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City Medical Centre

Hair Transplant
Clinic in Madrid

0% instalments

from $367/mo

Work-up and a number — $0.

Real story

Hair transplant: photo of a patient before the operation and 12 months later

start

12 months since

FUE method, no scalpel and no thread. Graft numbers and forecast totted up at no cost to you — before you decide.

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Hair transplant (hair restoration) in Madrid: price and key facts

Hair transplant for patients from Madrid at City Medical Centre starts at €2,000 (from $2,200). The first online consultation is free; the doctor names the final price and it is fixed in the contract.

Price
€2,000 (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.

How it works · Hair transplant prices

Information current as of 5 November 2026

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results

Here is how hair looks
8–12 months later

Actual patients of City Medical Centre, all of them.

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2800 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,800 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3500 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,500 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2600 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,600 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3000 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,000 grafts

FUE method

Beard transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2700 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,700 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3300 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,300 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2900 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,900 grafts

FUE method

Beard transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2500 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,500 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3400 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,400 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2500 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,500 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3100 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,100 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3600 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,600 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 4000 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

4,000 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3200 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,200 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3000 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,000 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3700 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,700 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2700 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,700 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3800 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,800 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3300 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,300 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2800 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,800 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2500 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,500 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3900 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,900 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3500 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,500 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3800 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,800 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2900 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,900 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3600 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,600 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2600 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,600 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2700 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,700 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3700 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,700 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3200 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,200 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3000 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,000 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2800 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,800 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 4000 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

4,000 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3400 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,400 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2900 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,900 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3100 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,100 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2600 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,600 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3300 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,300 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3900 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,900 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3500 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,500 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2700 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,700 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3800 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,800 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3200 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,200 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3000 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,000 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 2800 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

2,800 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3100 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,100 grafts

FUE method

Scalp hair transplant: photo before and 12 months later, 3600 grafts, FUE method

start

12 months since

3,600 grafts

FUE method

Comparison

Hair transplant methods
FUE and DHI

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 method requiring no cuts or sutures

Hair transplant with the FUE method
Discount through November's end

$2,200

$2,700

Graft implantation technique

Forceps

Graft trauma

Minimal

The natural growth angle

Natural

Graft survival

98–100%

Suitable for

Androgenetic alopecia

DHI

Implantation with a Choi pen, no sutures

Hair transplant with the DHI method
Discount through November's end

$2,500

$2,900

Graft implantation technique

Choi implanter, DHI pen

Graft trauma

Minimal

The natural growth angle

Natural

Graft survival

98–100%

Suitable for

Densification

Combined DHI/FUE

FUE extraction, DHI pen implant

Combined DHI and FUE protocol
Discount through November's end

$2,700

$2,900

Graft implantation technique

Extraction by FUE, DHI implant

Graft trauma

Minimal

The natural growth angle

Natural

Graft survival

98–100%

Suitable for

Androgenetic alopecia and densification

The survival and trauma figures shown are method averages, a guide only: exact numbers depend on the transplant area and the patient's individual features, and the doctor clarifies them at the consultation.

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Hair transplants from the inside: expert analysis and patient stories

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about the clinic

A centre where you
will feel settled

Comfortable rooms, up-to-date equipment, care for each patient

The City Medical Centre team with a patient after a hair transplant

Any of these will reach the clinic

Your questions will be answered and a convenient consultation time found

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Half of those asking hear a no

When surgery is not needed in your case, the doctor will say so at the consultation — and you will not waste your money. Below are the conditions in which a transplant really works.

A man with bald patches at a consultation: a case where a hair transplant helps

Where it earns its place

  • Androgenetic or diffuse alopecia
  • Bald areas and a receding hairline
  • A high hairline
  • Insufficient hair density
  • Genetic side of hair growth
  • Consequences of an injury or a burn
  • Shedding after an illness
  • Shedding tied to hormonal imbalance

Which category, though, is yours?

