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Cornwall chiropractor Paul Poirier is really happy with his hairpiece as he says it makes him look 10 years younger.

What he doesn’t like is that Hair Club’s Ottawa salon didn’t tell him upfront how much he could be spending afterward to keep his “new looks.”

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Poirier, who has undergone multiple surgeries for brain cancer and wanted to cover up the scars from the operations, found out this month that the $3,500 he dished out to Hair Club for a new hairpiece in September would only be a fraction of an enhanced maintenance program it recently suggested to its client.

He says his story should serve as a cautionary tale as hair-replacement clients need to know what they could be getting into involving long-term costs.

Initially, says Poirier, he was led to believe that six months after getting his new hair — which included maintenance and two new wigs in the third and fifth months to simulate growth — a new maintenance program would kick in that would include washing, coiffing and reapplication with an adhesive.