Patient Reviews

My wife and I met with Dr Wasserbauer last week. So many great things I can say. Her entire office staff so kind and professional, and then upon meeting with Dr Wasserbauer I was not only amazed at her knowledge of various hair treatments but that she was able to walk us through various processes.

She was truthful, honest, kind and actually very intriguing to visit with. I have never left a doctor's appointment wanting to send a thank you card and a gift certificate for them.

I can’t say enough, SO impressed. She earned a lifelong client

Dr Wasserbauer and her entire team were amazing, professional and took care of everything imaginable the day of the procedure. This was a big decision for me and I have no hesitation at all recommending Dr Sara and her team to anyone. I will plan to come back for further additional improvements!

If you have the money, (the procedure is expensive - especially for me as I had such severe hair loss I needed 2 procedures) it is worth every penny. My procedures were done years ago and I have noticed no changes to my hair since that time. Every day, when I look in the mirror and brush out the ‘bed head’, I feel a great sense of contentment. I feel better about my self. Dr. Wasserbaur (who I nicknamed Superwoman) has tremendous skills such that I have to tell people I had hair transplants. Even then, the look is so natural many need some convincing. The procedures were painless to me and the aftercare period was not challenging and not very long.
I have the highest regard for Dr. Wasserbaur’s skills and I highly recommend her and the procedure. Pricey though it is, there is a whole lot of bang for the bucks.

From beginning to end, my hair transplant experience and follow-up were an overall 9 out of 10! Dr. Wasserbauer and her team have made me very happy and improved my life. I was so impressed by how the doctor and staff were super well coordinated, a beehive of efficient activity. They definitely make people's lives better with improved self-confidence. We only live once, and I am thankful I decided to take charge of my hair loss!

Looking for hair restoration?

Why Dr. Sara Wasserbauer?

I’ve just experienced Dr. Sara’s restoration and must genuinely share why I recommend it.

Being coordinated by her staff to find the right day that fit Dr. Sara’s calendar and mine went well, despite Dr. Sara being so popular and requiring planning ahead…

What made the most significant difference between my expectations based on what my friends have shared about their hair restorations with other hair restoration physicians and what I experienced with Dr Sara and her team are multiple items:

Communication
The clear and comforting communication was outstanding from my arrival, with verbal descriptions of what to expect and how the treatment steps would be completed during the day, and included a step-by-step guide to logically following the post-operative treatment at home.

Expertise
Technically, Dr. Sara described where she targeted to restore my hair with a handful of easily understood logical explanations as to how my hair restorations would best be placed and how the integration with my existing hair would be optimized.

Perhaps most comforting was that every single member of Dr. Sara’s staff, from the reception to the operating room to the follow-up advisor, was so good at describing and sharing what awaited me in each of the steps going forward throughout the day.

The team clearly advised as to how to best work through what I was to do at home in the next few days to ensure optimum growth and retention.

I have never been this moved by a physician, as well as every single member of a physician’s team, ever before!

Please understand that I have a great deal of experience with physicians, as my sister is also a physician. I’m very fluent in the challenges physicians face.

How did I find Dr Sara?
I didn’t find Dr Sara online or by guessing. I asked one of the physicians I trust dearly at home where I live as to which hair restoration physician was the best in the western states.

After thoroughly researching and contacting those my physician trusted in hair restoration, for which he worked as an intern, he recommended Dr. Sara Wasserbauer, who I can truly strongly recommend after experiencing Dr. Sara firsthand.

Dr. Sara’s offices are in the Bay Area in California, and a handful of hotels are minutes away from her offices. You can fly into either San Francisco or Oakland to experience perhaps the best hair restoration available in our entire country.

Enjoy the lifelong benefits:)

Fred

I had my transplant done Oct 22, 2022 (FUT). I held off writing a review earlier because I wanted to let the procedure "do its magic." Well, it has been one year plus counting and my hair growth has been awesome! I look great and feel much younger. I am an older guy.

Dr Sara is THE BEST in the hair restoration field! She is easy to talk to and answered all my questions and concerns. Her office staff are great to work with. Hi Nae and Ann!

This is the best investment I ever made. Yes, it's better than crypto!!!

Dr. Wasserbauer and her team are exemplary in every capacity. If you need help with hair loss and you do not consider seeking out Dr. Wasserbauer, you are making a BIG mistake. She deserves her unrivaled reputation, and if you deserve the best, look no further. I have very high expectations and am used to the highest level of service in all important areas of my life. This experience was no exception. You are welcome!

