Why does Mittal Hair Clinic cost more than clinics abroad?

Because one surgeon treats one patient a day and performs the surgery himself. Lower headline prices usually reflect technician-led procedures, several patients in a day, or aftercare charged separately. Travel, accommodation and the practical difficulty of returning for follow-up also offset the apparent saving, and regulatory standards vary between countries.

Can I get an exact price without a consultation?

No reputable clinic can give a firm price without assessing your donor density and the area to be treated. A fixed quote offered without an assessment should be treated with caution.

Is the price per graft?

No. The fee reflects the surgical plan, its complexity, the time required and the level of surgeon involvement. Graft numbers guide the plan; they do not set the fee. It is why a repair case using fewer grafts can cost more than a straightforward one-day procedure.

Does FUE or FUT cost more?

FUE is the more labour-intensive technique, so a plan built around it generally takes more time than one using FUT. But which technique suits you is a clinical decision made at consultation, not a matter of choosing the cheaper option — and the two are often combined to make the most of the donor area.

Does the price include aftercare?

Yes. Consultation and surgical planning, the procedure itself, post-operative medication and structured follow-up appointments are all included in the surgical fee. What is covered is confirmed in writing before you book.

Is a hair transplant available on the NHS?

No. Hair transplants are considered a cosmetic procedure and are not funded by the NHS, except in rare cases involving trauma or burns.

Private hair restoration in London

Hair transplant cost in the UK

Led by Dr Manish Mittal, hair restoration in the City of London. Every fee on this page reflects a surgical plan rather than a graft count — and every plan is built by the surgeon who will carry it out.

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Before the numbers

Price, framed by what you are actually buying

Surgeon-led hair restoration in the City of London. Every fee on this page reflects a surgical plan rather than a graft count — and every plan is built by the surgeon who will carry it out.

Surgeon-led

Consultation, planning and the critical surgical stages are carried out by Dr Manish Mittal — including every extraction and every recipient site.

One patient a day

The surgical day is reserved around a single patient rather than run to a high-volume clinic schedule.

Donor preservation

Planning is done for the long term. Grafts are treated as a finite resource, not a number to maximise.

Natural design

Hairline shape, direction, calibre and density are planned around your face and your pattern of loss — not a template.

THE INVESTMENT

Hair restoration, planned around the case - not sold by the graft.

The fee reflects the surgical plan, complexity, time required and level of surgeon involvement. Graft numbers are an important planning tool, but they are not the product.

ONE-DAY PROCEDURE

from £10,000

Typically suited to a focused restoration that can be completed safely within one surgical day.

TWO-DAY PROCEDURE

from £16,000

For larger or more complex restorations where a staged two-day approach is more appropriate.

CORRECTIVE / REPAIR

from £12,000

For previous transplant work requiring redesign, refinement, camouflage or donor-conscious corrective planning.

Guide fees published by Mittal Hair Clinic. The figure for any individual is confirmed in writing after consultation.

Every surgical fee includes

Consultation & surgical planning

The surgical procedure

Post-operative medication

Structured follow-up

The consultation

A consultation with Dr Mittal is £250, credited in full against your surgical fee if you go ahead. There are no free consultations at Mittal Hair Clinic, and that is deliberate: the assessment is a surgical one, carried out by the surgeon who would perform the procedure.

Priority Surgery Programme

For patients who need treatment within a shorter timeframe, a bespoke fast-track service allows eligible patients to access an earlier surgical date, subject to clinical suitability and availability. Details are available on application.

What moves the number

Why two patients are quoted differently

Extent of the loss

How much area needs treating, and whether it can be addressed safely in one surgical day or should be staged across two.

The donor area

Density, hair calibre and how much can be taken without thinning the donor zone itself. This sets the ceiling on what is achievable.

Technique

FUE extraction is more labour-intensive than strip harvesting. Some plans combine both to make the most of the available donor supply.

Complexity

Corrective work on a previous transplant, scarred donor tissue or combined procedures such as beard-to-scalp all take longer.

On the cheapest quote

In hair restoration, the price usually tells you who is actually holding the instrument. A low headline figure can mean a technician-led procedure, a compressed session, or aftercare charged separately once you have committed.

The more expensive mistake is what it does to the donor area. A poorly planned transplant spends donor hair that cannot be replaced, and corrective work is harder, slower and dearer than doing it once. That is why repair cases at this clinic start at £12,000 — more than a straightforward one-day procedure — even though they often involve fewer grafts.

The map

Where hair is taken, and where it goes

A transplant redistributes hair rather than adding it. Grafts come from the horseshoe of permanent hair at the back and sides — the donor zone — and are placed into the areas that have thinned.

Viewed from above, forehead at the top.

Diagram is schematic, not to scale. Zone numbering follows Mittal Hair Clinic’s own surgical planning.

Hairline

Rebuilding or lowering the frontal hairline, and reinforcing recession at the temples.

Frontal third

Zones 1 and 2 treated together. Where loss is more advanced, the work is blended further back so the result stays natural as the pattern develops.

Mid-scalp

The band between the frontal third and the crown.

Crown

The vertex. Hair grows in several directions here, so the angles have to be mimicked closely; a second session is sometimes needed to match the density achieved at the front.

Donor zone

The horseshoe at the back and sides. These follicles are typically more resistant to androgenetic hair loss, so they keep growing once moved — but the supply is finite.

Indicative planning ranges

How many grafts will I need?

