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City Medical Centre

Hair Transplant
in Nuremberg

FUE · DHI

from $2,200

Appraisal with a sum — $0.

True case

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

Before

a full 12 months

FUE, done without incisions or stitches. Grafts and forecast added up, nothing to pay — before you decide.

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

Hair transplant for patients from Nuremberg 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

Free online consultation on WhatsApp and Telegram

results

This is how it looks
8–12 months later

Cases shown are all real CMC patients.

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,800 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,500 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,600 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,000 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,700 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,300 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,900 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,500 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,400 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,500 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,100 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,600 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

4,000 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,200 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,000 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,700 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,700 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,800 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,300 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,800 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,500 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,900 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,500 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,800 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,900 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,600 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,600 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,700 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,700 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,200 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,000 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,800 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

4,000 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,400 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,900 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,100 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,600 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,300 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,900 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,500 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,700 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,800 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,200 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,000 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

2,800 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,100 grafts

FUE method

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

Before

a full 12 months

3,600 grafts

FUE method

Comparison

Hair transplant methods
FUE and DHI

Three graft transfer technologies are on the table: classic FUE, suture-free DHI and a combined protocol. Implantation technique, tissue trauma and graft survival are what you compare when choosing.

FUE

Classic technique without incisions or stitches

Hair transplant with the FUE method
Discount through end of November

$2,200

$2,700

Graft implantation technique

Forceps

Graft trauma

Minimal

A natural growth angle

Natural

Graft survival

98–100%

Suitable for

Androgenetic alopecia

DHI

Suture-free implantation with a Choi pen

Hair transplant with the DHI method
Discount through end of November

$2,500

$2,900

Graft implantation technique

DHI pen, Choi implanter

Graft trauma

Minimal

A natural growth angle

Natural

Graft survival

98–100%

Suitable for

Densification

Combined DHI/FUE

FUE for extraction, DHI implant

Combined DHI and FUE protocol
Discount through end of November

$2,700

$2,900

Graft implantation technique

FUE extraction, DHI implantation

Graft trauma

Minimal

A natural growth angle

Natural

Graft survival

98–100%

Suitable for

Densification for androgenetic alopecia

These survival and trauma figures are averages for each method, meant as a guide: exact numbers depend on the transplant area and the patient's individual features and are clarified by the doctor at consultation.

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What doctors know about hair transplants, and what patients lived through

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about the clinic

A place where you
will feel at ease

Up-to-date equipment, comfortable rooms, care for the patient

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

Speak to a coordinator in any of these

We will respond to your questions and set a convenient consultation time

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Some scalps simply cannot take it

If surgery is not the answer for you, you will hear it straight at the consultation — no money wasted. The situations in which a transplant genuinely helps are listed below.

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

Losses worth operating on

  • Androgenetic or diffuse alopecia
  • A receding hairline
  • A high hairline
  • Insufficient hair density
  • Hair growth's genetic features
  • Results of an injury or a burn
  • Shedding post-illness
  • Shedding from a hormonal imbalance

Do not know if you qualify yet?

Leave a way to reach you. A coordinator asks for photos of the thinning area in a messenger, 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
Tell me if this suits me

services

You learn the price
before the surgery

Pricing waits for the graft count. It is done at the free consultation and written into the contract.

Discount through end of November

FUE method

suture-free graft extraction

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

$2,200$2,700

Appraisal with a sum — $0.

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Discount through end of November

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

Appraisal with a sum — $0.

Pin your price
Discount through end of November

DHI+FUE combo method

combined technique

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

$2,700$2,900

Appraisal with a sum — $0.

Pin your price
Discount through end of November

More we offer

The doctor's first lookFree
Eyebrow transplant, FUE$1,700$1,600
Beard transplant, FUE$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 preparation before surgery to 12 months after.

Lifetime hair growth guarantee

No extras are slipped in on the day of surgery.

two other spots

Beard and eyebrow
transplants

Only the zone is different from a scalp case. Donor grafts from the back of the head, the FUE method, everything else identical.

