Hair transplant (hair restoration) in Cairo: price and key facts
Hair transplant for patients from Cairo at City Medical Centre starts at EGP 115,000 (from $2,200). The first online consultation is free; the doctor names the final price and it is fixed in the contract.
Price
EGP 115,000 (from $2,200)
Performed by
Anastasia A. Kolesnik, hair transplant doctor
Anesthesia
local
Stay
one day at the clinic
Final result
12–18 months after surgery
How it works
Send photos on WhatsApp or Telegram, get a free doctor assessment and the price, then confirm the plan and dates before anything is booked.
Three graft transfer technologies are at work here: classic FUE, suture-free DHI and a combined protocol. Compare implantation technique, tissue trauma and graft survival, and choose your method.
FUE
Classic technique without incisions or stitches
Discount through November's end
$2,200
$2,700
Graft implantation technique
Forceps
Graft trauma
Minimal
Hair's natural angle
Natural
Graft survival
98–100%
Suitable for
Androgenetic alopecia
DHI
No-stitch implantation with a Choi pen
Discount through November's end
$2,500
$2,900
Graft implantation technique
Choi implanter, DHI pen
Graft trauma
Minimal
Hair's natural angle
Natural
Graft survival
98–100%
Suitable for
Densification
Combined DHI/FUE
FUE for extraction, DHI implant
Discount through November's end
$2,700
$2,900
Graft implantation technique
FUE extraction with DHI implant
Graft trauma
Minimal
Hair's natural angle
Natural
Graft survival
98–100%
Suitable for
Densification for androgenetic alopecia
Survival and trauma rates are given per method as averages, for guidance: the exact figures depend on the transplant area and the patient's individual features, and the doctor sets them out at the consultation.
The doctor has no reason to send you into theatre unnecessarily and says as much during the consultation, sparing your money. Below are set out the situations in which a transplant truly helps.
Good reasons to go ahead
Androgenetic or diffuse alopecia
Bald areas and a receding hairline
Contraindications
Trichotillomania
Body dysmorphic disorder
Cancer
Under 18 years of age
A high hairline
Insufficient hair density
Genetic traits of hair growth
Damage caused by a burn or injury
Shedding after an illness
Shedding due to a hormonal imbalance
Intolerance to anaesthetics
Epilepsy
Serious heart conditions
Diabetes mellitus
A pacemaker
AIDS/HIV, Hepatitis B/C
Pulmonary embolism (PE)
Patchy alopecia
Still unclear whether you fit?
A number is the only thing we ask for. Images of where hair has thinned reach a coordinator in a messenger, a doctor reviews them and says if a transplant would help. Free, and nothing gets booked.
From surgery preparation through 12-month follow-up.
Lifelong growth, guaranteed
Instalments available
The dressings required and healing checks
Your care plan for transplant and donor areas
Guidance on hair washing, on sleep and on headwear
A plan for getting back to sport and hair care
Talk to your own coordinator and send photos as things change
Post-op checks at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months
The sum agreed stands on the day of surgery.
another two areas
Beard and eyebrow transplants
The scalp is not the only option. Same grafts from the back of the head, same FUE method — only the area changes.
Beard transplant
The FUE method, no incisions used
The back of the head serves as the donor area: grafts move from there through micro-punctures of about 1 mm and leave no scars. The doctor discusses the shape with you before the operation, taking your facial features into account. Transplanted hair grows for life and the beard is trimmed and styled as usual.
Shape first, hairs second: at the opening consultation the surgeon puts down the brow line, reference photos are reviewed with you, and your facial proportions define the line. Each hair sits at the growth angle, which is why the brows look genuine. It equally suits growth lost to long years of plucking.
Clean, well-equipped rooms and staff who notice you
1
The first assessment
The consultation, free of charge, covers how FUE and DHI work, gives you space to ask questions, and ends with an individual plan tailored to your surgery.
