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.