SMP in Seattle

[vandelae]

This is my first post, but I can promise I have absolutely no affiliation with any person or company in the hair restoration field, that seems to be an issue sometimes here. I'm a 52 yr old man with hair loss beginning around 25 years ago, and I have been shaving my head ever since.

I've been curious about SMP for about 6 months, and as luck would have it, hair clinic had a little open house this past Friday in Seattle where they have recently opened an office in a downtown medical building. So I went for a consultation with, who was in town for the open house.

His head looks pretty darn good. He told me his last touch up was 7 years ago. My first glance at him, when he entered the waiting room and I did not know who he was, had me thinking his hairline looked natural. It frames his face the way a real hairline would. Upon further close examination, in the consultation area, I retained a very good impression of what the SMP treatment looked like. I had to look very carefully to see where his actual hair started and the SMP stopped. I think Ian is probably a 6 or 7 on the Norwood scale, which is what I am also.

Did his head look absolutely, perfectly, like a shaved head with a full head of hair? Almost, but not exactly. I didn't see individual hair follicles in the treated area of his scalp so much on very close examination. Still, it looked pretty natural to me. It looked like you would not know unless you were told and you looked very carefully. It looked like it would fool at least 99% of the casual observers you might come across. And since he had his done so long ago, I'm hopeful that my treatment will be as good or possibly better, since they've had lots of time to improve their techniques and tools.

One thing I regret is that my girlfriend could not make it due to work. I was dying to get a second opinion from her, she has a great eye and is very skeptical of this SMP thing.

I also got to see a guy in the treatment room getting his head done. He was only 30 minutes or so into the treatment and I asked him if it hurt. He said it stung a little bit but no big deal. I wished him luck.

So I'm almost sure I'm going to go ahead with the SMP procedure. I'm not really desperate about solving my baldness, I've lived this way for a long time already and life is good. But this seems like it will make an improvement to my life and I'm all for making improvements.

Anyone want to talk me out of this? I'm all ears. I don't want to do something I regret. But if seeing is believing, I'm now a believer. I'll post some before and afters if I do the treatment. And if anyone has any questions I'll be happy to do my best to answer them.

Aaron