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kaiser permanente. and risky market of medical tourism for many of the men who wish they still had a full head of hair, the bargain price of a turkish hair replacement procedure is almost as attractive as they hope their after image will be. here's abc's austin singh. parker brian carter is enjoying life playing with his dog and working as a cfo at a nonprofit. >> come here, come here. but he's been keeping a secret

hidden under his hat. look at her hair coming out. >> it did concern me, though. the one time where i did see a lot of it, i'm like, oh my god, i'm like, okay, i'm starting to lose my hair. >> the 33 year old, first noticing his changing hairline in his early 20s. >> at the time, i was like, oh, maybe it's just normal. maybe like a shedding. >> like the thought of his hair loss still painful. >> i just want to, like, have my hair back, have my self-confidence back and just not care as much as i do now. this is like, hard to talk about. >> yeah. >> travel out of the country determined to change his fate. brian scrolling on social media. >> that was really good. >> found his answer. i was swiping through the one day and i saw this guy getting a hair transplant. >> i was like, oh my god, i want to do that. and he went to turkey. i was like, oh, so i'm like, let me do research on the clinics over in turkey. >> he's part of a booming medical movement. men traveling overseas for hair transplants for the first time, dudes getting cosmetic surgery feels kind of normal. joining the ranks of women who've crossed the border for cosmetic treatments like bbls and breast

enhancements. the draw? feeling better looking younger, more desirable for a lot less money. but some experts caution this so-called medical tourism can come with risks. >> there. promising you the moon no risk. you know, minimal downtime. these are things where you have to kind of scratch your head and say, hmm, is it too good to be true for brian that risk was worth taking passport. >> joining the nearly 1.4 million health visitors traveling to turkey last year, there are so many bandaged up heads seen on flights leaving istanbul daily. it's even inspired the social media hashtag turkish hair lines in pennsylvania, as brian packs for his own flight. he's optimistic one step closer to a fuller head of hair. how do you think. i

feel the so-called hair transplant capital of the world >> oh my god. hello brian. >> where he's welcomed by a translator from smile clinic and into a bus where he's off to his five star hotel. it's all a part of a surgical package deal costing him about $3,000. that it's a significant savings with the average cost of the same surgery in the united states ranging from $10,000 to $30,000. brian's whirlwind three day trip here includes all his hair related medical visits at the clinic. >> hello, everybody. hi nice to meet you. i'm brian, then an anxious moment. >> brian finally removing his hat. >> take off the hat. yeah. >> perfect. >> thank you. hello brian. hey.

good. how are you? hi. nice to meet you, too. how do you feel today? >> ah, i'm a little anxious. a little nervous. um, but it's like. it's good. it's not, like, bad. >> i will cover everything. and don't worry, i will take good care of you. >> his doctor says he's performed over 4000 hair transplant procedures. >> the most important thing for me is, in your case, your donor zone. hairs, thickness is okay. okay, so they seem pretty nice in the crown. i will mimic the direction of your existing hair. >> doctor. belgian outlines brian's new hairline guiding where he'll place the grafted hair. the surgery tedious process that can take up to 12 hours as each hair graft is carefully removed from a donor area in the back of brian's head, there, then surgically placed at the top of his scalp. >> i'm pretty sure that brian will have a good result if i do

my job good. if my team does their job good, and if brian follows our guidance through the process, he'll have a very good result. definitely. brian is taking his first steps towards recovery, hoping his new hair grafts will take hold and grow. >> surgical hair transplants are just one of the many treatment options and the never ending quest to cure baldness. 30 to 50% of men will experience some hair loss by age 50, according to the national institutes of health, and a quick scroll through social media finds companies ready to sell you various treatment options as getting help for hair loss used to be hard. >> hims makes it simple cover it up. >> that's what i did when i started losing my hair. i do think that the men who are going

