Hair Transplant Tourism in India: A Full Guide to Quality, Cost, and Culture

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Are hair transplant in India successful ?

How to get successful hair transplant in India ?

Kindly read the post until the end to choose a doctor in your country or city. This post has essential information hidden by 95 % of hair clinics worldwide.

Hair transplant is quite successful procedure in expert hands.

Does hair transplant result depend on country or city ?

Success rates are independent of country or location. But it does differ by doctor’s expertise, the role of a doctor in your surgery, clinic infrastructure, training and technique used for your hair transplant.

Every hair transplant technique is successful, provided experts perform it.

Are Hair clinics and Doctors hiding something to manipulate you ?

All over the world, whether it is India, USA, Turkey, Australia, UK, Singapore or any other place – hair clinics and doctors take advantage of the fact that patients do not know the exact role of a surgeon in the hair transplant procedure.

Hair transplant is advertised as teamwork, and doctors gradually reduce their role in your surgery to do more surgeries in a day. Reducing the part of doctors in hair surgery provides more revenue because more surgeries are possible under the doctor’s name. Because doctors reduce their role in surgery, so the cost can be decreased. Sometimes they charge high fees but can still reduce their role because patients do not bother to ask about their role in surgery. Patients think that the doctor, along with his team, will do the entire surgery.

Classify hair transplant clinics in India by role of doctor 

They get surprised on the day of surgery that the doctor has limited his role in surgery to 0 – 15 % of their hair transplant surgery. 

You can classify clinics based on the doctor’s role in your hair transplant surgery.

  1. Type 1 clinics – Doctor as an observer ( no active role of the doctor in hair transplant surgery ) – Some hair clinics get your hair transplant by a so-called assistant team to provide you economical hair transplant. These procedures are successful to a 70 – 80 % extent, but they rarely produce a natural result. The advantage of this protocol is that 5 – 10 patients can be operated on in the clinic at the same time on the same day by the same doctor. So even if they charge less, their revenue is high. Still, it is quite risky for your hair grafts.
  2. Type 2 clinics – Doctor makes slits ( channels or holes in the bald area – 15% work of your hair transplant surgery). Assistants do the rest of the work. Slit-making by a doctor ensures that hair will grow in the desired direction because the doctor creates slits or holes. The success percentage in these cases may be 70 – 80 %, but there will always be chances of failure or more donor area damage. The problem with this protocol is that a staff harvest your hair grafts instead of a doctor. Before-after result photos may be fine, but these procedures can utilize 1.5 – 2 times the donor area to produce the same result experts can have using less donor area. Suppose you need a hair transplant again after 5 – 10 years. Then that is challenging in these cases. If a hair transplant fails badly, you cannot regain your donor area. If you go to the expert doctor for a repair, he will again use the donor area. So you may use 2.5 times the donor area to produce the same result in hair transplant failure. The donor area is limited and does not grow back. So even if the first clinic returns your money, you are also at a severe loss in case of significant hair transplant failure. 
  3. Type 3 clinics – The doctor makes slits and harvests grafts from your donor area.
  4. Type 4 clinics – The doctor makes slits in the bald area, harvest grafts from the donor area, and insert grafts there.

Which type of protocols are internationally approved to do hair transplant ?

Only type 3 and type 4 protocols are approved internationally. Type 4 protocol is ideal but takes almost 1.5 – 2 times to perform your surgery, so expense increases significantly. Most clinics do not provide type 4 protocol.

How to choose a clinic for hair transplant in India or your own country

When you choose a clinic, ascertain these factors.

a. What is the role of a doctor in your surgery? Type 3 should be the minimum protocol (the doctor should do harvesting of the graft along with slitting in the bald area ). Refuse type 1 and type 2 protocols ( where the doctor is obeserver or makes only slits in the bald area) 

b. Who will do your surgery? Sometimes famous plastic surgeons or hair surgeon advertise their clinic and results. When you contact their clinic, they tell you that the surgery cost is very high. They offer you a lower cost if you do surgery by one of the doctors in their team. This surgeon is usually not an experienced dermatologist or Plastic surgeon. These surgeons are mostly MBBS doctors, Dentists with diplomas, and General surgeons. They can do your surgery, but they could be more experts.

c. Previous hair transplant results of doctor – kindly insist doctor or clinic- Show you their previous hair transplant surgery results or visit their website if you are hesitant to ask him directly.

