♪ I can feel it in my bones, deep down ♪
♪ When I wake, forget your face ♪
♪ Let me have that piece fall into place ♪
(somber string music)
- [Dr. Collins] So, James, if you'd come this way.
How've you been, good?
- Good, yeah. - Go on inside with me.
- Excited to see what you think!
- No problems? - No problems at all.
And it's been exciting to watch the new hairs grow
and integrate with the old hair,
but I'm really happy with the results.
And everyone, everyone who, y'know, has seen me
maybe six months ago and I've seen them now
for the first time and they're like, wow!
So, yeah.
- So, James, I never hear anybody
tellin' me I'm better looking.
I hear the words self-esteem, self-confidence,
contentment and peace of mind.
And I'm sure you would agree with those sentiments.
- 100%, I do think I'm better looking, though, as well.
(laughing)
- The emphasis is not on the appearance, it's how you feel.
And, y'know, when I started this clinic 20 years ago,
hair transplantation was a totally taboo subject.
Nobody would talk about it, it was hidden.
But a man of your age, now, and everybody's open about it.
And I'm not putting words in your mouth
but I guarantee there hasn't been one negative comment
from any friends, or--
- Oh, not at all, no.
And only curiosity as well, from the guys
who maybe are going through hair loss.
And yeah, I like noticed, even in the last six months
a lot of people are talking, men are talking about it
a bit more, about what, y'know, I interact with daily.
I'm getting a lot of messages from people who are
now kinda curious about getting consultations
and stuff, so, yeah, it's nice for those kinda taboos
to fade away and everyone just to be
a bit more freer with, yeah.
- So, hair is very, very important to men
but years ago, they just had to suffer in silence.
And thankfully, with people like yourself
now going very public about it,
the taboo aspect of it is now gone.
But as a result, a lot of people think
this is an easy process.
And I think the consultation aspect is very, very important.
And I hope you picked that up. - Totally, yeah.
'Cause everyone's different, d'you know what I mean?
- I've never, it's a bit like playing golf.
No two golf courses are ever the same.
And I've never done the same hair transplant on anybody.
But I have to see whether a patient psychologically
prepared for the procedure
and also whether they have donor hair.
And obviously, you hit both of those very well.
What does a hair transplant meant to you,
you know, you had a pre-conceived notion
of what it might be like
before you came in to us.
It's all a bit scary, when you're calling down in
from the technical aspect.
But now the technical aspects have been settled,
and you're six months on.
How do you feel about it now?
- I know you say that it's bigger than people think,
the whole operation and stuff,
but I felt it was a lot easier than what I thought
and I was kind of scared coming in here
but I found that, you know, everyone you work with
is so calming and so lovely.
So I found that part of it actually kind of relaxing.
And now, I dunno, it has given me a bit more confidence
and I loved hair when I was growing up,
I always had a big, huge, thick head of hair.
And then when I started to kind of lose it
I was gettin' a bit sad.
Because, you know, I thought that, this is the end,
you know, and now I kinda,
I dunno, I have a bit more pep in my step or something.
I feel a bit more happier about how I look,
and so, yes, it's meant confidence, I think.
- What a lot of men seem to be,
when the hair is fully grown,
you're only six months now, so there's more growth to come
but when a man comes in and he says,
Maurice, I don't think about my hair anymore.
I can walk past a mirror without looking at it constantly.
- [James] That's exactly what I think.
Yeah, I'm not- - And it's there.
It's natural, it's you.
Here on the,
the new hair is such a big transplant,
and I must say the growth is exceptionally good.
It looks completely natural.
- And since I've seen you,
now you're doing laser hair removal,
so you're taking hair from people.
- James I was just lookin' at--
- I know! - It's a lovely sound,
they have these big hairy legs.
I'm not suggesting for a minute to have you
remove the hair off your legs,
but you're very observant.
We put it on and we take it away.
- I know! - It's ironic.
- So that's a new service, now?
- Yeah, as we have a lot of influence
on cosmetic surgery here.
We have decided to introduce laser hair removal.
- Half of this video, I might go
through some frequently asked questions.
Questions I get asked from guys all of the time
in relation to the transplant.
So, one of the first ones is the cost of this.
So, while I would always recommend to guys who message me
is to get a consultation first,
because as Dr. Maurice says, no two golf courses is the same
and no two hair losses, patterns, are the same.
So, while I think I had like 4,000 grafts,
someone else might need that much
or someone else might need more or can give more
if their donor hair is good.
So everyone is different.
Some people just do the medication,
some people then decide after the consultation
that they don't want it done,
'cause they hear the whole, how, y'know, everything goes.
So, the consultation I think is 250 euro in here,
so I think just get the consultation done first
and go from there.
And then decide.
Another question I get asked is do you have to
shave your head?
For my, for my specific transplant I had to shave my head.
I found it, I liked the look of a shaved head on me,
so I didn't mind it much and so yeah.
And then another question I get asked a lot is
is it sore and how long is the recovery period.
So when you come in, you get your head shaved
and then you get some nice little happy pills
and you feel nice.
I didn't find it painful whatsoever,
you get numbing injections in your head.
So your whole head goes numb and then you're sat into
a room and you can watch Netflix.
And then you break for lunch,
so you're awake for the whole thing.
But I found no pain whatsoever in the harvesting of the hair
or the planting of the hair.
So, yeah, no, soreness isn't an issue.
There is a bit of aftercare, then, when you go home.
You have to spray your head every,
I think it's 20 minutes with a solution
for the first 24 hours
and then there's some slight redness, then, after a few days
but there's zero pain.
So, yeah, that's the FA, that's the main FAQs anyway.