I am a trans woman, and I know lots of trans women go to Dr. Wasserbauer. She is excellent. I've been wearing a hair system the last few months, and when I took it off to go see her for the consultation I suspected that my hair was too fine and too thin for transplants to really be worth it (they'd never look as good as the hair system does). She asked about my goals, and I said ideally it would look like the hair system. I could tell from her expression that this wasn't realistic, and she confirmed that. It was very nice and gentle, but very honest. She talked about better, higher-quality hair systems than the one I use, and she gave me her cell number if I had more questions. She also offered me ice cream! She explained that I could get hair transplants that would look feminine, but the thinness of the coverage would age me: I'd look like a woman who was losing her hair (instead of like a balding man, as I do now), Switching male-pattern for female baldness didn't seem like an exciting use of 20k. She did say that if I got a good hair system but it still wasn't quite doing the trick, she could transplant a lot of hair to the front of my head, creating a nice, full hairline that would help disguise the hair system.

A lot of people who work with trans women either lie to us to get our money, or they treat us like an imposition and refuse to think through our unique problems. I can count on three fingers the number of providers I've met who don't commit one of those two errors, and of those three, Wasserbauer is the best. I feel like putting your hair into someone's hands is a sacred responsibility. If people just wanted the procedure done, they could go to the Czech Republic or Turkey to do it. They come to a US doctor in the hopes that the doctor will fully understand and enter into your headspace and think about your goals. It is unrealistic to expect a patient to walk into an office already fully conversant with what a procedure can reasonably accomplish, but most doctors put that burden on you--the other hair transplant surgeon I went to had no compunctions about saying he could help me. At the same time, I didn't get a gate-keeping vibe from Dr. Wasserbauer. She wasn't barring me from getting a procedure; just thinking about what could best help me. I think if you go under the knife with her, you can be confident that she thinks she can help you with your goals, and, unfortunately, that is not something every doctor or caregiver is willing to do.

I am a business professional in a Senior- level position. I also have a military background. About 4 years ago, my sideburns started to fall out. No explanation, just got thinner and disappeared. Needless to say, I started to feel very self-conscious about it and tried to start cutting the sides of my head hair short. It did, however, still not look right. Even with a military cut, still did not look right. I started to pursue other options, going to the big-name companies for hair restoration. Their focus was always on the rest of my head, the back, the front, areas that I was quite content with. Always trying to upsell me and very really listened to my real concerns. My sideburn area was completely hairless and it created an awkward line between where I had no hair and where it grew thick. I was embarrassed and devastated. I then learned of another option called Scalp Micropigmentation or SMP for short. I looked around and after much research, ended up sitting across from the SMP technician from California Hair Surgeon, we met in the San Francisco office. That day, my life changed. The technician was a true professional, she was very open and honest about what she could do and what she would not be able to do. Very clear on expectations. She is a scalp micro pigmentation specialist that all others should aspire to become. She is a master at her craft who truly understands how to listen to someone's needs and then she executes on it. Her work is nothing less than excellent. Almost a year and a half later, my sideburns still look complete and blended into the rest of my hair. I continue to enjoy a natural look, you cannot tell that I had the SMP treatment, this is how good their work is. She also had to reconstruct my hairline from slightly below my temple to where most people's sideburns end. It really looks good, due to the magic she brings in her work. You too can change your life.

Here is a 2 year update. The transplant process went very well. As expected, it takes about 6 months to start to see some clear results. Then the growth gets better and better. I went back for my 1 year checkup in the summer of 2019. At that point, the growth of the grafts was excellent and I was very pleased. The 1 year checkup therefore was fairly uneventful, since everything had gone well, and I saw no need for any further grafts. So no further followup checks were needed.

Now at 2 years out, the thickness has improved even further and I am very pleased with the results. I am very pleased with my choice of going with Dr. Wasserbauer. The best thing was that Dr. Wasserbauer told me that in my case, she can do a single session with a large number of grafts, and that would probably be enough for me to be happy with the results, and that has turned out to be the case! Some other docs who I had consultations with wanted to do multiple rounds of a smaller number of grafts. However, a surgery is a surgery, and I really didn't want to have to get repeat procedures done if it could be helped. So I am pleased to have gone with Dr. Wasserbauer, and in my case 1 round was truly all I needed to get the results I wanted! Of course that won't be the case with every patient's scenario, but in my case she was able to make a single session work.