Please choose a good clinic in your country or city using the above information.

There are other factors to selecting a hair clinic, like doctor qualification, doctor experience, and the technique used by the doctor. Still, if the above criteria do not match, they rarely help you get a good hair clinic or doctor for your hair transplant. 

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3000 grafts hair transplant cost in India and Turkey ( and Delhi )

3000 grafts hair transplant cost in India and Turkey

To know 3000 grafts hair transplant Cost in India , kindly read the information given in this article. In depends on factors like doctor qualification , previous hair transplant results , Clinic reputation, Role of doctor in your hair transplant etc. Many times patients wonder why hair transplant cost varies so much between clinics. So first we will describe the factors and then we will discuss cost

Factors influencing the cost of 3000 grafts in Delhi , India and Turkey are following

  1. Previous hair transplant results of clinic or doctor – This is most important factor determining cost . How much natural results are there if your transplant is performed by a particular doctor . Importance of results is most higher factor .
  2. Role of doctor in Your hair transplant – If there is minimal or no role of doctor in your surgery then cost becomes almost 1/3 to 1/2 . Normally doctor work in FUE is planning , hairline designing ,  graft extraction and Slit making . Assistant main work is insertion of graft in slits. If assistants are doing graft extraction also then cost becomes between Rs 10 – Rs 18 per graft in India. If doctor is not much qualified but doing graft extraction himself then cost varies from Rs 17 – Rs 25 per graft . If qualified doctor do extraction and slitting then cost varies from Rs 30 – Rs 90 per graft depending on doctor experience , previous results and reputation.
  3. Doctors qualification – If doctor is not Dermatologist or plastic surgeon then cost becomes 1/3
  4. Hair transplant technique used for hair transplant – FUT has lower cost . FUE has higher cost. Modification of FUE like DHI , DHT , MAGP etc have even higher costs .
  5. Clinic reputation , Doctor reputation and reviews – You can read google and other online reviews but mostly Reviews are more for clinics who actively ask their happy patients to leave a review . Clinic ask for reviews only from happy patients so gradually every clinic attains ranking between 4 and 5 . So in our opinion Reviews are of little use to compare doctors or clinics
  6. ISHRS , IAHRS , AHRS and hair society memberships – The doctors often claim that if they are member of these societies then they are superior to other hair transplant doctors. But beware of these fake claims. Beware of doctors who use short form of membership like MISHRS or FISHRS ( Member of ISHRS / Fellow of ISHRS ) like a degree. Degree are obtained after years of training . MBBS degree requires 5.5 years training. MD or MS degree requires 3 years further training after 5.5 years of MBBS. And M.Ch plastic surgery degree is 3 years training after a doctor has completed 8.5 years training already ( 5.5 years of MBBS and 3 years of MS ) . So to obtain a M.Ch. in plastic surgery a doctor needs minimum 11.5 years of training. Whereas a doctor with only MBBS degree can obtain a hair society membership even without 1 day of training. These are hair societies who provide membership based on interest of doctor . To attain these memberships, there are no training. Suppose a doctor is perform only 5 hair transplant in 1 year but he is interested in the field of hair transplant , so he can apply for membership of these societies after paying membership fees of society. These societies organizes conferences to share knowledge.  To become member of society is good thing But misguiding patient and presenting that as a degree are not ethical under Medical council Code of Ethics .

Cost of 3000 grafts in India and Turkey

Cost of 3000 grafts in India

Cost starts from Rs 30000 – 50000 in clinics where doctors have no role in your hair transplant surgery. If doctor is doing Slitting process then cost is 40000 – 70000 . If doctor is doing grafts extraction also then Cost will be Between Rs 70000 – 100000 . If doctor is more experienced then charges go up. If technique is superior and time taking then charges can reach upto 3 Lakh ruppees. Very few clinics may charges more than 3 Lakh for 3000 grafts . Some clinics use cricketers and celebrities to endorse their brand and charge you higher to make up the celebrity fees.

Cost of 3000 grafts in Delhi

Delhi is more expensive than other cities like ahmedabad , Jaipur etc because Rent , advertising , doctor salary and staff salary are more here so transplant becomes 50 – 60 % more expensive than small cities. But because delhi clinics have bulk so costing difference have come down now to 20 – 30 % . Good clinics charge between 90000 – 3 lakh in delhi depending on doctor and clinic

Cost of 3000 grafts in Turkey

It is between 1000 EURO to 2500 EURO to almost 95 % clinics. In turkey mostly it is technicians ( fancy name trichologist given to misguide patient ) who do the hair transplant . At 99 % turkey clinics Doctors don’t extract your grafts from donor area himself so damage is more to obtain same number of grafts . But you get cost advantage. Turkey clinics highlight technology more to lure patients because they know that role of doctor is almost 0 % in most of turkey clinics .So before choosing option of turkey always enquire about who will do graft extraction in your surgery.

