Free Diagnostic Tool · Hair Restoration Practices Only

Your ads are probably
breaking the law right now. Here's how to find out in 5 minutes.

The ISHRS published a Consumer Alert. The FTC published Health Products Compliance Guidance. Google built automated classifiers to enforce both. None of them sent your practice a warning.

This tool scans your website against 238 flagged phrases across five compliance categories and sends you a full report — no login, no waiting on a human, no sales call required to get it.

238 phrases checked ISHRS Consumer Alert benchmarked FTC Health Products guidance aligned Report in under 5 minutes

Scroll down to see what we check — and what it costs when we don't.

Free compliance audit

Is your hair restoration website compliant with ISHRS and FTC guidelines?

Run a free automated audit of your website against the ISHRS Consumer Alert on False Advertising and FTC Health Products Compliance Guidance. You'll get a hosted report in your inbox within minutes.

Takes about 60 seconds. We’ll email your report to the address above, then send a few quick notes about your findings. Unsubscribe anytime.

ISHRS benchmarked FTC aligned 238 phrases checked
100% Free. No Login.

Enter your practice details and we'll scan your site.

Hair restoration practices only. This is a diagnostic tool, not legal advice. See our privacy policy.

What's actually happening in this vertical

Most practices learn about compliance
the expensive way.

These aren't edge cases. They're patterns we see across hair restoration advertising specifically — Google Ads accounts, Meta campaigns, and FTC exposure happening to practices running language they've had for years.

$0

Revenue from a suspended Google Ads account

One disapproved ad in a healthcare category can trigger an account-level review. A suspension kills every campaign instantly — including your top performers — until the appeal resolves. That can take weeks.

All of it

What's at risk when Meta flags your ad account

Meta's automated systems flag body-related targeting language and before/after framing. Repeated disapprovals drop your account quality score — which limits delivery on every future ad, not just the one they flagged.

Years

FTC consent decree length for health advertising violations

FTC enforcement for unsubstantiated health claims doesn't end with a fine. Consent decrees require ongoing monitoring and pre-approval for advertising changes — sometimes for 20 years. The ISHRS Alert gives regulators the standard to cite.

The free audit — what you're actually getting

A $2,000 compliance review.
Free. In 5 minutes.

A healthcare advertising attorney charges $300–$500/hr for a compliance review that takes 4–6 hours. This tool does the first-pass scan in under 5 minutes.

Here's what you get when you run the audit:

Everything delivered to your inbox. Zero cost. No strings.

Full homepage & internal page crawl

Every treatment page, procedure description, and gallery page scanned

$400

238-phrase compliance check against ISHRS Consumer Alert

Outcome guarantees, technique claims, testimonial framing, FDA language

$600

Google Ads policy risk scan

Language that violates Healthcare & Medicines and Personalized Advertising policies

$400

Hosted compliance report with risk-level categorization

High / Medium / Informational, with governing standard cited for each finding

$600

Total value

Delivered in under 5 minutes

Free.

That's $2,000 worth of compliance review. Free.

See exactly what's on your site — before Google or the FTC does it for you.

The audit, step by step

Six steps. Under 5 minutes. No one to talk to.

You submit your URL. The tool does the work. Your report arrives in your inbox. No sales process between here and your findings.

Verify you're a hair restoration practice

The audit confirms your domain before running checks calibrated for ISHRS and AHRS-I standards. This isn't a generic compliance tool — it's built for your vertical.

Crawl your homepage

Full scan captures headlines, hero copy, CTA language, before/after framing, and testimonial structure — the highest-risk zones for compliance violations.

Discover internal pages

The audit follows internal links to treatment pages and procedure descriptions. That's where most violations actually live — not the homepage.

Match 238 phrases across 5 categories

Outcome guarantees, technique claims, testimonial framing, FDA language misuse, and Google policy violations. Each finding is categorized by risk level.

Generate your hosted report

Flagged items are listed with their risk level (High / Medium / Informational) and the specific ISHRS or FTC provision that applies. You'll know exactly what to fix and why.

Send it to your inbox

Your report link arrives within minutes. Share it with your marketing team, your attorney, or use it to book a consult with ours.

Five compliance categories

What 238 phrases actually looks like
broken down.

Every flagged phrase maps to its specific ISHRS provision or FTC guidance section. You'll know which standard you're violating — not just that something is flagged.

CAT 01

Outcome guarantees & result claims

"Guaranteed results." "Permanent solution." "100% success rate." The FTC requires substantiation for every outcome claim. These phrases have none.

CAT 02

Technique & device misrepresentation

Exaggerated claims around robotic precision, AI-guided surgery, and device-specific outcomes that the ISHRS Consumer Alert names directly.

