Foundation For Hair Restoration's Online Review Report Card
Foundation For Hair Restoration
3.8
Average Star Rating
30
Total Reviews
0
Recent Reviews
2
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Accepts Medicare
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Review Summary
Dr. Epstein's practice received 66.7% positive feedback, with patients highlighting the professional and attentive staff, high-quality results, and excellent communications. However, 33.3% of the feedback was negative, primarily citing inconsistent procedure outcomes, pressure to purchase additional products, and lack of follow-up. Overall, the clinic excels in patient care, yet it needs better procedural consistency and client communications.ScoreDoc Score
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List of Foundation For Hair Restoration's Reviews
Whole team are amazing and should be proud of the way in which they conduct themselves and care for their patients Dr Epstein is truly the best at what he does!
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The difference between DrEpstein.after 15k and fue clinic LA 15 k. Results. Zero from Epstein. Please dont make mistakes. Choose wisely. It was a nightmare. Fue LA restored my hair. Epstein claimed it 'looked full to him'! After allot of pain and 15 k. Not well regarded amongst his peers it seems.
I have worked with Dr. Epstein and his office for over 10 years. I believe he is a talented professional. However, over the years I have thought that the professionalism of his office and the experience as a client has slowly deteriorated. On my last experience, I had three, consecutive follow up visits rescheduled - all due to "the doctor has a surgery". A fourth, and the final time I rescheduled, I waited for over an hour until I had to leave without being seen due to my schedule. I let office staff know along the way to no avail. At various points, I was approached by other staff people selling ancillary products, but never addressing my basic need for a follow up. And ultimately when I complained, I was told that my experience was unique and never really happens to others (doubtful). I was also made to feel like I was to blame for these issues, since I had missed an appointment early on (while I might have cancelled late - I would never not show up). So, essentially, I believe Dr. Epstein is a skilled, talented professional who unfortunately is too scarce to provide sufficient value from a client perspective. I complained to the "intake coordinator" and office manager - and there was never any attempt to authentically address my grievances, which is actually shocking in today's service environment. I would still rate Dr. Epstein a B, the procedure overall a B-, the general office staff a C and the overall experience a D. This is my first negative review online, so I am not someone that takes these postings lightly. I would encourage people seeking to do business with Dr. Epstein to look for the kind of practice he had when he began his career. Clearly, growth and the focus on revenue has significantly deteriorated the service experience. =============== Continued Below After Being Contacted by Dr. Epstein Dr. Epstein contacted me based on the review above. He sincerely apologized for the experience I had and convincingly applied corrective measures within his practice. I was impressed by his genuine concern for the reputation of his practice and for my care. I chose to leave me original review "as is" because I believe the best outcomes, are these - ones where you know things can and often will go wrong, but at the end of the day, you also want to know that the owner will take ultimate responsibility and correct the situation. I have chosen to continue with Dr. Epstein as my specialist, and I, admittedly, have new respect for him and his practice.========== Final Update Sadly, it appears that Dr. Epstein was never sincere about changing anything. He just did and said what was necessary to have the review changed. He offered a discount on laser therapy and continue dealing with his office staff. An email was inadvertently copied to me where it became clear that the staff was simply appeasing a "difficult client". Anyone who knows me would adamantly disagree. There was never any willingness to look at the deficiencies in the practice but to simply manage me. Nonetheless, there's a lot to be said for inertia - so I was interested in tattooing or another procedure even after the email incident. When I contacted Dr. Epstein he said I would need to come in and discuss since I had had problems in the past - to which I mentioned the email - which seemed to make me the problem. At that point he felt it was better we part ways. I agreed. The best outcome possible. I found services elsewhere and was very pleased, and in the end realized this practice was more concerned with reputation tied to money than client experience and service.
I normally do not leave reviews, but I did not have a good experience with this provider. I had a FUT hair transplant with over 2200 grafts, and the most shocking part was that I barely saw Dr. E throughout the entire procedure. Being new to this procedure, nervous, and invested (upwards of $10k), I had expected to be hand held. I later realized that there were multiple procedures happening simultaneously. This is how the doctors in this industry make money. About 5 years later I found a doctor who only does one procedure a day (a rarity) and when he first saw me, he did not even notice any of the previously transplanted hairs. This new doctor was great, and the results were fantastic. Save your money, find a doctor that only does one per day. They exist!
