Hair Transplant Cost at AKESO – 100 % Ethical costing

Reading this PAGE before moving to cost details may completely change your hair transplant clinic research. You can choose a better clinic or doctor by using the information below.

You should spend 5 – 10 mins understanding the facts regarding hair transplant surgery.

When a patient starts to research hair transplant clinics or costs, he assumes that hair transplant surgery is like any other surgery, like heart or gall bladder surgery, etc. He thinks that the doctor he is consulting will perform the entire surgery. But unfortunately, it is not true. In the majority of hair clinics, 90 % steps of hair transplant surgery are done by nursing staff ( nurses, compounders, assistants, technicians, or trichologists) or non-qualified doctors.

Hair transplant surgery started in the 1990s as a doctor’s job. Doctors were performing all the steps of a hair transplant.
Then came FUE in the late 1990s, where Hair transplant was possible without any cuts or stitches. But initially, surgeons were doing all the steps.
Since Surgeons were doing all steps of the entire hair transplant procedure, the number of grafts possible could not be higher in the FUE process. Doctors performed 700 – 1500 grafts daily and called patients on multiple days for surgery.
In the early 2000s, Surgeons started training their assistants to insert grafts in holes they created in bald areas. As holes ( tunnels or slits) in bald spots were done by surgeons in particular directions and densities so patients started getting final transplanted hair direction and density according to the desire and plan of the doctor, even if assistants were inserting hair grafts in the bald area
Now, 2 – 3 assistants were inserting grafts simultaneously so that doctors could perform 3000 – 3500 grafts in one day.
Different types of implanter pen devices increased the speed of the hair transplant procedure.
Gradually, hair surgeons became greedy and trained their assistants to extract grafts in FUE. The hypothesis was that if a patient needed 3,500 grafts for his baldness. Even if the assistant damages an additional 1,500 – 2000 grafts from the donor area, but can remove 3,500 grafts, then the result of the hair transplant in the bald area will not decrease. The bald spot is still getting 3500 grafts, so that the result will be the same. An assistant doing graft extraction enabled surgeons to do 3 – 4 surgeries daily. It increased their revenue.
This additional damage to the donor area is not visible in your first hair transplant. Still, it decreases the capability of your donor area to donate more grafts in the future. Generally, the back of your head donor area can donate 5500 – 7000 grafts in your entire life. All hair grafts removed from the donor area are removed permanently with their roots. So, if you donate 3500 grafts, then these 3500 grafts will not grow back in the donor area. If the total capability of your donor area is 6500 grafts, then you can donate around 3000 grafts more in the future for any future baldness. But if assistants extract grafts and damage an additional 2000 grafts of your donor area, then you lose 5500 grafts ( 3500 grafts extracted + 2000 grafts damaged) from the donor area. Now, in the future, you can donate only 1000 – 1500 grafts. So it is crucial to ensure that qualified hair surgeons extract your hair grafts rather than assistants ( nursing staff, trichologists, technicians, hair assistants, etc).
There is an increasing trend in hair clinics nowadays to project nursing staff as doctors, so always be careful when choosing a hair clinic. The qualifications and reputation of a surgeon do not matter if he is getting your grafts extracted from staff or a non-qualified doctor ( dentists, ayurved doctor, etc ).
Gradually these assistants became more confident and made holes or slits in the bald area. Now, the surgeon has no role left in surgery except observation. Results were not completely natural, but hair transplant per-graft costs dipped over the years.
Hair transplant is expensive when a clinic has strong social media or celebrity endorsement, even with less qualified doctors (dentists, ayurvedic, homeopathic doctors ) or assistants performing surgery.
Enquiring about graft cost from a clinic without knowing the doctor’s exact role and qualifications will land your head in an assistant’s or a non-qualified doctor’s hands. Today, the facts are that 95 % of Indian and Turkish clinics and around 50 % of US clinics provide packages in the name of the famous doctor, but that doctor does not perform graft extraction from the donor area. They charge you for 1 hour of doctor role for 6 – 8 hours of surgery. If the doctor extracts grafts, the doctor’s role becomes 3 – 5 hours ( depending on the number of grafts ). It is true for the most famous clinics with celebrities and cricketers endorsing them because doctors operate on celebrities to increase brand name value, but get you operated by less qualified doctors or their assistants. Before comparing AKESO with any other hair clinic – Indian clinic, Turkey clinic, USA Clinic, or UK clinic – Kindly enquire about the qualification of the doctor and the role of a doctor in your surgery.
Posting before and after videos and good hair transplant results in before and after photographs does not have value because they cannot prevent additional donor area damage if extraction is done by Assistants in these surgeries.

