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    Default My great fut experience with dr ball of maitland clinic

    This is about my FUT/scar revision experience with Dr Ball of the Maitland Clinic in London.

    A couple of years ago I had an FUT with another Harley street hair clinic. It was my first one and so I had no idea what to expect.

    Initially I was fairly satisfied with the results, happy to have filled in the troubled temple areas, but as the hairline grew in I could see there were quite a few issues. Some of the grafts were placed without much care or thought for the natural movements of the hair. Secondly, there weren’t enough single hair grafts in the front hairline to create softness which resulted in a harsh looking hair line, and lastly the scar was bigger than I would have liked.

    In regards to the pre-op and post-op care these were minimal. I also found the consultation to be very rushed and I distinctly remember leaving with unanswered questions afterwards.

    “So why go with this particular company?” is of course the obvious question.

    Those who have gone down this journey themselves will appreciate just how eager one can be to get started and to have the transplant and to have their hair back. The sooner you have the procedure the sooner you have your hair. Right?

    Unfortunately though, that expensive new hairline oftentimes comes at a detriment to quality and care. With hindsight I can now see this is a false economy as you will only end up having to sort out any issues later on. Why rush? Trust me there is something worse than thinning hair and that’s a fake looking hairline.

    Fortunately for me, I rigorously searched online and was able to set up a consultation with Dr Edward Maitland Ball and David Anderson the senior patient advisor at the Maitland Clinic in London. From the moment we met the experience could not have been more different and I was very quickly cursing myself for not having found them before.

    We met in their Harley Street premises and discussed all the options available to me in a very honest and open manner. We settled on doing a scar revision, using some of the available grafts to create a fuller and more natural hairline. Throughout the discussion I never felt I was pushed in any direction or that any sales tactics were being used. Indeed, just as you are assessing them they are doing the same to gauge your eligibility for the procedure, which I think is a healthy relationship to have between client and practitioner.

    Dr Ball evidently enjoys his profession and is clearly extremely passionate about his subject. I found his demeanour to be one of calmness and collection which certainly puts one at ease as the experience can understandably be somewhat nerve-racking.

    He agreed that the scar was larger than he would have been satisfied with and that the hairline could do with refining. We discussed a plan the involved excising the scar tissue in order to achieve a thinner scar and to provide enough grafts to create a natural looking frontal hairline. We scheduled in a procedure for a couple of weeks later to take place in their Hampshire clinic, a quick car trip out of London.

    The day of the procedure itself was a breeze. The clinic is nicely fitted out and feels a world away from the hustle and bustle of London offering a level of discretion that perhaps a central city location isn’t able to do. We spent the first hour or so in conversation and drawing up a new hairline which was very exciting. Dr Ball has a “less is more” approach to creating natural hairlines and this is certainly a view that I align with.

    Once we began the only pain I felt were the few initial pin pricks of the local anaesthesia and after that I was able to relax for practically the whole day. I only had about 900 grafts which isn’t a huge amount but Dr Ball took great care in finding and placing the right ones. He used many single hair grafts to create a natural density at the front and even removed some of the old transplanted grafts from the first procedure which he said “gave the game away”. I couldn’t have agreed more. In hairlines, fractional shifts can make huge cosmetic differences.

    For the first few days after the procedure I had minimal soreness, no swelling, and no redness. After 5 days you honestly would have no idea I had had anything done. Even the donor incision looked extremely neat which I couldn’t have predicted so early on. My fingers are crossed for a pencil thin scar but whatever happens I’m sure it will be a major improvement on the initial donor scar.

    The post-op care package was great and was explained in detail by Jana Shafer, (formally of Shapiro Medical, which shows the calibre of people the clinic has on board). I stuck to it religiously and also tried to eat as healthily as possible for the weeks following which I have no doubt contributed to a faster healing time.

    Now I am looking forward to the next year with a renewed confidence and sense of excitement as the hair grows in and the scar becomes almost invisible.

    For those of you looking for a professional and talented team in the UK to help you on your hair journey you could do much worse than the Maitland Clinic. Results speak loudest in the world of hair procedures and theirs are second to none.

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