Afro Hair Transplant
An Afro hair transplant moves tightly curled follicles, which curve beneath the skin as well as above it.
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HairHair restoration moves your own follicles from the permanent zone at the back and sides of the scalp to thinning areas, the beard or the eyebrows. FUE and DHI are the standard techniques, performed under local anaesthesia in a single day, which makes hair transplants the most common reason people travel for treatment. Grafts shed within weeks, regrow from month three and mature at twelve months; results depend on donor supply, graft handling and the surgeon leading the session.
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An Afro hair transplant moves tightly curled follicles, which curve beneath the skin as well as above it.
A beard transplant moves follicles from the back of the scalp to the cheeks, jaw and chin, filling patchy growth or building a beard where little grows.
A crown hair transplant fills the circular thinning area at the back of the top of the head.
A DHI hair transplant places grafts with a pen-like implanter that makes the incision and inserts the follicle in one movement, instead of placing grafts into sites made…
An eyebrow transplant moves fine scalp follicles to the brow, rebuilding brows thinned by over-plucking, ageing, scarring or medical conditions.
An eyelash transplant places single scalp follicles into the lash line.
A female hair transplant moves follicles to thinning areas, most often a widening part, a receding temple or a high forehead.
An FUE hair transplant removes follicular units one at a time from the back and sides of the scalp using a small circular punch, leaving dot scars rather than a line.
A FUT hair transplant removes a strip of scalp from the back of the head, closes the donor as a line, and dissects the strip into individual grafts under magnification.
Hairline lowering moves the entire hairline forward surgically, removing a strip of forehead skin and advancing the scalp to meet the new position.
A hairline transplant rebuilds or lowers the front edge of the hair, using single-hair grafts along the leading edge and denser grafts behind.
A hair transplant moves follicles from the back and sides of the scalp, where hair is genetically resistant to balding, to areas that have thinned.
Hair transplant revision corrects previous work that looks unnatural, grew poorly or was planned badly: pluggy grafts, a hairline placed too low, wrong angles, or a depl…
Long-hair FUE extracts and transplants grafts with the hair shafts left at full length rather than trimmed, so the result can be seen immediately rather than after month…
A mustache transplant moves scalp follicles to the upper lip, filling patchy growth, a gap under the nose or asymmetry.
PRP hair treatment injects platelet-rich plasma prepared from your own blood into the scalp to stimulate thinning hair follicles, either as a course of sessions for earl…
A sapphire FUE hair transplant uses blades tipped with synthetic sapphire to make the recipient incisions, instead of steel.
A scar hair transplant grafts follicles into scar tissue to camouflage it, on the scalp, in the beard, or along a previous surgical scar such as a facelift or FUT donor…
A sideburn transplant rebuilds or creates the strip of hair in front of the ear, joining the scalp hairline to the beard.
An unshaven hair transplant leaves the recipient area, and sometimes the donor, without shaving, so the procedure is far less visible in the first weeks.
Anaesthesia, operating time, hospital stay, downtime and the earliest safe day to fly home, side by side.
| 20 procedures | Anaesthesia | Operation time | Hospital stay | Time off work | Before flying home | Results visible |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afro Hair Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 300–540 min | 0 nights | 10 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| Beard Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 240–420 min | 0 nights | 7 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| Crown Hair Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 240–480 min | 0 nights | 10 days | 3 days | 8 months |
| DHI Hair Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 300–480 min | 0 nights | 10 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| Eyebrow Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 120–240 min | 0 nights | 5 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| Eyelash Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 120–180 min | 0 nights | 5 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| Female Hair Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 240–480 min | 0 nights | 10 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| FUE Hair Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 240–480 min | 0 nights | 10 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| FUT Hair Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 240–480 min | 0 nights | 14 days | 5 days | 6 months |
| Hairline Lowering | General / Local with sedation | 90–180 min | 0 nights | 10 days | 7 days | 6 weeks |
| Hairline Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 180–420 min | 0 nights | 10 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| Hair Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 240–480 min | 0 nights | 10 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| Hair Transplant Revision | Local / Local with sedation | 240–480 min | 0 nights | 10 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| Long-Hair FUE | Local / Local with sedation | 300–540 min | 0 nights | 7 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| Mustache Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 120–240 min | 0 nights | 7 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| PRP hair treatment | Local | 30–60 min | 0 nights | 0 days | 0 days | 3 months |
| Sapphire FUE Hair Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 240–480 min | 0 nights | 10 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| Scar Hair Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 120–360 min | 0 nights | 7 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| Sideburn Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 120–240 min | 0 nights | 7 days | 3 days | 6 months |
| Unshaven Hair Transplant | Local / Local with sedation | 300–540 min | 0 nights | 7 days | 3 days | 6 months |
Hair restoration moves your own follicles from the back and sides of the scalp to thinning areas, or to the beard and eyebrows. FUE and DHI are the standard techniques, performed under local anaesthesia in a single day, which is why hair transplants are the most common reason people travel for treatment.