Dr. Epstein really has an eye for facial aesthetics. I give him the highest rating possible and highly recommend him to patients who are interested in facial plastic surgery. He's the best!
I just had my second and final transplant with Dr. Epstein's practice (Found Hair). The first was about 8 years ago (2000 grafts) with Dr. Epstein and one last month with his associate Dr. Bared (1800 grafts). Both procedure went very smoothly with quality results. I have a while to wait to see growth on the 2nd one but am confident it will look great! You get what you pay for when it comes to hair transplants and having a highly skilled doctor is so important. Reduced healing time, placement of the grafts, survival of the grafts, etc... The staff was very professional and I was very comfortable with them. GREAT JOB!
It's good to see all the positive reviews here.Ima physician myself in south Florida. But my result has not been satisfactory at all! Yes Dr Epstein is very nice very professional, yes all his staff at the office are very caring and professional. But what's the point when the end result is nothing. I am not new to hair transplant ( unfortunately) and I had a procedure done internationally more than 12 years ago when this whole ( hair transplant) thing came about. It was done international at 1/4th the price with Excellent results. But here I saw nothing! Even got a coupe of PRP sessions that they gave for free! But nothing. Basically I wasted all that money and went through all that discomfort for nothing! I'm not sure if it's bad technique, lack of expertise or whatever. Results don't lie !! So whoever decides to get this procedure PLEASE keep that in mind. Again this review has nothing to do with the Doctor or staff personally. They treated me very courteously and professionally. Even when I went back for follow up where the physician agreed that my result was not good at all.
I would never recommend this surgeon to anyone. Not only did I overpay for my eyebrow transplant but never got the full results. Dr Epstein tells you he will be performing the surgeries himself but has two other hair technicians that he supposedly oversees them while they operate. Its been more than a year and I went back to ask why my eyebrow were not filling in properly. He blamed it on the way he placed the hairstrokes and because I had done micro blading the 3 previous years before. When I asked if they can rectify, the staff made it completely impossible for me to book an appointment to redo my procedure. After I began being persistent enough I finally got a spot on his calandar for a 2,500 additional payment And get this. He said he cant guarantee that my hairs would take this time. If I can go back in time I would. Please stay away from this doctor and his practice.
Beware, this doctor is operating multiple google accounts to hide from bad reviews and low ratings on his original page. It's been 10 years since my procedure with Dr. Epstein, I've been through hell and back. Look him up in Miami Dade public records and you will see the truth behind his practice, sued so many times. Beware of the way he words himself during the consultation, as he will drive down the point that it the"results won't look as nature did" in order to be free of liability (he will also make you sign an agreement which prevents you from winning in court if you decide to sue him).How can he state that his procedures look natural and then say otherwise? During the consultation we only spoke of a micro graft procedure with a donor strip that would run from ear to ear. Come the day of the surgery he waited till I was strung on valium to make the cut only half the way basically skewing my head and face towards one side.I had agreed to have a med school intern participate in the procedure, this girl had no idea of what was going down. Having harvested insufficient hair he proceeded to work on the left frontal temple area starting from the front in order to leave a gaping hole once he ran out of hair and had the intern do the opposite, essentially securing an unpleasing result. The worst part of it is that once he cuts half of the strip you are subject to having another half procedure before you can get a full strip harvested or your head will always look like it has a slanted toupee on top.That way he guarantees that you'll be at his mercy. I paid $5,700 for what he called 1200 grafts, mind you those were probably 50 hair bundles separated into groups of 2 and 1 hairs, the end result wispy and sparse . He cuts very thin strip so he can get you back for more and boast about how the scar is undetectable. I had been saving money for 2 years prior to my procedure, I wish he told me how much for a completed job, the truth now I know, no one gets a complete job for less than $20,000. The results of his procedure took me on a downward spiral full of anxiety, depression which led me to substance abuse , job loss and even a brush with the law.I was finally able to put an end to this nightmare this year as you can see in my profile photo and I have a google review for the surgeon who fixed it.
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