Hair Restoration Blog

According to a recent L.A. Times article, people in our current economy are scaling back on elective cosmetic treatments, and finding ways to negotiate costs and figuring out what’s really necessary (e.g. Botox) and what’s not (e.g. massages and body scrubs).  We have posted on Recession and hair transplant cost before.

US Hair Restoration understands that people have found themselves in challenging economic circumstances. Our goal has always been, “offering quality hair transplant for everyone”. We want to relieve the pressure on people by responding to patients’ needs for more affordable hair transplant prices.

Every year, we have a summer hair transplant special, but this year, we’re going to offer it several months in advance as part of an unprecedented and huge hair transplant cost reduction. And we promise it will be the lowest price ever for our hair transplants using our standby program.

For those who are seriously considering getting a hair restoration procedure, the best time to get one is when we have this reduced-price offer. This is a limited offer and the price might not ever be this low. Now is the time to take advantage of it.

Offering hair transplant cost discounts in our standby program helps us to fill all openings in our operating room schedules. On the other hand, for those people who can be a bit more flexible with the timing of the surgery, it helps them get a US Hair Restoration-quality hair transplant done at historically low rates, at one of our Southern California offices: Beverly Hills, Encino, and Orange County.

The bright side to the recession is that retailers and companies are offering lower-than-usual prices for their products, knowing consumers have become increasingly tight-fisted about their cash. Our earlier-than-usual summer special is our way of saying we are sensitive to our patients’ financial circumstances.

Check US Hair Restoration for more info on our hair transplant promotions.

Someone just forwarded me an interesting article from the LA Times that was recently published.  The author was visiting one of the open houses of a hair transplant surgical clinic recently and was amazed to see a good crowd despite of the current recession and financial slow down that has caused patient volume in cosmetic-surgery facilities to fall by a third, according to the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery.  The author found a waiting room full of guys who were willing to spend as much as $20,000 a piece to restore what nature was taking away.

He says: “…increasingly these days, another incentive for men to undergo hair-transplant surgery is a desire to be more competitive in a challenging job market.”  The article quotes Dr. Rassman as: “Society discriminates against bald people. If you have two people coming in for a job, and one of them is partly bald, you’ll think that the one with hair has more youth and vitality.”  He continues as “Many full-headed people have a hard time understanding the problems of balding people.”  The author talks to several balding men requiring hair restoration information at his hair transplant clinic.  One of the patients said, a more youthful appearance would definitely improve his chances if one had to start looking for work — which he hopes won’t happen any time soon, but you never know with the way things are.

The article continues as: With hair-transplant surgery, healthy hair is removed from the back of the scalp and replanted up top.  Sometimes it grows in nice and evenly. Other times, you have to grow it long where it takes root and settle for a comb over. And other times, judging from some websites out there, things can go very wrong and you’re worse off than when you began.  Potential patients will want to shop around carefully.  Rahul Gupta, 28, works as a mechanical engineer for a company he’d rather not name.  (”We do a lot of defense work,” he explained.)  Like David, he’s mindful of how a hirsute appearance can influence one’s career prospects.

I found this article interesting and I have to say, I personally had many patients whom have visited me as soon as they heard that they are being laid off from their job.  The job market is tight now, but there are plenty of opportunities in getting what you want at a discounted rate.  For example, we came up with a standby program to help people who can be flexible with their schedules fill our openings and get discounts on their hair transplant cost.  If you are competing with a lot of qualified candidates that just lost their job, you need to use any help you can possibly get to become more competitive.