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Any doctor who transplants thousands of FUE grafts per session isn't harvesting the grafts by themselves - they have a team of techs doing the extractions, which makes your criticism sort of irrelevant. You want to compare doctors but you're comparing apples and oranges (doctors vs. techs). Doctors who do smaller FUE sessions shouldn't automatically be criticized, in many cases they may be exercising more caution than the FUE doctors who do huge sessions. Doctors shouldn't be criticized for being cautious, if it's in the interest of protecting the patient. And there are clinics where techs do pretty much the entire surgery, except creating the recipient sites. If a team of techs can do a 5000 graft FUE surgery, I'm not impressed - I'm paying for the doctor's experience and hands-on treatment, not the techs' experience.
In my case, I wasted $36,000 on FUE with an extremely egotistical "hotshot" doctor who did three consecutive FUE sessions, and virtually none of the grafts grew. Most of the procedure was done by techs, as the doctor wandered in and out of surgery repeatedly. In the end it was a total failure, with zero growth. Now would I have gotten some growth if this irresponsible doctor had done smaller sessions, spread out over time? I don't know, but it's a fair question.
Anyway, don't think that a measure of quality is how big the FUE session is.
In my case, I wasted $36,000 on FUE with an extremely egotistical "hotshot" doctor who did three consecutive FUE sessions, and virtually none of the grafts grew. Most of the procedure was done by techs, as the doctor wandered in and out of surgery repeatedly. In the end it was a total failure, with zero growth. Now would I have gotten some growth if this irresponsible doctor had done smaller sessions, spread out over time? I don't know, but it's a fair question.
Anyway, don't think that a measure of quality is how big the FUE session is.
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