overseas to get something that feels as routine as as a hair replacement surgery, there probably is some shame attached to it, and there shouldn't be because it feels like this is so much more of a common occurrence than than it wasn't. >> but while luscious locks are celebrated and even envied, some men are leaning into their baldness with confidence. here's the thing not everybody can pull off a shaved head. but if you can pull off a shaved head, that's a commodity like that is set xxi. and the people who have done that and have done that well have been guys like dwayne the rock johnson, samuel l jackson, even it works for them and it's a part of their brand. >> for those not eager to embrace their genetic fate, hair transplants have become a big business overseas. but buyer beware, there's a lot of red flags on the internet when you start seeing advertising agents that are promising unlimited graphs. >> scarless surgery, pain free,

um, you know, guaranteed results . >> doctor ricardo mejia is vice president of the nonprofit international society of hair restoration surgery. he says when it comes to hair transplants in turkey, there's no guarantee facilities are held to u.s. standards. the cdc even warning medical tourism comes with risks in many cases. >> a lot of these clinics presents false credential as false photographs. when i've reviewed some of these, i'm like, wow, this is very impressive. this is great. but, you know, five star hotels, five star treatments. but the reality is that doesn't matter because, you know, the hotel and the service, they're not doing your procedure. >> many of doctor mejia's colleagues repairing botched hair transplants. it's by black market operators from aggressive overharvesting of donor areas to bad scarring and poor growth. and the dangers aren't limited to untrained providers. >> and like any surgery, there are risks with infections, damage to nerve blood vessels, damage to arteries, damage to

the recipient site by creating too many holes in the area where the grafts are going to go. we've seen cases of necrosis or poor wound healing and infections to avoid those outcomes, doctor mejia says. >> to check for credentials from reputable sites and ask questions, go to the american board of hair restoration surgery, which also has an international version, and they certify also doctors internationally. >> so the most important thing is can you meet the surgeon or talk to them before your procedure and are they going to do the procedure? are they physically going to do it or is it going to be delegated to a non-physician? >> brian did his research on smile clinic and doctor bojan, who's associated with the issues , even following up with former now, 11 months later, brian has finally ditched his hat. >> the best part is i don't have to coordinate a hat with an

outfit now. when i go out, i get to like, be free. i get to be me. i get to style my hair, i get haircuts. um, it's just the craziest feeling ever. it was 100% worth it. i have no regrets. i wake up and i feel like i'm dreaming. sometimes it's so insane to. especially when i take a picture, i'm like, oh my god, i have hair for doctor belgian. >> another satisfied patient. >> i have many patients that regularly texting me, uh, for example, they get a get out of the shower and they're in front of the mirror. they take a selfie. hey, man, you see what you did to me? thank you very much. you changed my life. >> this whole experience has been very life changing for me. not that there's anything wrong with being bald, but for me, i just felt so self-conscious because i lost my hair so young and i never really got to experience what it's like to have hair. and this is kind of like a second chance. >> it may seem silly to some at the end of the day, it is just hair, but the growth of brian's confidence, like the hair on his head, is invaluable. >> do what makes you happy. don't. don't worry about what

everybody else says, you know? um, do what makes you feel good. and, um, you live once on this earth. you get one time. and if you want to make a little adjustments, why not? it's your body. >> our thanks to austin. when we return my nightline co-anchor, juju chang goes one on one with kelly rowland on her new psychology thriller, mea culpa. close your eyes >> hcm is a serious heart condition affecting as many as 1 in 200 people. like me and me. >> it can impact how you feel and what you can do. >> i still felt tired on my beta blocker, so i talked to my cardiologist about treatment advances in hcm that gave me new options. >> it was a breakthrough for me. >> that conversation was big for me. talk to your cardiologist today and visit hcm. real talk. com for more information.

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destiny's child. >> but that is just one child. that is just one of the many talented hats she wears. she's also a producer and the lead actress in tyler perry's new steamy thriller "mea culpa." kelly rowland is here. welcome to "nightline." >> thank you so much for having me. >> juju: you're adding the glam factor in this fabulous outfit today. >> thank you, thank you, a little red. >> juju: you celebrated a birthday? >> 43rd birthday. i chilled with family. i love to eat and that's all i wanted to do. >> juju: we're celebrating this fabulous now film, as you call it, an erotic psychological thriller. >> you added the psychological. you've seen it, you've seen the way it's definitely manipulative. >> juju: it gets you hot under the collar. it's directed by tyler perry. youly a criminal defense attorney who takes on the case of a seductive artist. >> yes. >> juju: accused of murdering his girlfriend. things take a little bit of a twist and turn. let's take a quick look at the

