Glad to see that my topic is still active after 1 and a half year. Haven't changed my mind re: AA. He may be good but the docs I went to (one of them's just posted above) are probably better. Beware of money-hungry businessmen.

Hey Guys,

As one of Dr. Epsteins patients, I discussed my concern about not getting enough grafts and he explained the same thing to me as he has above. He told me I had excellent donor laxity and about 7500 grafts available, however he only wanted to do UPTO 3000 THE FIRST TIME. With my 2900 grafts he did for me, post op I had much more coverage than I have seen of anyone else with this number of grafts, (immediately post op, from Dr.'s websites.) I come from a family of doctors / surgeons/ dermatologists and they all agreed on this fact. I told Dr. Epstein to take as many grafts as possible. My contract said I would have to pay an additional $3.00 per graft above 3000 grafts. For all I know, he could have told me he took 4000 grafts and taken an etra $3000 but he did not and I paid nothing extra although I told him I was more than willing. This message is not intended to advertise his services. Its only been 6 weeks now and I have yet to see the final results. I will post some before and afters when the proof is pertinent.

I'm a fan of Dr. Epstein and believe he does solid work.

My earlier post was pointing out that there are Docs that do not peform sessions of more than 2500-3000, period. If a NW5 with great donor hair walks in to one of these offices, it would have been better, both financially and time-wise, if he had gone somewhere that he could possibly have gotten 5000 grafts in one pass.........not 2500-3000.

As for the coverage per graft.........as long as the surgeon is strategically using only 1's when necessary for the hairline and multi's everywhere else that should be no different from one clinic to the next.