Leave a way to reach you. Images of where hair has thinned are requested in a messenger by a coordinator, then a doctor answers whether a transplant would help you. No charge, no booking made.

A doctor looking at a photo of a thinning area on a phone
Could this work for me?

services

You learn the price
before the surgery

The consultation is free, the grafts are counted there, and the price you hear is the one in the contract.

Discount through November's end

FUE method

suture-free graft extraction

Hair transplant with the FUE method — operating room at City Medical Centre

$2,200$2,700

or $367/mo — 0% instalments for 6 months

Keep the cost as is
Discount through November's end

DHI method

implantation without channels

Hair transplant with the DHI method and a Choi pen — operating room at City Medical Centre

$2,500$2,900

or $417/mo — 0% instalments for 6 months

Keep the cost as is
Discount through November's end

DHI+FUE combo method

combined technique

Combined DHI and FUE hair transplant — operating room at City Medical Centre

$2,700$2,900

or $450/mo — 0% instalments for 6 months

Keep the cost as is
Discount through November's end

Other procedures

Where it all beginsFree
Eyebrow transplant, FUE$1,700$1,600
Beard transplant, FUEinstalments $467/mo$3,000$2,800
Hair trichopigmentation$2,000$1,700
PRP therapy / session$200
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all included

What is included
in $2,200

From readiness for surgery to 12 months of follow-up.

Guaranteed, growth for life
Instalments available

You are never billed twice on surgery day.

two extra patches

Beard and eyebrow
transplants

A hair transplant is not only about the scalp. Grafts from the back of the head, the FUE method — only the area changes.

Beard transplant

The FUE method, no incisions used

A surgeon marking the beard line before a transplant at City Medical Centre

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.

$2,800$3,000

or $467/mo — 0% instalments for 6 months

Keep the cost as is

Eyebrow transplant

The FUE method, no incisions used

A surgeon marking the eyebrow shape before a transplant at City Medical Centre

The surgeon works out the brow shape on the spot at the initial appointment, references are compared together and your facial proportions set the design. Hairs go in angled to the growth, which is why the brows never look drawn. Brows that stopped growing under the tweezers come back into play.

$1,600$1,700

an op you leave the same day, local anaesthesia

Keep the cost as is

Get a graft count and a quote

The doctor checks the donor zone, arrives at a graft number and explains what outcome is realistic. What you agree at the appointment is exactly what the contract says.

Operating room at City Medical Centre

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Process

One day in the clinic —
and go on home

Comfortable rooms, up-to-date equipment, care for each patient

Where it all begins — hair transplant at City Medical Centre
1

Where it all begins

The initial consultation is where the doctor explains FUE and DHI in detail, answers your questions, and creates a personal operation plan. It's completely free.

Pinning down the timing
2

Pinning down the timing

The date gets reserved through a deposit payment, made either by card at the clinic or online, with the full terms laid out in a medical services contract.

Just ahead of the procedure itself — hair transplant at City Medical Centre
3

Just ahead of the procedure itself

The clinic outlines exactly what tests are needed before the operation and gives instructions to help you complete them.

Anaesthetic – you will not feel a thing — hair transplant at City Medical Centre
4

Anaesthetic – you will not feel a thing

With local anaesthesia in place, the operation is painless throughout its duration.

Where all the new hair is collected from — hair transplant at City Medical Centre
5

Where all the new hair is collected from

Harvesting grafts from the back of the head or the temples happens without stitches at this stage.

Setting the follicles into the bald patch — hair transplant at City Medical Centre
6

Setting the follicles into the bald patch

This step places each graft into the area affected by hair loss.

Getting better again after the operation — hair transplant at City Medical Centre
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Getting better again after the operation

The clinic hands you all the essentials and complete instructions to help you recover quickly.