clip. >> that's all you do. take a look at what the prosecution has, i'll get back to you. >> today? >> i'll let you know when i can. >> unlock your phone. put my number in. can leave it with my secretary on your way out. >> sure you can. yeah, exactly. . >> juju: you tell him, kelly. i love it. it's so funny, because you can tell there's so much chemistry buzzing. but at the same time you're trying to keep your head on straight. and then there's this lusty part of it, too. i think everyone can relate to that. >> it's so interesting. i figured, it's so not me. when tyler first introduced this character to me, i was nervous about it. and i remember saying yes, and i just really started to walk in her footsteps, and i understood her. i understood her story and understood her struggle with her family and marriage and everything and the dynamic of

meeting zaire and what that was and her having to take on this case. >> juju: and the mother-in-law from a dark place. >> oh my gosh. just the family from -- you know. >> juju: i do know where, exactly. tyler perry, as you know, the iconic filmmaker, he said he has never worked with a producer who's brought so many ideas to the table. what was that like? >> it was so interesting. of course he presented the script to me, and i had all these extra ideas. and i'm thinking, am i crazy? but it was, like, the more i brought ideas, the more he was just so nimble. he was like, "oh, yeah, i like that, we should try that. i like this, maybe we should do this." i learned so much from him. and i was also intimidated at first, to be honest. >> juju: yet we mentioned you're also a producer on this film. does it change the way you act that you are in your head as a producer as well? or does it sort of streamline? >> so i had to get out of my head. because, you know, like when

you're looking at, like, shots or edits and things back, which on some of it, "i don't want to see these, i don't want to see this part." because i don't want to be self-critical. i think by accident, some people are like, oh my god, i don't like listening to my voice, when they're listening to voicemail messages back. i didn't want to do that. it was important to be in the scene. and tyler knew how much that meant to me. when it was time to produce or look at lighting or look at something on set, i was definitely focused on that. it was actually knowing where my focus needed to be in that time. >> juju: how was it doing the steamy scenes? >> how was it doing the steamy scenes? definitely technical. not as -- >> juju: interesting. >> yes. i mean technical in a way where we met with an intimacy coach. javonte was very respectful. >> juju: where are the boundaries, yeah, yeah. >> after that it was said, it happened, "all right, stop. now face this way." it was more technical. >> juju: choreography.

>> exactly, the choreography needed to be right, the cameras needed to be right, the lighting needed to be right. am i giving too much away? making sure it was tasteful forth audience. >> juju: we know you can act. we also know you can sing. you have one of the most recognizable voices out there. it's been 11 years since your last full-length album. >> yes. >> juju: "talk a good game." what can we expect? >> i'm finally ready to tell stories with a body of work. i think that for a while i was like, do i want to try this? no. i don't want to try this, i don't want to be trendy, i don't want to do what the young people are doing. i want to say something from my perspective. i think there was a little bit of that. i've been in the game 20-something years. >> juju: no, you st started as child? it doesn't feel like that. >> no, but for me i'm always -- i was in my head a bit. now i know exactly what i want to say. i'm 43, i have so much to express. i think somebody else will feel

the same way i do, have the same thoughts i do. >> juju: what are the things you're exploring in the music? >> i can't tell you, i've got to come back. >> juju: spoiler alert. >> i can tell you i'm writing everything down. i feel like i'm so blessed to be in a creative space to where it feels like things of coming as they come. i'm telling somebody on my team. i'm telling somebody, let's get in the studio, let's bring this down, set up a meeting with this person. i'm grateful for the stream of creativity. >> juju: your creative power is all over the screen. thank you so much for stopping by. >> thank you so much for having me, it's a pleasure. >> juju: thanks, kelly. watch "mea culpa" this friday streaming on netflix. >> byron: our thanks to juju. when we come back, nikki haley says she's not going anywhere. i told myself i was ok with my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms. with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms. but just ok isn't ok.

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