Guides

Nine guides,
sourced and dated.

Everything a comparison shopper needs to read before trusting any quote, ours included: units, graft counts, donor limits, recovery, and who actually performs the surgery in each country. Every figure carries its source and measurement date, and the two claims we could not source are labelled as absent rather than papered over.

Choose a guide

Nine questions, answered with sources.

Graft, follicle or hair

The three units behind a quote, and the factor-of-two conversion between them.

How many grafts do I need

Estimated from recipient area and donor supply, with the arithmetic shown.

Donor area capacity

The published extraction limits, and the Asian donor baseline they start from.

The Norwood scale

The seven stages of pattern loss, drawn and cited to the 1975 original.

Who holds the punch

Who may legally perform the surgery, quoted from each country’s own rules.

Why Turkey is cheaper

Five structural reasons, stated fairly, with the prices beside them.

Recovery timeline

From crusts to maturation, in eight intervals from one peer-reviewed source.

Shock loss

The shedding phase after surgery: onset, regrowth, and who it affects most.

What results are realistic

Eight citable figures, and why no success percentage appears on this site.