Leonard Hair Transplant Associates

After decades of watching my hairline recede along with using every advertised solution all to no avail, I contacted Dr. Leonard for a free consultation at the age of 62. He was very thorough in his assessment of my hair loss situation and explained what he could do for me and what I should expect. There was no pressure to commit.
Three weeks later I had the procedure, and now one year later, the transformation is absolutely incredible. I am satisfied with the outcome and happy I followed through with my decision. I noticed that people extended me more courtesy and spoke to me more respectfully, as time went by and regrowth became more noticeable. This has been both, a confidence «Booster» and a definite life-​changing event (in my life).
In closing, to all who are serious about having the procedure and are frustrated with hair loss, I highly recommend and strongly suggest contacting Dr. Leonard. He, along with his very competent staff, can give you the same life-​changing experience I now enjoy and will for years to come.

Do some research on hair transplantation and surgeons. Dr Robert Leonard overcharges and doesn’t provide a graft count so you basically don’t know what you’re getting for your hard earned money. He does do decent work but there’s much better hair transplant surgeons around who charge less and provide better results. There’s a lot of negative things being said about Dr Leonard online and not many positive things being said. I’ve personally had work done at LHTA and wouldn’t recommend them. To be 100% honest, the hair transplant industry is a disgrace in general. Once they suck you in, it’s a long hard road. From what I’ve read online, Dr Leonard was a real butcher years ago. A lot of repair cases are well documented online. At least now he only overcharges and does decent work. In short, not a bad surgeon if you need a small amount of work done but stay away if you need a lot of grafts. Simply put, Dr Leonard couldn’t do a mega session hair transplant if he wanted to. What he is good at is small sessions and bleeding money out of desperate patients. Therefore, you’re expected to return for multiple procedures when you could’ve got it right the first time if you stood away from LHTA. Good LUCK.

MIRACLES. That’s what Dr Leonard and Dr Lopresti perform every day. I’m a 3 time client. And to this day, not a single person, not even my mom has noticed my new head of hair. That’s how great their work is and how gradual the growth is. I’m grateful Dr Leonard is a pioneer, affordable, and an absolute PRO. Dr Lopresti is a shining example of how much Dr L cares for his clients, his legacy and business.
ME: I’m a 40 something father of two and have «suffered» MPB since my early 20’s. I don’t have a ton of money and convincing my wife to let me do this wasn’t easy. I had brought it up a few times and she was very skeptical. I had to lie to her saying we were going to a «mortgage broker» and when we got to Dr L’s office, she was like WTF? And I told her it was a consultation. She walked out of Dr L’s office feeling as good as I did.
For me, I was waiting for the technology to evolve and wanted to get it done before «it was too late». My research was based on the web. I’ve been to other docs offices and wasn’t impressed. Some hounded the heck out of me afterwards. I don’t listen to the radio or watch sports so I’ve never heard an ad for Dr L, but since, I’ve learned he’s everywhere. Which is great. Good for him and all those who have helped him grow so more guys can be at their full potential.
Losing hair SUCKS.
The entire process of considering, researching, paying and actually going through hair replacement is «angst». Taking hair from the back of your head and putting it on the front of your head is simply unnatural bordering on weird. And there is nothing any Dr can do to eliminate that. But Dr Leonard and his people project the calmest, most caring beside manner that any angst and awkwardness you have just fades away.
I remember my first procedure. And more so, afterwards. I was a bundle of nerves, must have called and emailed them 30 times with all kinds of odd concerns. Let’s face it, the procedure and process is «trauma» to your head and for me, being somewhat high strung, trauma to my emotions too, but Dr Leonard’s people put up with every call and email from me like they’ve dealt with it a thousand times and made me feel special, cared for and welcome no matter how much angst I had.
Hair loss itself is like a disease that we watch deteriorating our body every day. For some, no big deal, for others, it feels like we are «damaged», imperfect etc. And it makes us look older. Perspective: this sounds whiny compared to actual disease and illness. But the reality is, male pattern baldness just sucks and most of us lose something about ourselves as our hair falls out. We kind of «give up» almost. For me, it was a constant «thing» that just bothered me every single friggin time I looked in the mirror. Today, I look in the mirror and am amazed. It’s like walking into that vacation resort suite, and opening up the blinds to the deck, and «the big ocean stares you in the face feeling», every single day.
EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I’m so freaking happy.
When seeing friends, going to high school reunions etc, comments are «How is it possible you look younger every time I see you?» I hear that ALL the time.
All I feel towards Dr L and his team is gratitude. Thank you Sir. Frankly, it may sound weird, but I love you. I thank you every day. My wife thanks you to.
PS, Anyone who comments differently is simply whiny and ungrateful. Sorry.