CAT 03

Before/after & testimonial framing

Missing atypical-results disclosures, unverifiable before/after claims, and testimonials that imply typical outcomes when they're not.

CAT 04

FDA & regulatory language misuse

"FDA-approved" applied to surgical techniques. Devices are approved. Techniques aren't. This is one of the most common violations we find.

CAT 05

Google Ads policy language

Body-shame framing, implied personal health conditions ("your hair loss," "your thinning"), and negative self-perception copy banned under Google's Personalized Advertising policy.

What non-compliance costs

The real price of ignoring this.

Not hypothetical. These are documented outcomes in the hair restoration and medical advertising vertical.

Event Estimated cost What triggers it
Google Ads account suspension $0 in revenue until resolved Healthcare policy violation in ad copy or landing page. Can take 2–6 weeks to reinstate. Full account, not just one campaign.
Meta ad account quality reduction Permanent delivery reduction Repeated disapprovals from body-related or health-condition targeting language. Account quality scores don't fully recover.
FTC investigation (health claims) $50K–$500K+ in legal fees Unsubstantiated outcome claims or misleading testimonials. Consent decrees can require pre-approval of all future advertising for 20 years.
Emergency website rewrite under legal pressure $15,000–$40,000 When a regulator or platform flags your site and requires documented changes on a timeline, you don't get to shop for the best price.
Referral reputation damage with ISHRS members Unquantifiable The Consumer Alert exists because surgeons are watching. A practice flagged by colleagues for misleading claims loses referral trust — the kind that doesn't come back.

All estimates based on publicly available FTC enforcement data and healthcare advertising legal benchmarks.

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From a practice that went through it

He spent a weekend doing this manually.
Then he called us.

"When I was going through the ISHRS full membership review process, I realized I had no real idea what was on my own site from a compliance standpoint. I printed out every page — the procedure descriptions, the results gallery, the FAQs — and spent two days with a highlighter going through it line by line against the Consumer Alert. I found a lot. Phrases I'd had on the site for years that I never thought twice about. Vitality came in, went through every finding, rewrote what needed to be rewritten, and documented why each change was made. When I submitted for membership, I wasn't guessing. Precision holds itself to the highest standard in the field — the marketing should reflect that. Now it does."
Dr. Raffi Barsoumian
Founder & Surgeon, Precision Hair Restoration
ISHRS Full Member

Start where Raffi started.

Run the free audit. Know exactly what needs to change. Then decide what to do about it.

Before you run it

Questions we hear every time.

Straight answers. No filler.

The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery issued a public Consumer Alert warning patients about misleading advertising in the hair restoration industry — exaggerated graft counts, unproven techniques, fabricated before/after photos, and non-surgical "cure" claims. It matters because it gave Google, Meta, the FTC, and state regulators a published, citable standard for what counts as deceptive advertising in this vertical. They use it.
Yes. Google's Healthcare and Medicines policy applies to the landing page your ad sends traffic to — not just the ad copy itself. Body-shaming language, implied personal health conditions ("your hair loss," "your thinning"), and unsubstantiated outcome claims on your website are reviewable. An account-level suspension from a healthcare policy violation takes down every campaign simultaneously, not just the one flagged.
The FTC Health Products Compliance Guidance requires that all advertising claims be truthful, not misleading, and substantiated by competent scientific evidence. For hair restoration specifically: no unqualified success guarantees, no "permanent cure" language, disclosure when results are atypical, and identification of any material connections in endorsements and testimonials. "We've helped hundreds of patients grow their confidence back" without proper substantiation is a claim under this guidance.
The phrase database was built from five sources: the ISHRS Consumer Alert on False Advertising, FTC Health Products Compliance Guidance, Google Healthcare and Medicines policy, Google Personalized Advertising policy, and pattern analysis of ad disapprovals we've seen in the hair restoration vertical. Each phrase is mapped to the specific standard it violates — so when your report flags something, it cites the rule, not just the word.
Under 5 minutes, start to inbox. The tool verifies your domain, crawls your homepage and internal pages, matches content against the 238-phrase database, and sends a hosted report to your email. No waiting on a human.
No. This is a first-pass diagnostic against known phrase patterns — not a comprehensive legal review. A clean report means your website doesn't contain the 238 flagged phrases from our database. It doesn't mean your advertising is fully compliant with all applicable standards. Practices with findings should review results with a healthcare advertising attorney. Practices with clean reports should do the same, at least once.

You have two options. Run the audit now
— or find out the hard way.

The audit is free. It takes 5 minutes. The report tells you exactly what to fix. If you want our team to fix it with you — book a consult. We'll review your report and tell you what to prioritize.

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