Beard transplant

FUE method, no incisions or stitches

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

Grafts are taken from the donor area at the back of the head and moved through micro-punctures of about 1 mm — no scars are left. The doctor and you choose the shape before the operation, taking your facial features into account. Transplanted hair grows for life, and the beard can be trimmed and styled as usual.

$2,800$3,000

Appraisal with a sum — $0.

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Eyebrow transplant

FUE method, no incisions or stitches

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

The eyebrow shape comes from the surgeon at the initial consultation: you look through references together and the design accounts for your facial features. The hairs are implanted at the right angle, so the eyebrows look natural. It also helps where years of plucking stopped hair growth.

$1,600$1,700

a procedure you go home from, numbed locally

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Find the graft total and the cost

The doctor will weigh up your donor area, count the grafts and show the result achievable for you. The cost is quoted at the consultation and fixed in the contract.

Operating room at City Medical Centre

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Process

One day in the clinic —
and you go home

From consultation to going home — all in one day

The doctor's first look — hair transplant at City Medical Centre
1

The doctor's first look

Before anything else, there is a free consultation: the doctor explains FUE and DHI, answers your questions, and works out an individual plan for the surgery.

Fixing a day in theatre
2

Fixing a day in theatre

A deposit, paid by card at the clinic or transferred online, locks in the surgery date, and the arrangement is written into a medical services contract.

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

Just ahead of the procedure itself

This step is dedicated to pre-surgery preparation: completing the tests the clinic lists, following its instructions closely.

Local anaesthetic – a pain-free session — hair transplant at City Medical Centre
4

Local anaesthetic – a pain-free session

This step uses local anaesthesia to make sure the operation is completely painless.

One follicle at a time, they are removed — hair transplant at City Medical Centre
5

One follicle at a time, they are removed

Grafts come from the donor area — the back of the head or temples — collected in a way that avoids stitches entirely.

Planting out the units in the treated zone — hair transplant at City Medical Centre
6

Planting out the units in the treated zone

For patients in Nuremberg, this step means the surgeons implant the grafts into the balding zone.

Healing over the weeks that follow it — hair transplant at City Medical Centre
7

Healing over the weeks that follow it

The final step is recovery, backed by the clinic's supplies and full instructions for fast healing.

Healing after a hair transplant, 0-10 days
8

0-10 days — Rest phase

The crusts come off and the swelling goes down as the area recovers

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

2-4 weeks — Shedding of transplanted hair

This shedding is expected; the roots are not affected

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

3-4 months — First regrowth

Fresh growth comes through, and the change becomes visible

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

6-9 months — Fuller coverage

Density builds up and the main volume and the hairline show

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

12-18 months — Final stage

You get the final density and a natural hairline

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

A doctor's appointment at City Medical Centre

Free, before the operation, and you owe nothing.

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doctors

Our doctors

Kristina A. Tropina, assistant

Kristina A. Tropina

Assistant

9 years of experience

The doctor at your consultation is the one who operates.

The doctor will assess your donor area, count the grafts and say the result you can reach.

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coordinators

People you will meet

A coordinator is assigned to you and stays with you until you have recovered.

Svetlana, patient care specialist

Svetlana

Patient support lead

Will be there before and after the surgery

Manages all your documents and your slots

Ekaterina, patient care specialist

Ekaterina

Patient support lead

Will be there before and after the surgery

Manages all your documents and your slots

Maria, patient care specialist

Maria

Patient support lead

Will be there before and after the surgery

Manages all your documents and your slots

Yulia, patient care specialist

Yulia

Patient support lead

Will be there before and after the surgery

Manages all your documents and your slots

How it actually
happens

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A City Medical Centre patient story
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

    Review on Google

  • ★★★★★
    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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Asked all the time

We cover 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. City Medical Centre accepts patients from other cities and countries, and an online consultation is available before you decide.

Pricing starts from $2,200 (≈ €2,000) for FUE, $2,500 (≈ €2,250) for DHI, and $2,700 (≈ €2,450) 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.

The surgery is performed under local anaesthesia, so it's painless.

