The
cost of hair transplantation varies
from one centre to another. This
variation exists due to the different quality of the resources used by
different centres. Many centres reduce the price of the surgery to attract
masses. Most of the players play on a “Price War Strategy” with each other to
win over more clients. But at the same
time most of them also reduces the quality of the resources to increase their
profit margins.
A high quality hair transplant
surgery is only possible when a highly qualified team carries out the surgery,
under the presence of a well qualified doctor.
A quality conscious
hair transplant centre incurs costs such as training costs, cost of more effective
medicines, solutions, usables, costs for running the centre and the most
important quality control and management costs.
Being focused on the quality
aspects of the surgery, DHT Clinic incurs all of the above mentioned costs
willingly to provide a high quality hair transplantation surgery. Dr. Pradeep Sethi and Dr. Arika Sethi trained
from AIIMS, New Delhi, perform these surgeries themselves by exceeding the
international quality standards.
As one patient said: “You never remember the price of a good surgery and you
never forget the price of a bad surgery.”
The price per transplanted follicular unit graft is Rs 40-90
depending upon the technique that a person wants to go for.
We estimate the numbers of follicular units as accurately as we
can in advance of surgery but, as the density of follicular unit varies all
over the scalp, the actual number of follicles transplanted may be slightly
higher or lower than our estimates. A careful audit is kept during surgery and
you will only be charged for the actual number of follicular units
transplanted.
The price varies between centers, because of the variation in
expertise of the team, experience of the doctors and whether the doctor himself
is doing the surgery or getting it done by hired technicians or all together a
travelling team is doing the surgery and the centre is arranging the cases.
The price also depends upon the quality of instruments and
quality of usables used in the surgery. The patients have all the rights to
know the quality of the instruments used in his surgery, the actual transection
rate (permanent cutting of the roots) in the surgery. Whether the centre is
using sharp or blunt punches. Punches are from a good international company
(like Cole instruments, Harris instruments and Ellis instruments) or prepared
in China/Korea or local.
Blunt punches of Harris system are best with least transaction
rate. They are very costly at the same time. Sharp punches of Cole instruments
are also extremely good but with high price. If the doctor using these best
quality instruments then all these has a cost. Special patented instruments are
used to avoid the root handling during plantation, lest there is chance of
crushing the root leading to permanent loss of roots.
Best quality instruments are required in the three steps of hair
transplantation; extraction, storage and plantation. Each step is very crucial,
should be in front of the doctor simultaneously.
The cost also
involves the training exposure of the team. If the team is regularly updating
themselves in national and international conferences, then their quality of
surgery will be much better. The patients can find about all the doctors in the
Indian (http://www.ahrsindia.com) as well as
International hair restoration society (http://www.ishrs.org).
Transplanting roots and growing them is the main purpose of hair
transplantation. At the same time the transplanted hair should grow in the
right angle, with optimum density and the new hairline should not look
artificial. These things come with attending national and international
workshops and conferences.
Due to low quality (low cost) instruments, there will be
permanent damage of the hair roots. This means; if there is a target of 1000
grafts; it is possible with poor quality instruments/team that they have
punched 1300 times. This means 300 roots were cut through and through but did
not come out! This is called transaction of roots (permanent loss from the
scalp!). Out of these 1000 roots some 700-800 roots will grow with poor quality
instruments used for transportation and plantation.
It is obvious that if any hair transplant centre is using less
efficient instruments available in market at low cost, then the cost will be
less compared to us because we do not compromise on quality.
