Surgeons

How surgeons are verified
before they are named.

The standard is that the surgeon named in your plan performs your extraction and implantation personally, with their licence and specialty board verified before they are named, and that no figure we cannot audit is presented as though we had. That is the direct answer to who holds the punch. Below is exactly what gets checked, what gets labelled as merely declared, and (the part most sites leave out) how many surgeons have been admitted under this standard so far, which today is none.

What we check

Four checks, completed before naming.

Licence

Verified against the national register before the surgeon is named, with the number recorded in your plan, so the person who signs the plan is the person the state licensed.

Specialty board

Which board they hold, and for how long they have performed hair transplants specifically rather than cosmetic surgery generally. The second question is the one that separates a hair surgeon from a surgeon who also does hair.

Personally performs extraction

Named in writing as the person performing your extraction and implantation, not supervising a team doing it. In Korea that is not a premium option (Medical Service Act §27 makes delegation to non-licensed staff unlawful), which is why this row costs us the price comparison and we publish it anyway.

Case volume, labelled as declared

Self-reported by the clinic, and marked as self-reported. We have no way to audit a case count, so it is presented as a declaration rather than as a check, the distinction most sites erase.

The honest limit

What verification covers, and what it cannot.

Two limits, and the second one is the one that matters today. We cannot watch every extraction. What we can do is name the surgeon in writing, verify licence and board before you travel, and settle what happens if grafts fail before you pay (see the revision terms).

The larger limit: no surgeon has been admitted under this standard yet. There is no signed clinic contract behind this site, which is the same reason the tiers on the pricing page are still labelled placeholders while the market figures beside them are sourced. Everything above describes the standard a surgeon will have to clear, not a roster we are concealing. A page like this one is normally written to imply a network; we would rather it read as a specification you can hold us to later. The field this standard will be applied to is public: see the registered clinics, government-verified and none of them a partner yet.

Worth knowing what this standard is measured against. In Turkey the equivalent question has a published legal answer, and it is not the same one: only the channel-opening stage is reserved to a certified physician, and one physician may be responsible for up to five simultaneous rooms. That is lawful there and it is most of the price gap. See who holds the punch, where both instruments are quoted.