2
Fixing a day in theatre
Reserving the surgery date means paying a deposit, either by card at the clinic or online, with the terms recorded in a medical services contract.
3
Groundwork ahead of the operation
The clinic outlines exactly what tests are needed before the operation and gives instructions to help you complete them.
4
Anaesthetic first – discomfort is gone
Local anaesthesia numbs the area before surgery starts, keeping the entire procedure painless.
5
Taking the grafts out of the donor area
This step collects grafts from the donor zone — the back of the head or the temples — using a scarless technique.
6
Filling in the bare scalp with live units
This step places each graft into the area affected by hair loss.
7
The road back once all the work is done
Recovery wraps up the process, with the clinic offering all essentials and thorough instructions.
8
0-10 days — Soothing
The crusts shed, the swelling goes down, the area gradually recovers
9
2-4 weeks — Transplanted hairs shed off
A normal stage. The hairs fall out, but the follicles stay in place
10
3-4 months — Regrowth starts
New hairs fill in gradually, the result shows
11
6-9 months — Volume returns
Thickness is gained, and the volume with its outline is evident
12
12-18 months — The end result
The hair reaches its full volume and a natural edge
Your graft requirement is established first, and then the course of the operation is described at the consultation
I was having trouble with my hair. I came here and got a hair transplant. The results was awesome thank you
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★★★★★Илья Вячеславович
І experienced hair loss due to COVID and turned to this clinic; they helped me and performed a hair transplant, moving hair from the back of my head to my temples. Thank you.
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★★★★★ilya svyatoslavovich
I traveled to City Medical Centre, where they helped me overcome hair loss through a transplant to the balding areas of my scalp. I am grateful to the doctors for performing the procedure painlessly.
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★★★★★Мансур Касанбаев
I am sharing my experience, because before the operation I went through a pile of reviews myself and was looking for real stories.
I had a beard transplant six months ago. Honestly, in the first days after the procedure I felt a little jittery: my face looked unfamiliar, there was slight swelling and small scabs. In the first couple of months the hair partly fell out, as the doctor had warned.
But now the result truly makes me very happy) From about the 4th month active, even growth began. The transplanted hair took very well, the beard now looks as natural as possible, no bald patches are left. The beard became much thicker and denser, with the shape I had thought about for a long time.
All in all, I recommend the clinic, the doctor was polite and explained everything 👍
The result is definitely worth it!
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★★★★★Dinh Nguyen
I traveled to this clinic and do hair transplant, very good quality and cheap. Good doctors
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★★★★★Hải Cao
I do hair transplant here very good doctors!!
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Usual things asked
We tell what people ask before booking
People often say hair implants, but no artificial hair is used. In a hair transplant the doctor moves your own follicles (grafts) from the donor area to thinning or bald areas using FUE or DHI.
Yes — patients from other cities and countries are welcome, and you can start with a free online consultation.
Pricing starts from $2,200 (≈ EGP 115,000) for FUE, $2,500 (≈ EGP 135,000) for DHI, and $2,700 (≈ EGP 145,000) for combined DHI+FUE. The exact figure is confirmed for free after a graft count and written into the contract.
The procedure is completed within a single day, after which you head home.
It helps with stable pattern hair loss and a receding hairline when there are enough donor grafts. Some types of alopecia need treatment first; the doctor checks this at the consultation.
It's a painless procedure, carried out under local anaesthesia.
FUE is cut-free graft extraction by tweezer. DHI is direct implantation with a Choi pen, skipping channel-making. The combined technique takes grafts by FUE and places them using the DHI method.
At the free consultation, the doctor counts the grafts you need according to your donor area.
0–10 days for healing, 2–4 weeks for normal shedding of transplanted hair, 3–4 months for new growth to start, 6–9 months for real density, and 12–18 months for the final result.
Hair growth is covered by a lifetime guarantee, fixed in the signed contract.
You can check everything before you pay
The clinic holds a medical licence, care is provided to the standards and clinical guidelines
of the Ministry of Health.
