Dr. Feller Transplant clinic is one of the better known clinics in the New York area. Dr. Alan Feller has good reputation as a FUHT strip hair transplant doctor and is quite active in hair loss communities on the internet. His clinic is in Great Neck, New York.

Dr. Feller is also quite knowledgeable about FUE hair transplant. He has patented at least 1 surgical tool that is designed to perform FUE procedures. Dr. Feller is also not shy about sharing his views on various occasions in our forum about this revolutionary procedure.

In his opinions, Dr. Feller believe that doctors should inform their patients of the three destructive forces that can work against FUE, and these forces are not present in STRIP cases:

1. Torsion
2. Traction
3. Compression

In a heated debate between Dr. Feller and Dr. Woods, Dr. Feller has the following comments:

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Dr. Woods:

I only get interested in particular competitors when they make questionable claims or intimations. You claim loudly that your technique is better than the FUE technique of any competitor. That may or may not be true. I simply challenge your claim. If you are going to go public with such a pronouncement, then I can certainly challenge it on a public forum. Which I have done, and continue to do. To date you have only attacked me instead of supporting your claim.

I wonder, for all your “patient’s rights” rhetoric, do you provide complete “Informed Consent”? Specifically, the fact that FUE grafts must undergo 3 traumatic forces that strip grafts never endure:

1. Torsion
2. Traction
3. Compression
(and a few other minor ones).

For those of you out there who have wondered why FUE has not yet put an end to STRIP, it is because of these 3 detrimental forces. In the best of hands these forces are minimized, that’s what my patents are all about, but even so, yields are STILL lower than with strip surgery and is why I believe that if large procedures are needed, they should be done with strip, not FUE. ( The exception, of course, being patients like Franklin who would rather never have a strip surgery again. That’s a different matter).

Personally, I couldn’t care less what techniques Dr. Woods uses. I doubt they are revolutionary or even interesting. But if he is going to claim superiority in this field, he is going to have start by at least telling his patients before surgery the true differences between strip surgery and FUE surgery. Specifically, the limitations of FUE surgery.

Well, Dr. Woods. How about it? Do you inform your patients of these three destructive FUE forces prior to surgery? 1. Torsion 2. Traction 3. Compression ?

You see, HT doctors do not make patients sign “waivers” as Dr. Woods loves to claim in his never ending effort to vilify other HT doctors. What he clearly doesn’t understand is that patients CAN’T “waive” their rights. That’s what makes them “rights”. And what he calls “rights” aren’t actually “rights”.

What HT doctors actually give patients is an INFORMED CONSENT document that TELL them what possible problems they might face should they decide to go ahead with a procedure. It also INFORMS them, specifically, of the downside of any procedure and that ALTERNATIVE treatments were discussed (in some states). The three detrimental forces of FUE and their resulting lower yields for FUE procedures must be included to have offered full informed consent.

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For more details, the specific thread in the hair transplant forum.

Eyelash transplant results by Dr. Robert Jones, using minimally invasive FUE hair transplant technique. No knife, no scalpel, no stitches,  no visible scarring. This technique can work very well for both eyebrow and eyelash loss. Very often, 1 session is all it takes.

Hair Orientation in Hair Transplantation, an in-depth discussion by Dr. Cole on important factors that must be considered about hair orientation in every hair transplant procedure. Lateral slit techniques and its potential benefits over the vertical or parasagittal slit is addressed.

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