HAIR RESTORATION INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA has over 40 combined years of experience providing hair restoration procedures. Our consultants, technicians, and clinic coordinators are experienced, caring and ethical individuals. We conveniently provide the following discreet, confidential locations.

The founder and President of Hair Restoration Institute of Minnesota is Vernon Cole. He has been a licensed cosmetologist since 1978 and is a graduate of Horst Education Center , currently called The Aveda Institute located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has been an owner of a national chain of salons, platform artist and national speaker of a multibillion dollar franchise. He is also a member of the American Hair loss Council.

In his later teens, Vernon noticed his hair was thinning; the first signs 1of Male Pattern Baldness were setting in. He entered the hair restoration business back in 1982 primarily, as you can see, because he had a need for it himself. He understands both the psychological and physiological aspect of one going through the process of thinning and balding hair. What sets him apart from his competitors is that in addition to being the master technician at Hair Restoration Institute of Minnesota, he is literally “a product of the product”. He is well acquainted with all aspects of hair loss. He discovered, in his own personal research in attempting to find solutions to the hair loss problem that he was experiencing, that most of the hair replacement clinics that he visited were more interested in selling him something that they offered, whether it was what he needed or not.

As you can see by his Before photo, Vernon was not and is not a candidate for surgical hair transplants (SHT). However, he found several doctors in the transplant business who said he was a candidate and would have gladly taken $8,000 - $10,000 of his money to perform the surgery. Vernon and Hair Restoration Institute of Minnesota (HRIMN) are not against SHT if it’s done on the right candidate. However, Vernon would have been another transplant “victim”, just like a huge percentage of HRIMN’s non-surgical clients are today. Many of HRIMN’s clients have had to resort to wearing some type of hair system primarily due to the fact that they were not a candidate for SHT. They are not happy with the unnaturalness of the SHT, lack of density, or in several cases, out-right botch jobs.

On the other hand, Vernon, as well as the individuals who didn’t have access to Laser Hair Therapy now available, or who were either victims of unethical practices, or who simply wanted to do something about their hair loss and were actually not good candidates for SHT, are extremely grateful for the Virtual Reality process that HRIMN offers.

Thus HRIMN is not a “one product or service shop.” We have and will always continue to do what’s right for the client and his/her particular scenario. We will not recommend doing a procedure on an individual that doesn’t fit his or her need simply because it would mean more money in our pockets.

HRIMN is truly grateful and excited about all the different methods of restoring hair and the positive impact it has to literally improve the very quality of one’s life, i.e. self-worth, confidence in career and social situations, looking one’s age or younger, . . . the list goes on and on.

Thank you for taking the time to get acquainted with us and our products and services. We sincerely hope that whatever decision you come to, whether you do something about the hair loss problem or simply want fuller, thicker and healthier hair, that you ultimately feel you gained good knowledge to help you bring your issue to closure. Your satisfaction is our true desire.

We hope to hear from you in the very near future.

Sincerely,

The Hair Restoration Institute of Minnesota clinic team