Hair Transplant Athens

No, hair transplantation does not hurt at all, as it is performed with local anaesthesia and there is no discomfort of any kind, neither during the surgery, nor after, nor the next day. It is also characteristic that it takes place in the specific, fully equiped operating rooms of our Clinics and does not require admission to a Hospital.

It depends on what one compares the cost to. How much is it worth to you to get thick hair again, with a completely natural result?
In our clinics, the cost of hair transplantation is adapted to Greek data, so that it is more accessible to the public, compared to hair transplantation prices prevailing in foreign countries. A hair transplant with the FUE method in a similarly reliable clinic in Europe or America, which has many good results to show, is charged 3 to 6 times higher.

Even in Turkey, where many go looking for cheaper options, the cost in the good Clinics is the same as that of the Greek good Clinics, plus the costs of air travel and accommodation and plus the fact that the post-operative follow-up in this case will be difficult if something happens. The cost of hair transplantation should be calculated per follicle and not per hair! In the event that someone talks to you about a fee per hair, avoid them because they are trying to deceive you.

The answer is that there is no right age for this procedure. There is no maximum age and no minimum age. The right time is when the person decides that he needs to do something definitive and permanent for his hair. Of course, it would be preferable not to do a hair transplantation at a very young age when someone has many years ahead and hereditary factors will certainly further affect the thinning and loss of his hair. In these cases, we can postpone the procedure for a few years, by doing other hair treatments that help and tone the hair. We would say that most patients seek the help offered by hair transplantation from the age of 35 and above.

We definitely do not recommend cutting your hair or shaving before the operation. Instead, the longer your hair, the better you will be able to cover the areas of the donor area, from which hair follicles will be taken.

The FUT (Follicular Unit Transplantation) method is an older and more invasive method of hair transplantation, as in order to obtain the hair follicles, an entire strip of skin is cut and removed from the back of the scalp (this is why the method is also known as Strip). The strip is then cut into smaller pieces and processed under the microscope to separate multiple grafts. Although many hair follicles can be removed, the strip of skin, which is about 1.5 cm wide, leaves behind a visible scar. On the contrary, the FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction) method does not leave any scars or marks, as the technique has evolved so much that the result is excellent. The grafts are collected one by one from the donor area, with special tiny tools and implanted one by one in the recipient area, also with tiny, microsurgical tools.

In Derm & Plastic Surgery Clinics, Hair Transplantation is treated as it should be treated and that means, as a serious medical procedure . That’s why it is only performed by Dermatologists and Plastic Surgeons, with many years of expertise and experience in this field.

When you hear that Beauty Salons offer hair transplantations with 600 and 800 euros, you should run away, as the only certain thing is that nurses, beauticians and non medical staff will do your procedure. At the end of course, when things go wrong, you will pay double and triple to qualified Doctors to correct their mistakes on your scalp. And the good scenario is that you will still have a healthy donor area and the mistakes will be fixed. Each person's hair follicles are precious and irreplaceable and if they are initially damaged, they can never be replaced by anything. This is the reason why at every step of this process (from planning, to extraction, to separation and implantation of hair follicles) delicate manipulations are required, as possible mistakes can destroy the hair follicles that will be transplanted.

It ranges from 95% to 100%. Survival rate has to do with how the hair grafts are maintained during extraction (constant temperature 4-8°C) the graft maintenance fluid, which is not an ordinary saline, but an isotonic product, which is universally regarded as the most ideal of all, and the handling of the hair grafts by the nursing team. All of the above, due to the many years of experience of the Derm & Plastic Surgery Clinics' human resources, have been standardized with protocols that ensure the excellent growth of your hair follicles.

Yes it is! Hair Transplantation is one of the few operations that has a permanent effect, due to the fact that the hair follicles simply change their area of ​​growth and not their DNA. Therefore, effects from the hypersecretion of DHT hormone will not be allowed in the new growth area, in the front part of the head.

About 6 months. Much shorter than in the past when the waiting time reached 9-12 months. This is because the grafts in the FUE method are minimally processed, not modified, or cut under the microscope, as in the FUT method.

It takes 10 days for the donor and recipient areas to clear and heal so that nothing is visible. However, covering up with a hat is possible from day one, so you can go out without being noticed. Usually after the first day the redness recedes to a great extent and the first washing is done after 3 days at our place, by our nurses, while the head gradually clears after 7 days of washing. Our hair grows 2.5 points a month and quickly in the first 15 days everything is covered and nothing is visible.

About 8 hours with a break for food and we always try to keep it going with pleasant music, conversation, relaxation or even sleep for some and we would describe it as quite a pleasant experience overall.

Any season of the year is suitable for hair transplantation, as there is no season or temperature that affects the result of this procedure. Of course, in Greece, many people avoid the summer months, in order not to miss their summer vacations and to avoid direct exposure to the sun in the first weeks, after hair transplantation. Of course, there are others who choose to wear a hat for a while, as the protection of the hat is sufficient for that purpose, during summer time.

Hair Transplantation is not a “treatment” for hair loss. Where the hair loss is due to androgenetic alopecia, which is genetic, this hair loss will continue to proceed after the transplantation. Hair transplantation is a method of transferring healthy hair follicles to a new area (recipient area) and these new hair follicles will never fall out! However, the existing surrounding hair that existed there before the hair transplantation, are genetically programmed to fall out and therefore will continue to fall out after the transplantation.

Of course! The new hair is just like the rest of your hair. You can wash them, comb them, cut them, dye them and give them any styling you want! It's your hair and you can take care of them, just like you do with the rest of your scalp.

No, absolutely nothing will be visible after the procedure and this is where the skills of the Surgeons are of great importance. The target is to perform this procedure, without leaving any scars.

Yes it is possible, provided there is still an adequate density in the donor area, with healthy hair follicles.

On average 3 to 4 times during his life, someone can do a hair transplant. Therefore, depending on the initial density, the size of the donor, the method of extraction (unfatigued or cut) and the grafts extracted each time, a donor with normal density can give life time in total from 4,000 to 6,000 grafts. That is, approximately 50% of the total number of transplants that a donor has.

In the restoration of thinning eyebrows, in men and women. Especially many women, due to wrong hair removal methods in the eyebrow area, end up with a permanent reduction of their eyebrows. The transfer of individual hair follicles is the most ideal and natural method to enhance the density of eyebrows. The results on the eyebrows are excellent and completely natural, without having to seek for an eyebrow tattoo with questionable or even bad results. In the restoration of sparse beard hair, due to trauma (e.g scars from accidents or due to skin diseases (e.g alopecia), as many wish to thicken their beard or fill possible gaps. 

In the the restoration and correction of scars on the head, from previous FUT-Strip procedures. A large number of those who have undergone implantation with the Strip technique, proceed to a second hair transplantation, this time with the FUE method in order to correct the scars left by the FUT-Strip method on the head.