- Which country is cheapest for a hair transplant?
- Of the six markets checked in July 2026, India is cheapest at roughly $1,230–2,155 for 2,500 grafts (₹40–70 per graft plus 18% GST), followed by Turkey at about $2,720 for a median entry package including hotel and transfers, China at about $2,853 as an audited average spend per patient, Thailand from about $3,040, Korea at $4,865–11,780 for surgery only, and Japan at about $16,470. Korea is fifth of six. Every figure and its source is on /pricing/.
- Why is Korea more expensive than Turkey?
- Chiefly because delegation is prohibited rather than licensed. Turkey’s 2023 hair-transplant regulation reserves only the channel-opening stage to a certified physician and permits one physician to oversee up to five application rooms at once, while Korea’s Medical Service Act §27 bars non-licensed persons from medical practice, so a Korean case occupies a surgeon for the whole session. Volume, labour cost and bundled package pricing account for the rest. See /guides/why-turkey-is-cheap/.
- How many hairs are in a hair transplant graft?
- A graft is one follicular unit and carries one to four hairs, averaging about two. This matters when comparing quotes across borders: Korean clinics quote per hair while Turkish, Japanese, Thai and Indian clinics quote per graft, so the same headline number means roughly twice as much work in Seoul. See /guides/graft-vs-hair/.
- Who is legally allowed to perform a hair transplant?
- It depends on the country, and we only state it for the two whose primary legislation we have read. In Turkey, article 9(3) of the 2023 hair-transplant regulation reserves only the channel-opening incisions to a certified physician; extraction and implantation may be done by certificated non-physician health personnel under supervision. In Korea, Medical Service Act §27 prohibits unlicensed medical practice outright, and hair transplant surgery by a nursing assistant is treated as unlicensed practice even with a physician supervising. See /guides/who-holds-the-punch/.
- Does Asian hair actually need a different technique?
- The morphological differences are measured and documented: Asian scalp hair averages a shaft cross-section about 25% larger than Caucasian hair (4,804 against 3,857 µm²) at about 23% lower density (175 against 226 hairs/cm²), with donor follicular-unit density of 61–63 against 65–85 FU/cm². Those change punch sizing and donor budgeting. Whether they change your outcome is a separate claim we have not verified and do not make. See /asian-hair/.
- What graft survival rate should I expect?
- This site publishes no graft survival or success percentage for any technique or any market, and a build-time check prevents one appearing. We could not source such a figure to a primary reference, so we do not quote one, and that is worth knowing about anyone who quotes you a precise number without saying how it was measured. See /guides/what-results-are-realistic/.
- How many grafts do I need?
- It is the recipient area you want covered multiplied by your target density, then capped by what the donor area can safely give: published limits are roughly 10–15 follicular units per cm² in a single pass, leaving 40–50 FU/cm² behind. A published worked example puts a 189 cm² safe donor area at 1,890–2,835 grafts. Any per-Norwood-stage graft table you see quoted is, as far as we could establish, unsourced. See /guides/how-many-grafts/.
- Can I avoid shaving my head?
- Yes, but it costs more and caps the session. Published Turkish rates put unshaven work at $3,000–5,500 for 1,000–2,000 grafts against entry packages near $2,720 covering up to 4,000 grafts, and a Bangkok clinic publishes non-shaven at THB 100 per graft. Roughly double the price for roughly half the grafts. See /procedures/unshaven/.
- What happens if my transplant does not take?
- With us, a defined proportion of grafts failing to take triggers an included revision session agreed in writing before you travel. Worth noting for comparison: none of the six markets’ published price pages we checked stated any revision term at all. See /revision/.
- How is the price actually calculated?
- Our own price is set primarily by graft count and technique, but our tier figures are not yet fixed against signed partner-clinic contracts: the market figures on /pricing/ are sourced, our own are not. PLACEHOLDER: not yet checked against a named clinical source or measurement date.
- Who do I pay, and when?
- Payment timing and terms are confirmed in your written plan before you travel. PLACEHOLDER: not yet checked against a named clinical source or measurement date.