What does international protocol say about the role of the doctor and assistants in hair transplant surgery?

Read the following to get clear about the roles of the surgeon and the assistant in hair transplant surgery.

The following aspects of hair restoration surgery should only be performed by a Hair transplant Surgeon.

Preoperative diagnostic evaluation and consultation
Surgery planning
In Hair transplant Surgery Doctors role should be including:
- Donor hair harvesting – Graft in FUE , Strip harvest in FUT
- Hairline design
- Recipient site creation – Slit making ( channel making , incision in recipient site , channel opening, slit pattern ) to decide direction and density of transplant hair along with natural hairline
Management of other patient medical issues and possible adverse reactions
Post-operative care

Role of assistant in hair transplant surgery

Pulling grafts from the donor area after the hair surgeon has scored the graft for graft extraction with the hair transplant punch
Calculation of grafts and separation of grafts or any other graft processing steps ( in FUT – cutting grafts out from the strip )
Insertion of grafts into slits – It can be done by trained assistants.

How are we different from other hair clinic options?

In 90 – 95 % of clinics worldwide, graft extraction from the donor area is done by assistants, hair technicians, or non-qualified doctors. Less than 15 % of hair clinics offer Hair graft extraction for the donor area by a qualified doctor. In the rest of the clinics, this is done by hair transplant surgery assistants/technicians. At AKESO, in all cases, you get the slitting process and hair graft extraction by a qualified doctor.
Even highly expensive, famous hair clinics are not exceptions to this rule. They also manipulate the role of the surgeon to do more cases. Sometimes, sedative tablets or injections hide the surgeon’s role in the surgery.
At AKESO, graft extraction ( Punching or scoring of your hair grafts to extract them from the donor area ) is performed by a qualified plastic surgeon, dermatologist, or internationally trained senior plastic surgeon, Dr Akhilesh Jangid, in Elite Packages and by qualified doctors in Premium packages. This step is never given to hair technicians or nursing assistants. This fact makes us different from 90 % of hair clinics present around you.
Please ensure that this fact from your clinic is that a qualified surgeon does all graft extractions because your donor area does not grow back. When Hair Technicians / Less skilled extract your grafts, they damage additional grafts to remove the required number.
Many famous hair transplant surgeons / Clinics operate multiple hair transplants daily or run numerous branches of their clinics by publishing hair transplant results on the clinic website and social media. When you contact them, the main doctor is very expensive. They try to offer hair transplant services by other doctors or hair transplant technicians to lower the cost of hair transplants. At AKESO, all services are provided by Dr Akhilesh Jangid or a qualified Doctor.
Every hair transplant at AKESO has the active role of Dr Akhilesh Jangid.

Technique Refinements at AKESO

Around 90 % of clinics do not provide proper direction and density of newly transplanted hair to create a natural look.
Around 85 % of clinics do not offer the True DHT option (Graft transfer from the donor area to the bald spot within 10 – 60 minutes). They claim that they will place grafts as soon as possible. But they cannot commit to you that the graft out-of-body time will be 10 to 60 minutes for your grafts. AKESO offers an accurate DHT process for you.
Around 95% of Hair clinics do not use a Hair implanter pen for graft insertions.
Less than 5 % of hair clinics use Hair implanters to insert grafts in bald areas. You get a hair implanter pen in all cases performed by CHI or DHT / MAGP technique at AKESO.
Less than 1 % of clinics use the CHOI Hair Implanter instead of needle and forceps pushed insertion. We at AKESO use the CHOI HAIR IMPLANTER IN all cases performed by CHI or DHT / MAGP technique.
No one in India uses 10X–25X magnification to see the donor area before extracting grafts. You can get that in the AKESO MAGP technique. None of the clinics in India offers you the technique of using a microscope to see graft quality during the graft extraction ( AKESO MAGP ) process.
We have defined our technique as AKESO CHI. Kindly read the details of AKESO CHI to know our technique of Advanced FUE with modified CHOI HAIR IMPLANTERS.
Around 98 % of clinics in India don’t use any hair implanter pen to insert your grafts. You can choose Normal FUE and AKESO CHI ( Advance FUE with CHOI HAIR IMPLANTER). If you select DHT or AKESO MAGP, you will always get an AKESO CHI complimentary combined.
Now, you can get official discounts by scheduling the hair transplant in various ways