FUE hair transplant in Delhi

FUE hair transplant in Delhi

Are you searching for FUE hair transplant in Delhi at Affordable cost with good results. Before considering FUE option , You must be aware that very good level of expertise is needed to produce good results by FUE technique. FUE technique has more risk of graft damage if done by Inexpert surgeons. We at AKESO offer you best FUE hair transplant in Delhi . Dr Akhilesh Jangid is world famous plastic Surgeon who performs FUE and its modifications in AKESO clinic Delhi and Gurgaon .

Natural Result of FUE in Delhi at AKESO clinic

Providing natural results can be a challenge in Hair transplant . You need expert surgeon to get the natural look because for that Density , direction of new hair is important.

FUE hair transplant

 

To see Best Hair transplant results in Delhi by FUE method and its modifications like DHI or DHT or MAGP , you need to visit our website gallery . You can visit AKESO hair transplant results by clicking here

Are you Searching Best doctors for FUE hair transplant in Delhi ?

You can consider Dr Akhilesh Jangid . You can compare Dr Akhilesh Jangid Hair transplant results with any other doctor in India and World. You will find yourself about quality of our hair transplant work .

Want to Contact Our Clinic for FUE Hair transplant in New Delhi

Kindly call or whatsapp us on +91 9643262655 or +91 9643262644 . You can mail at info@akesohairtransplant.com .

 

Best FUE hair transplant in Delhi

Best FUE hair transplant in Delhi

We know that every patient who searches for Best FUE hair transplant in delhi , is searching for quality hair transplant results which look completely natural. Kindly read this article to understand why we at AKESO provide you best FUE hair transplant in our Delhi and Gurgaon clinics .

What are parameters to define Best FUE hair transplant

  1. Least transection rate – Graft transection can be a significant problem in FUE technique. Expert surgeons have much lesser transection rate. Suppose a assistant or technician is extracting your grafts , and he is damaging 30 % grafts during graft extraction so if you require 3000 graft , he tries to extract 4200 grafts because his damage rate is 30 % . Final result in before and after pictures will not reveal this damage but when you need second hair transplant in future , this donor area damage becomes significant
  2. Slitting in right direction and good density – An expert surgeon provides you slit design to decide natural direction and density of your hairline. Results may not look natural if slitting process is not done by expert himself
  3. Adequate dose of anesthesia – It is important for painless experience. Expert surgeons block nerves to provide you pain free experience. In expert technicians have no knowledge regarding the courses of nerves so they can damage them causing more pain during and after hair transplant. Also anesthesia doses may exceed the permitted limits to endanger your life.
  4. Natural looking results – Best way to compare quality of FUE hair transplant in Delhi is to compare results of different clinics. Dr Akhilesh Jangid at AKESO clinic has produced awesome results by FUE technique and its modifications like DHI , DHT and MAGP . You can see AKESO hair transplant results here .

Want to enquire Cost of Best FUE hair transplant in Delhi at AKESO clinic

Kindly call or whatsapp us on +91 9643262655 or +91 9643262644 . You can email us on info@akesohairtransplant.com .

 

 

 

What is optimal density in Hair transplant

There are many patient who often call us and do inquiry that what is maximum density we can provide them. Or in other words what is maximum density which is successful

I will urge you to read following article on our website

IS HIGH DENSITY HAIR TRANSPLANT IN INDIA WITH DENSITY OF 60 – 80 OR 100 GRAFTS PER SQ CM IS POSSIBLE?

After you read this article it will become clear that what you can look at and why very high densities produce more damage to recipient area and may result in skin wound formation and more chances of graft failure.

So now you are aware of concept that we need around 50 % density of normal hair to look normal in long hair . If you want shorter hair styles you may need more density.