Healing after a hair transplant, 0-10 days
8

0-10 days — Downtime

Crusts detach, puffiness fades, and the skin steadily settles down

Shedding of the transplanted hairs after a hair transplant, 2-4 weeks
9

2-4 weeks — Loss of the transplanted hairs

No cause for worry, the shafts drop and the roots are untouched

Growth begins after a hair transplant, 3-4 months
10

3-4 months — First sprouts

New hairs show up step by step, the result begins

Visible density after a hair transplant, 6-9 months
11

6-9 months — Thicker on top

Thicker hair, with the main volume and the contour now visible

Final result after a hair transplant, 12-18 months
12

12-18 months — Settled look

The final density and a natural hairline form

At the consultation the doctor calculates how many grafts you personally need and explains how the transplant goes

A doctor's appointment at City Medical Centre

Free, before the operation, free of any commitment.

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doctors

Specialists

Kristina A. Tropina, assistant

Kristina A. Tropina

Assistant

9 years in practice

At the consultation you sit with the person who will operate.

Expect an examination of the donor zone, a graft figure, and a clear picture of the likely outcome.

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coordinators

Minding your booking

A personal coordinator stays with you from your first enquiry through to recovery.

Svetlana, patient care specialist

Svetlana

Patient liaison officer

Is with you at every step of the process

Handles the paperwork and your bookings

Ekaterina, patient care specialist

Ekaterina

Patient liaison officer

Is with you at every step of the process

Handles the paperwork and your bookings

Maria, patient care specialist

Maria

Patient liaison officer

Is with you at every step of the process

Handles the paperwork and your bookings

Yulia, patient care specialist

Yulia

Patient liaison officer

Is with you at every step of the process

Handles the paperwork and your bookings

How it actually
happens

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A City Medical Centre patient story
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A City Medical Centre patient story
A City Medical Centre patient story
A City Medical Centre patient story

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Reviews

Patient reviews

  • ★★★★★
    Sang Tran
    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.

    Review on Google

  • ★★★★★
    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.

    Review on Google

  • ★★★★★
    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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What people ask

We answer 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.

City Medical Centre doctors

Yes. The clinic works with patients from other cities and countries, and an online consultation is available first.

FUE: $2,200 (≈ €2,000). DHI: $2,500 (≈ €2,250). Combined: $2,700 (≈ €2,450). A free consultation and graft count gives you the final, contract-fixed price with no hidden extras.

The surgery takes a single day, and you go home the same day.

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 isn't painful: local anaesthesia is used throughout the surgery.

In FUE, grafts are harvested with a tweezer, no cuts or stitches involved. In DHI, a Choi pen implants grafts without opening channels first. The combined method pairs FUE harvesting with DHI implantation.

The number of grafts is assessed for free by the doctor, based on how much donor hair you have.

Expect 0–10 days to heal, then normal shedding of transplanted hairs at 2–4 weeks. Growth begins around 3–4 months, density builds by 6–9 months, and the final look appears at 12–18 months.

A lifetime guarantee of hair growth is included, confirmed in your contract.

All of it can be checked
before you pay

The clinic holds a medical licence; care meets the standards and clinical guidelines

of Ministry of Health.

Diploma of a City Medical Centre doctor
Certificate of a City Medical Centre doctor

Proof of qualification for the doctors doing transplants

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AKC POMOSHCH LLC

the firm's legal entity

1057746096924

OGRN

7728536872

INN

What people from Madrid ask before the surgery

FUE and DHI suit a patient in Madrid: no cuts, no stitches, local anaesthesia only, and the operation is over in a single day. Graft survival runs 98-100 %, and a price from $2,200 (≈ €2,000) is fixed in the contract after a free graft count, so nothing is added later.

Nobody in Madrid pays for the first step. The consultation happens online, the doctor sees photos of the thinning area and gives the graft count from them. The clinic is reachable 24/7, which is a normal part of the day there.

Healing fits into 0-10 days, and at 2-4 weeks the transplanted hairs shed exactly as the protocol predicts. Growth begins at 3-4 months, density comes at 6-9 and the final result at 12-18. Check-ups at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months with photo tracking by a personal coordinator and a lifetime growth guarantee.

