How Do Hair Restoration Clinics Calculate the Cost of Hair Transplant Surgery?

This question, asked by a member of our hair loss social community and discussion forums, was answered by “sl” – a clinic representative for Coalition hair transplant surgeon Dr. Christian Bisanga.

How is number of grafts calculated? For the pricing, almost all hair transplant surgeons base this on the number of grafts. How does the number of grafts correspond to the number of extractions made in the donor area? For example, if they extract 2000 grafts and transplant 3000 (assuming some are singles and doubles as well) do they charge for the 2000 grafts or 3000 grafts?

Good question. If a hair restoration clinic extracts 2000 grafts and places 3000 then, as you say, they have split the grafts down into lower groupings.

Usually a clinic performing follicular unit extraction (FUE) will get enough singles for a hairline if this is the area being addressed; as they can cherry pick singles and then doubles and so on. So, on a virgin scalp, I personally would not see this happening. You would get the grafts in their original state for the most part. For repair work this may not be the case.

There may be slightly more extractions than grafts placed, depending on the skill of the surgeon punching the grafts and ability to get them without transection. The clinic will usually charge for grafts placed and some will give a breakdown of this also with relevant make up of hairs per graft.

“sl” – Representative for Dr. Christian Bisanga

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David (TakingThePlunge)
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