Hair density

Your normal density is around 80 – 120 grafts per sq. cm .  In hairline area you can go for density of 50  – 60 grafts per sq. cm but if area is more than 30 sq. cm then it better to go with density of 35 – 40 grafts per sq cm after creation of hairline . If there is restricted donor area availability even 25 – 30 grafts in this area may be enough if you are willing to increase hair length to create your hair style . The issues can be there if transplanted hair does not attain normal thickness so we may need to increase density but putting few more grafts after we get final result of hair transplant.

Now second question which patients ask

Q. If I am not happy later with my hair transplant density – can I improve the hair density in same area by hair transplant. Is there any risk to transplanted hair if we try to do hair transplant in same area again ?

A. When the healing and growth of transplant hair is complete then we can do another hair transplant by inserting hair in between the preciously transplanted hair to increase the hair density. There is risk of shock loss of previously transplanted hair but generally they recover within 5 – 6 months .

Hair transplant price in India

Hair transplant in India is quite tough decision to take as there are more than 2000 hair clinics in India. hair transplant prices are variable from Rs 10 – Rs 200 per graft. Based on these factors Hair transplant cost in India varies from clinic to clinic . More than 80 % clinics have cost less than Rs 30 per graft. More than 95 % clinics have cost less than Rs 60 per graft for FUE . More than 99 % clinics have cost Less than Rs 80 per graft in India. So many patients wonder why so much cost difference ? So we are highlighting here the factor which determine cost of hair transplant in India

  1. Qualification of doctor – Although Medical council of India recognizes hair transplant as domain of plastic surgeons but for FUE technique dermatologists are also authorized do hair transplant . Before you understand that you have to understand medical qualifications in Medical field in India. After high school (10 +2 ) the student who want to become doctor have to do MBBS ( 5.5 Years ) as undergraduate degree . After that there is post graduation ( MD or MS ) 3 years course which can be done in dermatology or eye or pediatrics or medicine  or surgery. Dermatologist doctor do MD in Dermatology. To become plastic Surgeon doctor has to do Post graduation in General Surgery  ( 3 years MS general Surgery) . After that Doctor has to do 3 years course more which is M.Ch. in Plastic Surgery to become plastic surgeon . Those who want to become dentist do BDS (5 years ) which is undergraduate degree. After that MDS is 3 year postgraduate degree in Dentistry. So doctor other than MD in Dermatology or M.Ch. in Plastic Surgery can do it . Those using fellowship in Cosmetic surgery or Aesthetic medicine ( FAM ) etc are 15 days courses and cannot be equated to M.Ch. in plastic surgery or MD in dermatology which are proper degrees. Some doctors are using FAM or MISHRS ( Short form for Member of International Society of Hair Restoration surgeons ) as degree ( There are writing Dr ______ , MBBS , MISHRS ) . Don’t confuse it with degree , its a membership of hair society not a degree obtained by Medical College) . So you can now understand by qualifications.
  2. Second Factor is Which hair transplant steps are performed by Surgeon – After you have checked the Factor No 1 you should check the steps done by surgeon. In ISHRS protocol all incision steps are duty of surgeon . So in hair transplant Anesthesia , Extraction of grafts and Slitting process are duty of doctor. Counting of grafts , insertion of graft into slits is duty of assistant. If your graft extraction is done by assistant then cost becomes half . If the slitting process is also done by assistant then cost becomes 25 % . The cost decrease is due to possibility of 5 -6 cases per day in these type of clinics.
  3. Third Factor is Previous results of Surgeon – They determine the cost but don’t get fooled by clinics when they show you results operated by some surgeon and when your turn comes then a unknown assistant or in experienced doctor operates you instead of that particular doctor.
  4. Fourth Factor is City – Metro cities have more rent expense , more salary expense so they are costly in comparsion of hair transplant in small cities. But at same time the doctors in small cities have very limited experience. And number of cases in metro cities are very high.
  5. Factor no 5  is Celebrity or cricketer Endorsement – Every celebrity charges clinic some fees to speak influential about clinic or to use his photographs or videos. So clinic increases his fees to recover this cost
  6. Franchise of Foreign clinic chains – There are certain business who have taken franchise of foreign hair clinics in India . These cost you higher even if their doctor is less qualified .
  7. Technique of Hair Transplant – Depending on technique the price like FUE is expensive than FUT . DHT,  MAGP etc are expensive than FUE  hair transplant.

 

 

Which one is better – FUE or FUT ?

There are many hair transplant doctors who promote FUT as better technique but slightly more painful in post op period. They try to justify that by posting video on YouTube showing you no scar after FUT in their technique.