Hair Transplant in Madrid: price and what is included

Prices are in US dollars; the amount in brackets is an approximate conversion to EUR at the rate of 02.10.2026. The final price is fixed in your contract.

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Written by Anastasia A. Kolesnik, plastic surgeon, hair transplant doctor

Medically reviewed by Ellina V. Goncharova, dermatovenereologist, trichologist, surgeon. Review date:

Sources and further reading

  1. NHS — Hair transplant
  2. American Academy of Dermatology — Hair loss: hair transplants
  3. International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) — Treatments for hair loss
  4. PubMed / NCBI — Follicular Unit Extraction for Hair Transplantation: An Update (Actas Dermosifiliogr, 2017)
  5. PubMed / NCBI — Donor site healing in follicular unit extraction hair transplantation (Cell Mol Biol, 2025)

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Seven answers to collect in writing before any date is held

Madrid is a city of 3,477,497 people (2025 figure for the city itself), and the wider Community of Madrid counts 7,113,886 (2025) across 179 municipalities. With that many people looking for hair restoration and that many private centres to choose from, the best protection is paperwork rather than impressions. Before a date is reserved, ask for seven things in a single message and keep the replies in one folder.

First, the medical licence of the organisation that provides care. The City Medical Centre clinic holds one, and a patient may ask to see it. Second, the full name and specialty of the person who will carry out the transplant. Third, the credentials of every doctor who will take part: diplomas and certificates may be inspected before payment. Fourth, the contract for paid medical services, read in full and not summarised aloud. Fifth, the method that has been proposed and the reason it was chosen. Sixth, the graft count and the area it is meant to cover. Seventh, a list of what the arrangement includes, and of what it leaves out, with no figures needed at this stage.

Two further points separate a serious answer from a vague one. Ask who will examine you afterwards, and ask what is written down as opposed to what is only said. A reply that swaps the doctor you met for a different name deserves a follow-up.

A practical habit helps here: when a reply arrives by phone or by voice note, ask for the same content in a written message, then read it as a stranger would. Does it name a person, a method and a count, or does it only reassure? Mark every line that was spoken but never written, and send those lines back as questions.

Put the same seven questions to a second clinic and lay the two sets of replies next to each other. Where one reply is a document and the other is a reassurance, you have already learned something.

What the 2024 order and the Madrid medical college mean for a patient

Cosmetic surgery rules in Spain were rewritten not long ago. The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies reports that Order SND/1002/2024, issued by the Ministry of Health in September 2024, is meant to limit cosmetic surgery to professionals who finished a residency in plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery, or in a specialty with aesthetic competencies. The order speaks of cosmetic surgery in general, but it points to a fair question for any clinic: which specialty did this doctor complete, and where can I see it recorded?

The Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Médicos de Madrid, known as ICOMEM, is the professional body for the city's doctors. Its website offers a member finder, the Buscador de Colegiados, and a membership roll. Treat it as a check on a name you already hold. Take the name from the clinic, search it, and see whether what you find matches what you were told.

Spain also maintains national registers run by the Ministry of Health. In the Registro Estatal de Profesionales Sanitarios, citizens search by the name of a professional, a centre or a province and see official qualifications and the centres where the person works. The ministry says the register is still being completed, so the absence of a name does not by itself mean a lack of the right to practise. Use a missing entry as a reason to ask a question, not as a verdict.

Who pays? The same Observatory source places aesthetic interventions outside the benefits basket of the national health system and notes that private centres offering them have multiplied. A cosmetic transplant is therefore settled directly with the clinic, under a contract. If you suspect a medical reason behind the loss, take that to your own doctor first.

Pictures and sentences that let a surgeon answer you properly

Madrid residents begin with a message. The consultation is free and happens online, nothing is booked, and a coordinator replies on WhatsApp or Telegram at any hour, with a stated reply time of 15 minutes. To start, send a phone number and photographs of the thinning places; a doctor looks and says whether a transplant would help.

