Who a Transplant Suits
Hair restoration has no gatekeeping worth the name. There are no letters, no assessments, no waiting lists and no referral. You can book a transplant next week with a credit card, anywhere in the world, at almost any age.
That is not freedom so much as an absence of protection. In other kinds of surgery, someone between you and the operating table has an interest in whether it is a good idea. Here, the only person applying criteria is usually the person selling you the operation.
So the criteria have to be yours. The pages below set out what a careful surgeon would want to establish before agreeing to operate: how much donor hair you actually have, how far your pattern has to run, whether your age makes the plan a guess, what the real cost is over a lifetime, and what going abroad does and does not change.
If you read one, read the donor supply page. Everything else in hair restoration is downstream of that number.
Guides
Suitability
Donor Supply
The number that governs everything. Roughly 6,000 to 8,000 grafts in a lifetime, non-renewable, and spent in whatever order you choose.
Norwood Stage
The scale surgeons use to describe male pattern loss, what each stage means for a transplant, and why your final stage matters more than your current one.
Age and Timing
Why surgeons hesitate over patients in their twenties, what waiting buys you, and the cases where operating early is genuinely reasonable.
Practical
Going Abroad
Why the price gap is real, what actually differs between markets, and the questions that matter more than the country on the invoice.
Cost and Funding
What a transplant really costs once you add the drugs, the second session and the thirty years afterwards. Nothing here is funded anywhere.
Thinking about a transplant?
The Start Here guide explains why medical treatment comes first, how much donor hair you actually have, and what a transplant can and cannot move.
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