Diplomas and certificates of the doctors at the surgery
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Hair transplant for Cairo: method, start, timeline
Nothing about FUE and DHI changes for a patient in Cairo: no cuts, no stitches, local anaesthesia, and a single day for the operation itself. Graft survival is 98-100 %, and a price starting at $2,200 (≈ EGP 115,000) is fixed in the contract after a free graft count.
Begin with a photo, not with paperwork, if you are in Cairo: the free online consultation gives the doctor a view of the thinning area and a graft count. The clinic is in touch 24/7, so the answer is never delayed for long.
The healing period is 0-10 days and the shedding of transplanted hairs at 2-4 weeks is part of the plan. Growth restarts at 3-4 months, density at 6-9, the finished result at 12-18. Check-ups at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months and photo tracking with a personal coordinator, with a lifetime growth guarantee.
Hair Transplant in Cairo: price and what is included
Prices are in US dollars; the amount in brackets is an approximate conversion to EGP at the rate of 02.10.2026. The final price is fixed in your contract.
A big-city decision: what to pin down before any date is held
Cairo's population was recorded at 9,801,536 for the city proper in the 2023 figure, and Greater Cairo is put at more than 22 million. Numbers like these say nothing about whether a transplant makes sense for one particular head, and that depends on questions only your own file can answer. The sections below are a way to turn those questions into a short written file you can compare calmly.
Start with a single page written in your own words. Note when the thinning began, which areas are affected, what has been tried, and what you hope the front and top of the scalp will look like in two years. Then add the medical background a surgeon would ask about, including any chronic illness, regular medication and past reactions to anaesthetics. Writing it down first prevents the common pattern of answering fifteen different questions from three different clinics and forgetting what you said to whom.
Photographs come next. Take them in daylight, from above, head-on, both sides and the back, and keep the originals unedited. Send the set to a coordinator by WhatsApp or Telegram; a doctor goes through it and you learn whether grafts look sensible. As the opening consultation costs nothing and happens online, none of this binds you, and the same pack can go to other clinics with all replies landing in one folder.
A realistic expectation is the most valuable thing the first reply can give you. A doctor who treats your own case as unique, rather than quoting what happened to someone else, is giving you the kind of answer worth keeping.
Reading the lists of who is suitable and who is not
The clinic is blunt that many people leave better off without an operation, and it tells them so at the consultation. Good reasons to go ahead are androgenetic or diffuse alopecia, bald zones, and a frontal edge that has retreated. Set your own summary beside those three and see whether your situation fits one of them.
The other list is longer. Surgery is not the answer for a high front edge by itself, for low density, for inherited growth patterns, for scars left by burns or injuries, for hair lost after illness or through hormonal imbalance, or for patchy alopecia. Firm barriers to the operation are a pacemaker, diabetes mellitus, epilepsy, cancer, HIV or hepatitis B or C, serious heart trouble, any earlier pulmonary embolism, anaesthetic intolerance, trichotillomania, body dysmorphic disorder and being a minor.
Do not argue with the list in your head. If one item might apply, say so in your first message and let the doctor decide, because the answer may depend on details you cannot judge. A reply that begins by saying no is not a failed consultation; it saves you money and a recovery you did not need.
Two practical points follow from this. The doctor you meet at the consultation is the one who operates, and the number of grafts is established by examining the donor zone, never by a table. Keep both facts in mind when you read quotes from places that give a precise count over a message.
Three methods and a follow-up calendar you can hold in your hand
In FUE every graft is drawn out one at a time by forceps, leaving no cuts and needing no sutures. With DHI the Choi pen places the graft straight into the skin, so channels are never prepared in advance. A third option borrows from both: grafts are taken the FUE way and set the DHI way. The survival and trauma percentages printed for each method are only typical values. Your own figures hinge on the treated zone and on you personally, so the doctor presents them once the donor area has been examined. Beard and eyebrow work draws on that very donor region, so ask about it in the same chat.
