How to choose a hair transplant clinic: ten questions
Ask these at every clinic you shortlist, including this one. The answers separate them faster than any before-and-after gallery.
Written and clinically reviewed by Dr. G. Revanth, MBBS DDVL DNB · August 2026 · 3 min read
The most useful questions are about delegation, volume and refusal: who makes the recipient sites, how many surgeries run in parallel that day, and when the clinic last told someone no. A gallery of results tells you what a clinic can do at its best. These questions tell you what it does on an average Tuesday.
The ten
1. Who makes the recipient sites?
Site creation determines angle, direction and density. It is the design of your hairline. If the answer is anyone other than the surgeon, the surgeon sketched your hairline; they did not build it.
2. How many surgeries run in parallel today?
A surgeon moving between four theatres is supervising none of them properly. Ask to see the day's operating list.
3. Can I see the theatre before I pay?
A clinic that will not show you the room it intends to operate on you in is telling you something useful.
4. What is my donor density, in units per square centimetre?
A number, counted under magnification. Not "good" or "adequate". If nobody counted, nobody knows whether the plan is possible.
5. Is the price per follicular unit or per hair?
A graft holding three hairs, counted as three grafts, triples the number on the quote without adding anything to your head.
6. How long does the quote hold?
A price valid only today exists to stop you comparing. Nothing about your scalp changes overnight.
7. When did you last decline someone, and why?
A clinic that has never said no has never told anyone the truth about their donor area. Ask for the criteria in writing.
8. What happens at month three?
If the answer does not include the words "it will look worse", you are being sold to rather than informed.
9. What does the follow-up schedule look like, and is it booked now?
Dates in the file before the surgery mean something. A promise of "we are always here" does not.
10. Can I have the aftercare protocol before I decide?
A clinic that can hand you the full recovery protocol in advance has one. A clinic that photocopies a sheet on the day is improvising.
One thing that is not on the list
Before-and-after galleries. Every clinic has good results — the question is what its median case looks like, and no gallery answers that. Ask instead for a result photographed at month twelve in the same light as the baseline, and ask what happens when a case does not go to plan.
Our answers to all ten are published: the delegation table and theatre log, the decline criteria, and the full aftercare protocols. Hold us to them, and hold everyone else to them too.