HAIR TRANSPLANT TECHNIQUES SUMMARY

Some Patients search for clinics that have the best hair transplant technique. True, but the Impact of the hair transplant technique does not cross 20 – 30 % in your hair transplant. If the assistant does graft extraction, 35 – 50 % of the damage is there. So, it ultimately negotiates the gains met by any advanced hair transplant technique. So, getting hair grafts extracted by a qualified surgeon is more important. So any clinic offering the most advanced technique but getting hair graft extraction from assistants ( nurses, compounders, hair assistants, hair technicians, trichologists, etc ) or low-qualified doctors (dentists, homeopathy, or ayurveda doctors ) is not worth consideration. At AKESO, we ensure that all hair transplants get hair graft extractions by a qualified plastic surgeon in every package.

Hair transplant cost depends a lot on hair transplant techniques. So, you have to understand the hair transplant methods first before reading this page’s cost section. At AKESO, we continuously research and develop techniques to improve your results. We provide FUT, FUE, Beard, or body hair transplants. We offer Advanced FUE methods like AKESO CHI, DHT, and AKESO MAGP, which can positively impact your results. As we provide almost every technique possible in the field of hair transplant, pricing also varies for every method. So, below, we provide a summary of hair transplant techniques. Kindly read this section to understand processes before going to the costing table, so that all terminologies are precise.

Techniques Summary

1. FUT hair transplant is a technique in which cuts and stitches come on the back side of the head. Due to this, a significant linear scar appears on the back of your head. It is not very popular in India right now. In all other techniques, there are no scar marks.
2. Beard and body hair transplant – Takes more time to extract, so graft cost remains high. They are used when sufficient scalp grafts are not available.
3. Standard FUE – In the normal FUE process, graft insertion is done by the “NO root touch technique” with two forceps. This process requires slightly bigger holes and 30 % more time than the Implanter Pen FUE ( CHI ).
4. BIO FUE / BIO STIMULATED FUE / GROWTH FACTOR FUE / POWERED FUE. The surgical method remains like NORMAL FUE. WE DON’T CHARGE EXTRA FOR THIS METHOD. Kindly discuss the advantages and disadvantages with the doctor before surgery.
5. Sapphire FUE – Choose AKESO CHI . It includes Sapphire blades slit making complimentary. Sapphire blades are used to make slits in recipient area instead of needle. They do less trauma than needles. But in case a hair transplant is done in areas with existing hair, which are very close to each other, needles are preferred over blades.
6. AKESO CHI – This is a modified FUE method in which modified Choi hair implanters implant hair in the bald area instead of the normal forceps insertion method. It includes Sapphire FUE as slits or holes are made by sapphire blades. The slits/holes made for this are around 25 – 30 smaller than the traditional FUE insertion method. So, it reduces trauma and improves blood supply. Patients can opt for a 30 % higher density in the same amount of trauma on their bald area. Also, angles are more defined and sharper than traditional techniques. One more advantage is that hair transplant speed increases by around 30 – 40 %. The accuracy of hair graft insertion is 20 – 30 % more precise than the normal technique. The risk of long-term scarring and hair thinning is less than that of the traditional technique.
7. DHT (DIRECT HAIR TRANSPLANT) WITH AKESO CHI – We have added AKESO CHI complimentary with DHT TECHNIQUE for all patients. This advanced FUE method transfers hair grafts from your donor area to your bald spot within 10 to 60 minutes. In normal FUE, grafts may remain outside your body for 2 – 5 hours. Rest everything remains like normal FUE. It improves 10 – 15 % results in cases with higher grafts. In patients with less than 1,500 grafts, – up to 5 % impact is when inserting grafts with modified CHOI hair implanters, so the technique is called DHT with AKESO CHI.
8. AKESO MAGP with AKESO CHI – We have added AKESO CHI complimentary with AKESO MAGP TECHNIQUE for all patients. AKESO MAGP is a modified advanced FUE that works differently from the above two techniques. It is a method to improve graft quality by selecting better grafts. We use a microscope with 10X–25X magnification to examine your hair grafts at the time of graft removal. We try to compare grafts under a microscope. We remove ( extract) grafts with more thickness or grafts with more hair. It also reduces the partial transection of grafts. Graft quality increases by 20 – 30 %, transforming your hair transplant results. AKESO MAGP is different from other microscopic techniques available on the internet, as in this technique, we use a microscope before and during the removal of the graft from your donor area. In other methods, microscopes have utility after extracting grafts from the donor area. They are used for processing grafts and cannot alter hair quality.
9. AKESO MAGP with DHT and AKESO CHI = read details of AKESO MAGP and DHT TECHNIQUE above. We have added AKESO CHI complimentary with AKESO MAGP TECHNIQUE with DHT for all patients. Modified Advance FUE method in which we use microscope ( 10 X – 25 X ) to select grafts from donor area + Graft transfer from donor to bald spot 10 – 60 mins + use of modified Choi hair implanter to insert grafts in bald area
10. AKESO MSDF (Multi-Stage Deep Follicular Dissection FUE) is an advanced, multi-step follicular extraction method focusing on careful dissection of the surrounding tissue around each follicular unit. This method is performed by Dr Akhilesh Jangid with AKESO MSDF DEVICE and AKESO MSDF PUNCH. During graft dissection superficial layers are cut but rotation. Then, dynamic braking is used to stop the punch. After that, the punch vibrates or the low arc oscillates to go deeper. AKESO MSDF is a depth-based method. SURGEON feels and decides the adequate depth of dissection and then presses a foot switch to stop rotation and convert it to vibration or oscillation at the correct depth. It differs from other multiphasic methods available in the market, which are timer-based rather than surgeon assessment-based. It reduces graft damage, heat injury, and provides more fat around grafts without using trumpet-shaped punches or blunt punches.

