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Our most recent in-depth guides on hair transplants, costs and recovery.
How Many Grafts Do I Need? How Surgeons Work Out the Number
How surgeons estimate how many grafts you need, why a graft is not a hair, how your donor supply limits the total and how to check the number in a clinic quote.
Explore our categories
Find guides by topic, from choosing a technique to recovering at home.
Techniques & Procedures
FUE, FUT, DHI and robotic extraction, and what happens on the day of surgery.
Browse guidesCosts & Financing
Prices by country, what packages include, guarantees, insurance and paying for treatment.
Browse guidesClinics & Countries
How to compare clinics and destinations, and the checks to make before you book.
Browse guidesCandidacy & Planning
Whether a transplant suits you, the right age, hairline design and long-term planning.
Browse guidesRecovery & Aftercare
Healing week by week, aftercare, travelling home and the warning signs to know.
Browse guidesSpecialty Transplants
Beard, eyebrow, body hair and afro-textured hair transplants.
Browse guidesFree tools
Plan your hair transplant with confidence
Work out the full cost, including travel, time off and medication, and take a printable checklist of the questions to ask at your consultation.
Latest articles
New and recently published guides.
Hair Transplant After 50: What Changes With Age, and What Doesn’t
There’s no strict age limit, but donor supply, general health and medications matter more after 50. How goals and recovery differ for…
Am I a Good Candidate for a Hair Transplant? What Surgeons Check
Donor hair, stable hair loss, the right diagnosis and realistic goals: the four things a surgeon assesses before agreeing to operate.
Hair Transplant for Afro-Textured Hair: What’s Different and What to Ask
Curved follicles, keloid risk and conditions like traction alopecia make afro-textured hair a different technical challenge. What changes and what to ask…
Alcohol, Smoking, and Exercise After a Hair Transplant: What to Avoid and For How Long
Why alcohol, nicotine and exercise affect healing grafts, and the typical waiting times clinics recommend before you go back to each one.
Hair Transplant Repair Surgery: Fixing a Bad Result
What counts as a bad result, the most common repair cases, why corrective surgery is harder than a first procedure, and how…
Microneedling and Hair Transplants: Does Combining Them Help?
What the evidence on microneedling supports, which claims to be skeptical of, the risks, and how to time it around a transplant.
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