Expect a single session on the day, with local anaesthesia, and then you go home. In the run-up the clinic spells out which tests to take and helps you get them done. Holding the date takes a deposit, payable by card or online, and every term is written into a medical services contract. Nothing about the agreed sum shifts when you arrive for the operation.
The long wait follows. For the first ten days crusts shed and swelling subsides. Weeks two to four bring the shedding of the new hairs, a routine event since the follicles stay put. New growth begins after three to four months, thickness comes back over months six to nine, and the end result needs twelve to eighteen months. Follow-up appointments sit at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months, with a personal coordinator dealing with pictures and queries between them.
Copy the five check-up points and the stages onto one sheet, with the surgery date marked beside them. Take each later picture of the same areas in matching light and put the date in the file name before sending. Looking back, that sequence tells you far more than recollection ever will. It also gives the doctor something precise to compare at every visit.
The Egyptian Medical Syndicate and the portal at ems.org.eg
Physicians in Egypt are organised in the Egyptian Medical Syndicate, which dates from 1940. Descriptions call it a semi-governmental organisation which helps the Ministry of Health license physicians, and its membership exceeds 230,000 registered doctors.
Its official portal is ems.org.eg, which offers electronic services, specialist registers and an enquiry service about doctors' specialties. A sensible routine is to get the surgeon's full name from the coordinator, use the portal's inquiry about doctors' specialties with that name, and note what it shows. If the entry does not match what you were told, ask the clinic to explain before you pay anything.
On the clinic's side, a medical licence is stated and the doctors' qualification papers can be viewed, while the hair transplant specialists are introduced by name. Combine both checks: the papers the clinic offers and the independent entry from the syndicate. Save a screenshot or a note of the date you checked, and keep it with your copy of the contract.
Universal health insurance and what the contract settles
Egypt's Universal Health Insurance Law, Law No. 2 of 2018, creates a mandatory system that is replacing the older insurance gradually and treats the family as its main unit of coverage. How it interacts with a cosmetic procedure such as a hair transplant is a question for the insurer, not for the clinic. Ask in writing, keep the answer, and do not assume cover.
The one financial document that is certainly yours is the contract. The price is established after the graft count at the free consultation and written into it, and the clinic says that the sum agreed stands on the day of surgery. Read it for four things: the method named, what is included in the sum, the follow-up schedule, and the way a change of plan would be handled. If one of them is missing, request a corrected copy before you transfer a deposit.
What should I write down before the first online consultation?
Note when the thinning started, which areas are affected, any treatment already tried, chronic illnesses, regular medication and past reactions to anaesthetics. Add daylight photographs from above, head-on, both sides and behind.
Can I raise a beard or eyebrow transplant in the same conversation?
Yes. Those procedures draw on the same donor area at the back of the head and use the FUE principle, so the doctor can discuss them alongside scalp work.
Where do I check that a surgeon is registered in Egypt?
Ask for the full name and check the specialty with the Egyptian Medical Syndicate through the inquiry service on its official portal at ems.org.eg. The syndicate is described as supporting the Ministry of Health with physician licensing. Keep a note of the date you checked.
Does Egypt's new health insurance cover cosmetic work?
The law is being introduced in stages and treats the family as the main unit of cover. Whether a cosmetic transplant is included is a question for your insurer, so ask in writing.
What does it mean if the doctor says a transplant is not suitable?
It means one of the clinic's exclusion criteria may apply, or that your thinning does not fit the cases where grafts help. Nothing is booked and nothing is charged for that assessment, and you keep the written reply.
How do I keep track of my progress over the year?
Photograph the same areas in the same light at each check-up, at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months, rename the files with dates and send them to your coordinator, who remains in touch through recovery.
Which parts of the contract matter most?
The named method, what the sum covers, the follow-up schedule, and how a change of plan is handled. Ask for a corrected copy if any of these is missing.
Forceps
Minimal