Enough grafts to achieve the objective. No more than the donor area should give. These are the ranges Dr Mittal plans to, by zone — the number appropriate to you is set at consultation.

Zone 1 · Hairline 1,500–2,000 grafts

Receding temples with slight frontal reinforcement. Where it lands in the range depends on how far the hairline has receded and on the quality of the donor area.

Zones 1 & 2 · Frontal third 1,800–2,400 grafts

The most common plan. Usually blended further back to keep the result natural against future loss.

Zone 4 · Crown 1,800–2,400 grafts

May need more than one session to match the density achievable at the front.

Corrective · Repair 500–2,000 grafts

Fewer grafts, more difficulty. Depleted donor areas and heavy scarring make even low-count procedures demanding, and a dedicated instrument is used to penetrate scar tissue while adding as little further scarring as possible.

A note on graft numbers

A procedure of around 2,000 grafts can typically be completed within a one-day surgical plan, subject to individual assessment. The final recommendation depends on the area being treated, existing density, hair calibre, donor characteristics, future hair-loss risk and the aesthetic objective.

Technique

Two ways to harvest donor hair

Both are performed under local anaesthetic, and both can be combined in one plan to make the most of the donor supply. FUE is the more labour-intensive of the two, which is part of what the fee reflects. Which suits you is decided at consultation.

	FUE	FUT
Harvesting	Individual follicular units are removed one at a time from the sides and back of the head.	A thin strip is taken from the donor area and dissected into individual grafts.
Instrument	A microsurgical extraction tool, 0.6–1.0 mm in diameter.	Strip excision closed using trichophytic closure, which draws hair through the closure line.
Donor marks	Avoids the linear donor scar associated with FUT; extraction sites heal as small circular marks.	A single line, made difficult to detect once hair grows through it.
Yield	Grafts extracted individually, each carrying one or more hairs.	Produces a larger quantity of transplantable hair in one session.
Often suits	Patients who want to avoid a linear donor scar.	More advanced balding with a narrower donor area; long hair, curly hair, and many female cases.
Session	Larger cases of 2,500–3,000 grafts are typically planned across two days.	A one-day procedure under local anaesthetic.

Before you commit

Four things worth understanding

None of this is designed to sell you a procedure. It is what patients most often have wrong when they arrive, and getting it right changes what a fair price looks like.

A graft is not a hair A graft is not the same thing as a hair. Each follicular-unit graft may contain one or several hairs, which is why graft counts and hair counts are never the same number. The aim is intelligent distribution, not simply a larger graft count.

The donor supply is finite Hair is redistributed from the donor area. Transplantation does not create new follicles. What is spent today is not available for a second procedure later.

Loss can progress Native, untransplanted hair may continue to thin. Planning therefore has to account for the likely future pattern, not only the one in front of us today.

Time matters Early growth commonly becomes apparent around months three to four. Meaningful change develops over the following months, with maturation potentially continuing to 12–18 months.

What to expect

Results arrive slowly, and that is normal

Transplanted follicles have to settle before they resume a normal growth cycle. Anyone promising a finished result in weeks is misleading you.

7–10 days

Scabs clear

Small scabs form around the grafts and usually disappear within a week to ten days.

1–4 weeks

Shedding phase

Transplanted hairs shed. This is expected and does not mean the graft has failed.

3–4 months

Growth begins

New hairs appear, thin and light at first, strengthening as follicles establish.

6 months

Visible change

Noticeable improvement in density and coverage; new hair begins to blend with existing hair.

9–12 months

Maturing result

Density, texture and calibre continue to mature. Final maturation may continue to 12–18 months, particularly in the crown.

Source: Mittal Hair Clinic patient information. Individual timelines vary.

Real plans

What a plan actually looks like

Four cases treated at the clinic. The split between single, double and triple grafts is what determines how a hairline reads — singles at the leading edge for softness, multiples behind for density.

Lewis Baines

Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE)

2,234

Total Grafts

Singles357

Doubles892

Triples985

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Sam Hinkes

Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE)

2,100

Total Grafts

Singles375

Doubles1,000

Triples725

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Tyler Moret

Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE)

2,200

Total Grafts

Singles376

Doubles980

Triples844

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Ben

Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE)

2,340

Total Grafts

Singles321

Doubles1,120

Triples899

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Frequently Asked Questions

Hair Transplant Costs

World Class restoration procedure with all our attention on you as a single patient, so that every patient gets the VIP experience.

We want to be extremely transparent with our prices, and so have put together a rough guide on what to expect.

Repair work is worked out separately depending on the approach adopted. We also offer a 12 month supply of hair loss stabilising medication. All of this is of course subject to consultation.

We base our pricing on the following parameters:

Dr Manish Mittal will be doing your surgery and is a world renowned IAHRS leading hair restoration surgeon.

He will be doing the harvest, so the extraction will be completed by Dr Mittal personally, and depending on method of procedure for implantation he will either do the incisions using his signature high density precision technique, or will use implanters to replace the grafts in the recipient sites.

Dr. Mittal focuses on one patient a day and therefore you’ll have his undivided attention throughout the procedure.

We only use the best instruments in our practice, be that the WAW machine, Zeus (from U graft), or the Trivelini machine we have it all to suit your specific needs.

Understanding pricing is an important part of planning your procedure, and our Hair Transplants London service is designed to provide clear, surgeon-led guidance on graft numbers, technique, and long-term value.