Most of dermatologists are not well versed with surgical methods , they only learn FUE because cutting , stitching is not part of their training . So most of them are biased with FUE as they don’t know FUT at all . They never tell that they are not able to do FUT , instead they promote FUE as latest Method with less pain in post op period. Some plastic surgeons are biased with FUT Technique and they promote it extensively as better method than FUE.

Before answering the most frequently asked question Let me summarize both techniques and then take questions one by one

Click here to know more about FUE.

FUT Technique

In FUT technique a strip is taken from the donor area

FUT and FUE

 

Above picture tries to explain FUT Process in which we first harvest a skin strip from donor area. It creates a wound in donor area . Which we covers by pulling the upper and lower edges of wound and apply stitches.

It very complex topic to understand for normal patients but i will try to answer most queries about it

Is Graft damage rate in FUE more than FUT ?

Yes Damage rate in FUE is more than FUT. In inexpert hands damage in FUE can reach 30 – 50 % also. But in expert hands it varies from 2 – 5 % . The in experienced surgeons damage 30 – 50 % extra donor area to harvest same number of grafts. SO FUE requires really a expertise and You should do FUE only with selected highly trained doctors.

Never go to a clinic where graft extraction is done by assistant or technician.  But in really expert hands the volume of hair is much more in same number of FUE grafts even if you get 2 – 3 % damage. Reason is thicker grafts in FUE as we can select graft before harvesting it . In FUT we cannot select graft so their average thickness is less than FUE grafts.

Is FUE is not from safe donor area ?

Safe donor area is defined a around 7 cm height area where hair are relatively stable until your old age. FUT utilizes just 1.5 cm height. FUE utilizes 5 – 7 cm height. So a Standard FUE procedure of 3000 grafts is also from safe donor area. Request your surgeon to remain confined to safe donor zone.

Is FUT result better than FUE ?

Suppose we are doing 3000 grafts by FUE and 3000 grafts by FUT . Then FUE result will be having better thickness and better volume than FUT. The reason is that when we do FUE we tend to choose better grafts in term of hair thickness and number of hair per graft. In FUT we cannot control the thickness of graft and average number of hair per graft.

In Microscopic hair transplant ( MAGP ) the specificity of FUE is further enhanced due to Microscope use. And graft will have more thickness and more average number of hair per graft. Because of these reason FUE or MAGP will yield better result in same number of grafts . If we want to obtain same result with FUT , we will have to do 20 % more grafts than FUE to gain same volume.

Can trichophytic closure prevent scar formation in FUT technique ?

Answer is No. Trichophytic closure is done so that one or two row of hair grow inside the FUT scar So that it can be hidden if it is not broad. If the FUT scar is broad then trichophytic closure will also not help much.

Is it possible to do FUT without scar ?

You cannot prevent scar formation in FUT but its width will be minimum if strip is taken after assessment of donor area skin laxity and width of strip is less than 1.5 cm . If you have been shown a FUT donor area after 6 -7 months of Hair transplant without scar , then insist to see that patient photo after 2 – 3 years .

Does the life of FUT graft is more than FUE graft ?

No . FUE grafts taken from safe donor area will have same life. If FUE graft is taken from unsafe donor area then its life will be lesser than FUT graft.

 

 

 

 

 

5000 grafts hair transplant cost in india

5000 grafts hair transplant cost in India

Will depend on method which is used to perform 5000 grafts . 5000 grafts are not possible by FUE from scalp in one session in 95 % persons so clinics claiming to do 5000 grafts in single sitting are actually doing 3500 – 4000 grafts in most of patients . Following are ways to do 5000 grafts

  1. 5000 grafts by FUT + FUE combination technique – In this method around 3000 grafts are done by FUT then 2000 grafts are done by FUE to make 5000 grafts available from your scalp . Average 5000 grafts cost in India varies from Rs 125000 – Rs 250000 ( US dollar – 1800 – 3500 )  . 5 % clinics may charge you more than that .
  2. 5000 grafts by combination of scalp grafts and beard grafts – In this method 3000 – 4000 grafts are done by FUE from scalp . Rest grafts are done by Beard as donor area. The result will not be as good as FUT + FUE combination. Because FUE grafts from beard are single so 1000 grafts from beard provide you volume equivalent to around 600 grafts from scalp. Average 5000 grafts cost in India by this method varies from 1.5 lakh – 3 lakh ( US Dollar – 2100 – 4200 )