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.

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

You can check everything
before you pay

The clinic holds a medical licence, care is provided to the standards and clinical guidelines

of Ministry of Health.

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

Papers that show who is qualified to operate on you

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AKC POMOSHCH LLC

the clinic's legal name

1057746096924

OGRN

7728536872

INN

Nuremberg and a transplant that takes one day

Someone in Nuremberg needs no hospital stay for this: FUE and DHI go without cuts or stitches, under local anaesthesia, and the whole operation takes one day. Graft survival is 98-100 %, and a price from $2,200 (≈ €2,000) is set in the contract after a free graft count.

The photo does the work at the start for a patient in Nuremberg: it goes to the doctor, the online consultation is free, and the answer about whether a transplant helps comes back to you. Open 24/7.

You heal over 0-10 days. Later on, at 2-4 weeks, the transplanted hairs shed; it is normal and it undoes none of the work already done. Growth begins at 3-4 months, and what grows then is yours to keep.

Hair Transplant in Nuremberg: 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:

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Before you ask for a quote: the yes column and the no column

A hair transplant is marketed as a solution, yet the first honest question is whether your kind of hair loss belongs among the cases the operation can help. The clinic is direct about it: for many people another route is better, and the doctor says so during the consultation instead of sending anyone to surgery without a reason.

In favour of surgery: androgenetic or diffuse thinning, bald areas, a receding frontal zone. Against it, the list is longer and less obvious. It names psychiatric conditions (trichotillomania, body dysmorphic disorder), cancer and age under 18, then epilepsy, serious heart disease, diabetes and a pacemaker, then HIV, hepatitis B or C and pulmonary embolism, and finally intolerance to anaesthetics. Doctors also weigh insufficient hair density, genetic traits of growth, damage from a burn or injury, and shedding after an illness or from a hormonal imbalance. Patchy alopecia belongs to the cases where a transplant does not suit.

Print both lists and sit with a pen. Mark every line that might concern you, however remotely, and send the marked copy to your coordinator along with the question: which of these applies to me, and where will you write it down? An answer you can reread in a month is worth more than a reassuring sentence on a call.

Asking costs nothing and obliges you to nothing. The clinic wants a phone number, nothing more; the pictures of your thinning areas reach a coordinator via a messenger app, a doctor studies them, and the reply tells you if a transplant is worth considering. No booking follows from sending a photograph.

Write down your own three questions too, and write them before the call, not during it. Which exact diagnosis did the doctor assign to my thinning? What would you advise if I decided to wait a year? Which part of the plan depends on the graft count, and which part would change if the count turned out lower? Answers that come with reasons let you tell a consultation from a sales conversation.

Forceps, a pen, or both: three methods and one question for each

Three techniques are on offer, and each deserves its own question. In classic FUE the grafts are taken with forceps, with no incisions or stitches, and the hairs keep their natural angle. Ask the surgeon what makes this the right fit for your donor area.

DHI places each graft directly with a Choi pen, so the scalp is not first opened with channels. Ask what that changes in your density plan. The combined protocol harvests by FUE and implants by pen, and it is presented as a way to densify in androgenetic loss. Ask why it is, or is not, suggested for you.

Survival and trauma rates appear for each technique as averages, given only for orientation. Real figures depend on the treated area and on your own features, and the doctor spells them out in the consultation. Request your personal numbers in writing and do not rely on averages.

One more fact sits beside the method: the person who examines you at the consultation is the person holding the instruments. That doctor reads the donor zone, settles the graft count and explains what is realistic. The surgery takes one day under local anaesthesia, after which you go home.

The American Academy of Dermatology adds some history worth knowing: most surgeons now transplant healthy hairs a few at a time, which ended the doll-like look of the hair plugs placed in the 1970s and 1980s. Ask the surgeon to describe, in plain words, how the grafts will be placed in your plan and why.

