The McAndrews Method Essential Attributes
What makes us different? Four essential qualities that are the best path to your most successful outcome. The McAndrews Method, by definition, implies each attribute is applied by the doctor—hands-on.
1. Technologically Advanced
We employ the latest techniques and technologies to maximize graft growth rates. To date, the stereoscopic microscope and natural hair groupings methodologies are unparalleled for highest possible success. As technology changes with the times, rest assured Dr. McAndrews, as a Clinical Professor at USC School of Medicine, remains on the cutting edge of all medical and surgical advancements in the field of hair loss.
2. Integrity
Patient first. All of our medical and cosmetic decisions are based upon what is best for the patient. If a transplant or particular technique is not in the patient’s best interest, it should not
be performed. Sometimes this means going against the patient’s wishes.
3. Training
The McAndrews Method calls for any physician who performs hair transplants to be formally trained in both the medical specialty of dermatology (the experts in hair loss) and, more importantly, in the surgical art of hair restoration. Anything less is not sufficient to ensure a good result. (Most hair transplant facilities offer services headed by doctors of various specialties that have no formal training in the surgical art of hair restorations.
4. Expertise
These techniques are complex. The McAndrews Method ensures an expert in his field, as acknowledged by being a faculty member of a major teaching university, is doing your surgery. If a physician is not skilled enough to teach this art to others, why trust your surgery to him? There are perhaps a “hand-full” of doctors in the world that possess all of these attributes. However, even if they are the “apparent standards” of a physician, if a technician is the substitute for each critical phase of the procedure, then
it is not within our guidelines. The McAndrews’ Method specifically calls for the physician with these attributes to apply them personally.
What don’t we do?
From risking donor hair to rushing surgeries, creating harsh hairlines to surgical shortcuts, there are many things our patients never need to worry about. Yet the McAndrews Method stands apart from other providers for one very notable reason: Dr. McAndrews’ personal hands-on approach, performed each day with the utmost expertise, technique and integrity. In addition:
Finally, the most striking difference with The McAndrews Method is that I perform every procedure personally—just one per day to ensure undivided attention and unequaled care. Also, as a Clinical Professor at USC School of Medicine, I have mastered the latest advances in hair loss procedures and transplantations and bring them to my patients. It shouldn’t be any other way, because you deserve nothing less.
— Paul J. McAndrews, M.D.