 as being the basis from which one starts to gauge hairloss. It denotes mature adult temporal recession which is normal and does not necessarily indicate hairloss. This is where one hopes to get with hair restoration without looking like a kid. If you are one that has any thinning whatsoever behind the hairline then aggressively closed temple angles will not look appropriate.

It is one thing to be able to dense pack. I see it everyday but it is another in knowing good judgment in the placement. This is not to say that NO patient should have aggressive temple angle closure but as candidates they are few and far inbetween.

Kansas, to take this a little further, why would anyone even want 100cm/2 as a result of surgery? Anyone who has done homework knows that anything truly upwards of 60 to 75 could be considered a waste! Some of these claims are ridiculous in nature and are nothing more than marketing techniques. Joe will have to answer this, but I think H&W does 70 to 80, but only in carefully selected zones that provides density in the proper places. Alvi Armani is noted for doing some top work, but also is just as well known for closing the temples of young men, without any ability to forecast future hairloss. Calling Mrs. Cleo doesn't help either. I have read his material and pored over his website as well. I really have no issue with him as a surgeon, other than his approach to placing "too youthful" hairlines on young men who 15 years down the road are going to be completely screwed due to lack of donor hair. I say this not to cast dispersion, but in response to the reality that everytime the Armani clinic comes up, we revisit this same topic. Of course, as a someone just starting to look, you are doing the right thing by looking around and asking questions.

I am not looking to get quite that perfect of a hairline, though I would like a more youthful appearance, so closing the temples is exactly what I would like. I am 26, but feel older, not because my face or body looks it, but because my head does. I guess my observation on all the other websites I have visited do not touch the temples much. I am just in my research stage. I just want to hear about the quality of the work. Anyone know of anyone who has visited the clinic or better yet, had work done?

Oh, and I never said I wanted 100cm/2. Just a more youthful appearence. Is it me or does this doctor seem to have his haters? Might be me, but I get a weird vide. Why? Please fill me in.