I wish I had better things to say about LHTA because I am a huge Rob Nincovich fan, unfortunately I am NOT a huge LHTA fan. I think that the adverstising is the main thing that really keeps this place afloat, and i am guessing we, as patients, pay for that big time.
LHTA runs a bit like a car dealership and you get the feeling as if you are on an assembly line, very few genuine connections are made. In particular, Dr Lopresti did not come across as very genuine and said some things about elderly patients during my procedure that were less than caring, not a good sign in a physician, especially one that trained in rehabilitation medicine.
Also even though I had specifically asked Dr Leonard to do the procedure he only did the front of my scalp and then had the much much more junior Dr Lopresti do the whole back portion. The incisions by both Dr. s were done very fast and consequently sheared and cut away a lot of the existing hair i had in that area, so immediately after the surgery my head looked ALOT MORE BALD, then it ever had before. This was not shock loss (when neighboring follicles are traumatized and shed their hairs because of the incisions around them) because it was apparent immediately after the procedure. I have had two previous surgeries at Bosley years ago and this had never happened before because they took much more time to place the incisions without destroying the existing hair. So this was not shock loss, this was immediate mechanical-​induced loss and was pretty preventable if either Dr had taken the time to get this done well by placing the incisions more carefully.
Ok so after having everyone comment on how much hair i had lost for the next several months, I was at least hopeful everything would work out fine in the end, well it didnt! The front area, which is where I had repeatedly mentioned was my biggest concern to Dr Leonard in our one 12 minute meeting before the procedure, is still very thin and this is after ten months, also i do not see any more new hairs growing in there. So even though they will tell you you have to wait 12 – 15 months to get the full effect, its pretty clear at this stage that I am going to need another procedure to fix what could easily have been done in this operation.
Which brings me to another point, they never take the time to meet with you before your procedure on the day of your procedure, in fact they took a lot longer to make sure my credit card went through then they did making sure we were all on the same page for what I wanted out of this pretty expensive ($ 9K) and uncomfortable operation. Based on my results to date, I am sure that the number of grafts placed at LHTA were significantly less then the ones i have seen from other Dr. s for similar prices, which is also an interesting issue, LHTA never tells you the number of grafts you are going to get or how many you actually got, which is not the standard in the field. Imagine that type of approach in any other business dealing, or with any other elective operation for that matter.
One major reason I also don’t think that LHTA is worth going to at all is that at my one appt. with Dr Distefano two weeks ago to discuss the same unresolved issue (frontal balding), I learned a lot more about hair transplant, was reassured about not damaging the existing hairs, and was told the number and cost of each graft. And whats more the price was better and the more senior Dr Distefano was going to do the entire procedure. They also will meet with you the day of the procedure to make sure you have time to discuss your case with them right then and there.
So bottom line I would never go back and would never recommend LHTA to any one. I am sad to say but LHTA feels more much more like a money making factory with a big advertising budget than a caring medical practice dedicated to helping patients.
In all the expansion of his business it seems like Dr Leonard has in large part forgotten how to make patients feel like they are genuinely cared for and appreciated, that they are the most important thing and not meeting production goals. Therefore, I suggest that you please strongly consider Dr Distefano, or some other smaller but still well experienced practitioners, instead of LHTA. I wish in all the research i did that I had read a review like this, it would have saved me an additional procedure as well as many months of accentuated baldness.
Jan 8 2016
Oh yeah and Unilocaled flagged this review as unreliable! I am reposting it because this is from the heart! this place is not what it appears and is more interested in the their advertising than their patients.
I also ask those at Unilocal to not flag this review again, I wish I had read someones honest opinion like this and steered way clear of these folks!