WHICH HAIR TRANSPLANT TECHNIQUE IS BEST FOR YOU

There are many patients who ask us which technique to choose for their hair transplant

FUT – if you have more than grade 6 baldness and you have a donor area height less than 6 centimeters, then it is preferable to add FUT if you want complete coverage of your baldness. If you are afraid of scar marks on the back of your head, then kindly do not choose this technique
Sapphire FUE – Now if you choose AKESO CHI then we get sapphire blade slit making without any additional cost.
Normal standard FUE – In this technique, graft insertion is done by the “No root touch technique” utilising two forceps. Requires more time and more depending on assitant skill of inserting grafts into slits. More chances of J grafts.
FUE with Choi type implanters ( AKESO CHI ) – Slits are made by sapphire blades ( Sapphire FUE included in technique). It is preferable for more speed, accuracy and less dependent on assitant skills to insert grafts in slits. It has small holes, so less trauma to the bald area for insertion of grafts. It requires additional cost of implanter pen tools and additional staff to load grafts in implanter pens – making this more than expensive than STANDARD FUE PROCESS.
DHT (Direct hair transplant) – It involves the insertion of grafts within a few minutes in the bald area after graft extraction. No need to go for DHT if graft numbers are between 1000 and 1500. If the number of grafts is more than the role of DHT is more significant.
MAGP – MICROSCOPIC SELECTION OF GRAFTS DURING GRAFT EXTRACTION – It is Better in every case for graft extraction to provide more healthy grafts. But it is more tiring for the surgeon, so it is an expensive technique. It is a unique offering of AKESO. Choose this if budget is not a problem for you.
AKESO MSDF (Multi-Stage Deep Follicular Dissection FUE) is always a better method than normal graft extraction mechanisms. It is for improving graft quality without increasing the diameter of the punch. It is always beneficial, and you can add this to any method. The only disadvantage is that it is tiring for the surgeon, so the surgeon cannot perform it on every case right now. You can add this to your package at an additional cost.