Make the photographs easy to read: daylight, dry hair, no flash, a plain wall behind you. Cover the top of the head, the front of the scalp, both temples, the back, and the areas from which grafts would be taken. An older picture in which your hair looked fuller shows the doctor what you are comparing against.

Under the pictures, write a short note. When did thinning begin? Has it been steady or sudden? Does it run in the family? What have you tried? Mention illnesses and medicines, and read the caution list in the last section before you hit send. Add one sentence about what you want: a denser front, coverage at the crown, or a beard or eyebrow instead of the scalp.

Photographs let the conversation start on day one, yet any graft figure drawn from them alone is provisional. The number that counts is the one the doctor gives at the consultation and fixes in the contract.

Keep a short list of questions beside the phone. Which of the three techniques suits my donor zone, and what would change that advice? How many grafts are likely, and where will they go? Who checks me afterwards, and how do I reach that person? Jot down each reply as it comes, with the date, and read the notes again the next morning before deciding anything.

What the weeks after the operation look like, in order

Match the clinic's method to your own donor zone: FUE uses forceps with no incisions and no stitches, DHI uses a Choi pen with no channels opened beforehand, and a combined protocol extracts by FUE and implants by DHI. Ask the doctor which of the three fits your donor zone and why.

One day, local anaesthesia, home the same evening. After that the clinic describes the road in stages: 0–10 days, 2–4 weeks, 3–4 months, 6–9 months and 12–18 months, with check-ups at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. Early shedding of the new hairs is expected. Ask for the care plan, hair-washing and headwear guidance and the return-to-sport plan to be named in the contract.

When a transplant is not the right step

No doctor gains by sending you into theatre needlessly, and the clinic says so. A transplant is considered for androgenetic or diffuse alopecia, bald areas and a receding front of the scalp.

The caution list is longer, and it reads like a medical history: cancer, epilepsy, diabetes mellitus, serious heart conditions, a pacemaker, pulmonary embolism, hepatitis B or C, AIDS or HIV and intolerance to anaesthetics on the health side; trichotillomania and body dysmorphic disorder on the psychological side; being under 18, insufficient hair density, genetic traits of hair growth, a high frontal line, patchy alopecia, damage from a burn or injury, and shedding after an illness or from hormonal imbalance.

If anything on the list applies to you, do not wait for the doctor to find it. Put it in the first message, and ask the coordinator to flag it for the surgeon who reviews your photographs. Honest disclosure at this stage saves a longer conversation later and keeps the plan realistic.

I live in Madrid. Can I begin without meeting anyone in person?

Yes. The first assessment is an online conversation: you send photographs and a phone number to the coordinator, a doctor reviews them, and nothing is booked at that stage. It is free.

Who in Madrid keeps a roll of doctors that I can search?

The Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Médicos de Madrid, ICOMEM, is the professional body for the city's doctors, and its website has a member finder and a membership roll. Nationally, the Ministry of Health runs a register of health professionals that citizens can search by name, centre or province.

Does a missing name in a Spanish register mean the doctor cannot practise?

Not necessarily. The Ministry of Health says its national register is still being completed, so absence alone does not show a lack of the right to practise. Ask the clinic to explain and to show the diplomas and certificates, which may be inspected before payment.

What did Order SND/1002/2024 change?

According to the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, the order, published by the Ministry of Health in September 2024, aims to restrict cosmetic surgery to professionals who completed a residency in plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery or in another specialty with aesthetic competencies. Ask your coordinator which specialty the doctor reviewing your case holds.

Will Spanish public health pay for a cosmetic hair transplant?

The Observatory describes aesthetic interventions as outside the benefits basket of the national health system. Plan on arranging the procedure directly with the clinic under a contract for paid medical services, and talk to your own doctor if you suspect a medical cause for your hair loss.

What should I ask for in writing before I reserve a date?

The medical licence, the name and specialty of the operating doctor, the doctors' credentials, the contract for paid medical services, the method and graft count proposed, and a list of what is included. Keep every reply with its date.