A price on paper and a folder that outlives the year

Start with the number. It is set at the free consultation, once the grafts have been counted, and then written into the contract. Request it as a line of text placed beside the method and the graft count, so that nothing about the figure rests on a phone call you cannot reread. The agreed sum stands on the day of surgery; if you choose them, their terms deserve a separate line.

Go through the list of inclusions as a checklist and put a question beside every line you cannot find in the contract: dressings and healing checks, the care plan for both areas, advice on washing, sleep and headwear, the return to sport, photo exchange with a named coordinator, and the five check-ups.

Then comes timing. A surgery date is held once a deposit is paid, by card at the clinic or online, and the conditions are entered in a medical services contract.

Keep one folder for everything that reaches you: the quote, the contract, the list of tests with the instructions for completing them, the dates of the checks and the coordinator's contact. When something is unclear in month five, the answer will be sitting in a place you chose yourself.

The year after the operation, read stage by stage

Most worry in the first months comes from not knowing what is normal, and a timetable removes much of it. The first ten days belong to healing: crusts shed and swelling goes down. During weeks 2 to 4 the transplanted hairs fall out, which is expected, because the follicles stay in place.

New hairs begin to show in months 3 to 4. By months 6 to 9 the area gains thickness and its outline becomes visible, and the finished result, with full volume and a natural edge, arrives between months 12 and 18. Read these as ranges, not as a promise for one particular day.

Treat the check-ups as anchors: months 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12. Ahead of each one, photograph the same areas under similar light and pass the set to your coordinator, who stays in touch from the first enquiry until recovery is over and goes on exchanging photographs as things change.

For everyday matters the clinic gives instructions on washing the hair, sleeping and headgear, and a plan for returning to sport. Ask for them in writing at the first consultation. Coordinators reply round the clock on WhatsApp and Telegram.

A short diary helps more than memory. After each check-up note the date, what the doctor said and the one question you forgot to ask. At month five or month eight you will have a written timeline to compare with the stages above.

Who counts as a candidate, and what to ask about the surgeon

The American Academy of Dermatology names two conditions for a candidate: enough healthy hair on the scalp that can be moved, and the ability to grow hair in the thinning area. It says the outcome depends largely on the surgeon, who should understand hair loss and perform transplants regularly. It also describes what a candidacy check may involve: a thorough scalp exam, sometimes a blood test to look for causes inside the body, and in some cases a scalp biopsy. Its goal is honest: a full head of hair may be unrealistic, while a fuller head of hair can be the target. Bring that sentence to your consultation and ask what 'fuller' would mean for your own photographs.

The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, a non-profit medical association with more than 1,100 members in 70 countries, publishes patient information on hair loss treatments. Read it before the call.

Before paying, you are entitled to look at the paperwork: the clinic holds a medical licence, and the doctors' diplomas and certificates are available for inspection. Write down the licence number, the legal entity behind the medical services and the doctors' names, and file them with your contract.

Nuremberg had 531,159 residents on 31 December 2025. For each of them the route into a consultation is identical: a phone number, a few photographs sent in a messenger and a doctor's reply on whether a transplant would help.

Which photographs should I send first?

Pictures of the areas where hair has thinned. Your coordinator will tell you which angles the doctor needs.

Can I learn whether I am a candidate before paying anything?

Yes. Your photographs go through a coordinator to a doctor, who tells you whether a transplant would help. The first online conversation costs nothing.

Which documents can I look at before paying?

The licence, and the diplomas and certificates of the doctors. Ask also for the licence number and the name of the legal entity that provides the services.

Who will be in the operating room?

The doctor from your consultation. That doctor examines the donor zone, counts the grafts and explains which outcome is achievable.

What should a complete contract contain?

The method, the graft count, the sum, the list of inclusions, the dates of the check-ups and the name of your coordinator.

My hair is falling out in the third week. Is that a problem?

Weeks 2 to 4 are the stage of normal shedding, while the follicles stay put. You can send a photograph to your coordinator as things change.

What does the American Academy of Dermatology say makes someone a candidate?

Enough healthy hair on the scalp to be transplanted, and the ability to grow hair in the thinning area. It adds that the outcome depends largely on the surgeon.