One person in five
is told no.
Most of these criteria are the reason somebody keeps hair they would otherwise have spent. We publish it because a clinic that has never told you no has never told you the truth about your donor area, or about the lesion it was about to laser without testing.
We will not operate on these cases
Advanced loss with a depleted or miniaturising donor area cannot be covered honestly. Spreading grafts thin across a large surface produces a see-through result and permanently spends donor hair that could have given real density to a smaller area later.
What we do instead: physical donor density count, body hair assessment, scalp micropigmentation referral, or a staged plan that covers the front properly and leaves the crown alone.
The pattern has not declared itself. A hairline placed at 20 frequently ends up as an isolated band with native loss behind it by 30, and the donor supply needed for that repair has already been spent.
What we do instead: medical management, six-monthly standardised photography, and a surgical review once the pattern is documented as stable for at least eighteen months.
Patients frequently request the hairline they had at sixteen. Placing it there consumes an enormous number of grafts, looks incongruous on a mature face, and leaves nothing for the loss that continues behind it.
What we do instead: an age-appropriate design that will still look correct at sixty, marked on your scalp and photographed before you consent.
Autoimmune hair loss is not a surgical problem. Transplanted follicles are attacked by the same process. Surgery during an active phase wastes grafts and can trigger further loss.
What we do instead: dermatological treatment first, and surgery considered only after a documented period of stability.
Advertised counts of 6,000 to 8,000 grafts in a single day are usually achieved by over-harvesting the donor, splitting grafts, or counting hairs rather than follicular units. Graft survival falls as time out of body rises.
What we do instead: a stated per-session ceiling, staged surgery where the demand exceeds it, and a follicular unit count you may audit on the day.
This is elective surgery. It waits until you are medically fit. We require baseline investigations and, where relevant, clearance from your treating physician.
What we do instead: pre-operative workup, referral to your physician, and a re-booking once parameters are controlled.
Some patients are seeking a change that no surgical result will deliver. Operating on them creates an unhappy patient regardless of technical outcome. This is a clinical judgement, made without insult, and it is final.
What we do instead: an honest conversation, and where appropriate a referral for psychological assessment before any surgical discussion continues.
A price that is only good today is designed to stop you comparing clinics. Nothing about your scalp changes overnight, so nothing about a sound plan needs to be decided overnight either. We enforce a minimum cooling period between consultation and surgery.
What we do instead: a written plan, a fixed quote valid for ninety days, and an explicit instruction to go and get a second opinion.
Things we will not do in our marketing
The pressure to exaggerate is commercial, not clinical. These are the rules we work to, written down here so you can hold us to them.
- ✕No AI-rendered image of your own face with hair added
- ✕No results photographed before month ten
- ✕No wet-hair or forward-styled after photos
- ✕No lighting change between before and after
- ✕No time-limited pressure to force a same-day decision
- ✕No graft survival percentage promised, because no one can defend that figure in a consultation
- ✕No paid or incentivised patient reviews
- ✕No comparison advertising naming another clinic or surgeon
If you have been told yes somewhere and something felt rushed, bring the plan here. We will read it, tell you whether it is sound, and say so if it is. We will not ask you to switch clinics.
What we will not
do to your skin.
Hair grows back into a plan that was wrong. Skin does not. That is why the list of things we will not do to your skin is longer, and why it matters more.
- 01Lasering a pigmented lesion that has not been assessed
It destroys the only tissue a pathologist could have examined. We assess first, always.
- 02Excision without histopathology to save time or cost
Every specimen goes for histopathology. There is no version of this where it is optional.
- 03Surgery on active or spreading vitiligo
Stability must be documented over twelve months. Operating earlier produces new patches at the donor site.
- 04Single-session promises on mixed acne scarring
Ice pick, boxcar and rolling scars need different instruments. Anyone promising one sitting has not typed your scars.
- 05Keloid excision without an adjuvant programme
Cutting out a keloid and doing nothing else has a high recurrence rate. If you cannot attend the follow-up programme, we will not start.
- 06Same-day procedure at the first consultation
Unless it is clinically urgent, you go away with a written plan and a cooling period.
Roughly one person in five who approaches this clinic is advised not to have surgery. The published criteria include advanced loss with a depleted donor area, active alopecia areata, hairline requests that would consume the donor supply, patients under twenty-two with an unstable pattern, and megasessions advertised at six to eight thousand grafts in a single day.
Questions people actually ask
Can everyone have a hair transplant?
No. Roughly one person in five who asks this clinic is told not to have surgery. Advanced loss with a depleted donor area, active alopecia areata, unrealistic hairline requests, and patients under twenty-two with an unstable pattern are all declined, and the full criteria are published on the website.
Read before you decide
Am I too young for a hair transplant?
Age matters less than whether your pattern has stabilised. But under twenty-two, the answer here is usually no.
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