A transplant is a redistribution, not a cure. The donor zone holds a finite number of grafts, typically four to eight thousand usable over a lifetime, and hair loss continues in the areas around the grafts unless it is treated medically. Good planning therefore starts with a realistic hairline for your age, a graft count that leaves reserves for later, and a decision about finasteride or minoxidil.
Results take a year to mature and depend on graft survival, donor supply and the surgeon actually leading the session. Each page explains the techniques, what a realistic graft count looks like, the risks of over-harvesting, and the short two-to-three-day trip most patients plan.
Start from what bothers you, not from a procedure name. A consultation confirms the choice.
A receding hairline, thinning temples or a bald crown with a healthy donor area
The transplant restores density; medication or PRP slows loss in the surrounding hair.
A patchy, thin or scarred beard
Grafts come from the scalp, so the same donor budget applies.
Sparse, over-plucked or scarred eyebrows
Single-hair grafts placed at a flat angle; transplanted hairs need trimming.
A naturally high forehead with a stable hairline
Surgical lowering moves the hairline in one step; transplants fill the gap over a year.
Early diffuse thinning without bald patches
PRP and medication may thicken existing hair; a transplant needs enough loss to have a target.
Combining operations saves a second anaesthetic and a second trip but lengthens surgery and recovery. Surgeons set limits on total operating time.
PRP is often injected during and after the session. Evidence for better graft survival is modest; its main role is supporting the native hair.
Possible when the donor area is strong, but the combined graft count must stay within safe daily limits, typically under four thousand.
Surgery lowers the hairline by up to about two centimetres; grafts soften the scar and round the corners later.
Hair transplantation is safe compared with surgery under general anaesthesia, but it is not risk-free and the risks are largely about planning and execution. Over-harvesting thins the donor area visibly and permanently, poor angles and unnatural hairlines are hard to reverse, and low graft survival from rough handling or long time outside the body wastes a limited resource. Infection, folliculitis and prolonged numbness of the scalp occur in a minority; shock loss of native hair around the grafts is usually temporary.
The single most important question is who will hold the punch and place the grafts. In many clinics abroad the doctor designs the hairline and technicians do the rest; that can be acceptable when the team is experienced and supervised, but you should know before you book. Ask for the doctor’s name and registration, how many sessions they do per day, the maximum graft count they will perform, and for photographs of patients at twelve months with donor areas shown.
A hair transplant trip is short: arrive the day before, the session takes six to nine hours, and a wash and check follow the next morning, so two to three nights is usual. Sleep with the head raised and avoid touching the grafts for the first days; the clinic will show you how to wash from day two or three.
Grafts are secure after about ten days. Expect scabs for a week, redness for two to three weeks and shedding of the transplanted hairs at two to six weeks, which is normal. Avoid sun, sweat and helmets for a month, and plan the follow-up photographs at three, six and twelve months.
Two to three nights. The session takes one day, the first wash and check are the next morning, and you can fly home immediately after; there are no stitches with FUE.
It depends on the area and the density you want: a hairline and temples often need 1,500-2,500 grafts, a crown 1,500-2,000, and extensive loss 3,500 or more, sometimes over two sessions. A clinic that quotes the same large number to everyone is selling grafts, not planning.
Both extract follicles one by one. DHI implants them with a pen device without pre-made channels, which some surgeons prefer for the hairline; FUE with channels allows larger sessions. Published survival rates are similar, and the operator matters more than the method.
The transplanted hairs shed in the first weeks and regrow from about month three. Once grown, they come from follicles resistant to the hormone that causes male pattern loss, so they are usually permanent. The native hair around them can keep thinning.
About half the density is visible at six months and the mature result at twelve to eighteen months, as the hair thickens and lengthens.
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