Calculator for Cost of Hair Transplant
Hair transplantation has come a long way from being the procedure available only to the celebrities. Cost of hair transplant has also come down significantly. Mostly because of easy modification in the procedure techniques and much less downtime in terms of dressings and hospital stay has reduced overall costs to the patients. Today the cost of hair transplantation is measured on ‘per follicle’ basis.
In India the range of the cost is somewhere between 40 to up to 150 INR per follicle with average hair transplant requiring roughly 2500 grafts. This rate may vary from clinic to clinic and country to country.
The cost of hair transplant all over the internet is a bit foggy. It involves lots of calculations, something to do with the ‘follicle’ or the ‘grafts’ or ‘number of hair’ even ‘effective hair number’. This is very confusing to patients who really have to know how much it will be on their pockets. I will clear out a few things first:
Follicle or Hair follicle or simply the hair, is an entire hair up to the hair root with surrounding coverings and glands.
Research has shown that neighbouring hair follicles especially over the scalp grow in together in groups. In Follicular Unit transplantation, rather than removing individual follicles, follicular units are removed. This approach not only ensures better survival of hair but also produces naturally appearing hair. In hair transplantation the word “graft” is synonymous with “follicular unit”.
What do you mean when the site say how many hairs are transplanted?
Sometimes the hair transplant surgeons explain the patients how much hair they are really going to get. This is just to increase the numerical figure. For example, instead of saying 2000 ‘grafts’ transplanted, it feels ‘prestigious’ or ‘profound’ to say 6000 ‘hair’ transplanted (if one follicular unit or a graft contains 3 hair follicles or hair then 2000 X 3=6000 hairs).This approach is purely a marketing approach and a game of numbers.