Hair transplant (hair restoration) in Sarajevo: price and key facts
Hair transplant for patients from Sarajevo at City Medical Centre starts at BAM 3,850 (from $2,200). The first online consultation is free; the doctor names the final price and it is fixed in the contract.
Price
BAM 3,850 (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.
Our work relies on three graft transfer technologies: classic FUE, suture-free DHI and a combined protocol. Compare implantation technique, tissue trauma and graft survival, then choose knowingly.
FUE
Classic method requiring no cuts or sutures
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
Stitch-free implantation with a Choi pen
Discount through November's end
$2,500
$2,900
Graft implantation technique
DHI pen (Choi implanter)
Graft trauma
Minimal
Hair's natural angle
Natural
Graft survival
98–100%
Suitable for
Densification
Combined DHI/FUE
Extraction by FUE, 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
The numbers for survival and trauma are averaged for each method and given as a guide: exact values depend on the transplant area and the patient's individual features and are clarified by the doctor at consultation.
Where the goal can be reached without an operation, that is what you hear during the consultation, with your money left untouched. Below are the situations in which a transplant is genuinely justified.
Who stands to benefit
Androgenetic or diffuse alopecia
A receding hairline
Contraindications
Trichotillomania
Body dysmorphic disorder
Cancer
Under 18 years of age
A high hairline
Insufficient hair density
Genetic factors of hair growth
Effects left by an injury or burn
Hair loss post-illness
Hair loss from hormonal imbalance
Intolerance to anaesthetics
Epilepsy
Serious heart conditions
Diabetes mellitus
A pacemaker
AIDS/HIV, Hepatitis B/C
Pulmonary embolism (PE)
Patchy alopecia
Find it hard to judge your own?
Leave a number and the coordinator will ask for photos of the thinning area in a messenger; a doctor examines them and tells you honestly whether a transplant would help. Free, nothing booked.
From the run-up to surgery to 12 months of follow-up.
Lifelong growth, guaranteed
Every wound dressing and healing check-up
A schedule of care for donor and transplant sites
You learn how to wash, how to sleep, what to wear on your head
A plan for returning to sport and for hair care
Your own coordinator to write to, and photo updates as it grows
Growth checks at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months
Nobody hands you a new invoice on surgery day.
two more patches
Beard and eyebrow transplants
Beyond the scalp too: the same grafts from the back of the head, the same FUE method — only the area changes.
Beard transplant
FUE method, no cuts or stitches
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.
The surgeon draws the eyebrow shape right at the initial consultation: you look through references together and the design takes your facial features into account. Hairs are implanted at the right angle, so the eyebrows look natural. It also helps when years of plucking stopped the growth.
At this first meeting, the doctor walks you through both the FUE and DHI methods, addresses any questions you have, and designs a surgical plan built around your case — at no cost.
2
Deciding when it happens
Patients in Sarajevo can reserve their surgery date with a deposit paid by card at the clinic or online, formalized through a medical services contract.
3
Getting ready for the procedure
This step ensures you're ready for surgery: the clinic supplies a list of required tests and clear instructions for completing them.
4
The injections – and then nothing hurts
Thanks to local anaesthesia, the entire operation is carried out without pain.
5
Harvesting the grafts
Grafts are harvested from the donor area at the back of the head or the temples, without any stitches.
6
Moving the grafts across to the bald section
At this point, the grafts are implanted into the balding area by the surgical team.
7
Once the swelling and the scabs have gone
Everything you need for recovery, plus complete instructions, comes from the clinic at this final stage.
8
0-10 days — Early days
The crusts fall off, the swelling reduces, the area slowly recovers
9
2-4 weeks — Transplanted hairs now shed
The visible hair goes, the root underneath is untouched
10
3-4 months — Growing again
Growth is underway and the difference can be seen
11
6-9 months — Noticeable cover
The hair grows stronger, the main volume and shape show
12
12-18 months — Final picture
The final density and a natural hairline form
At the consultation you hear your graft figure and exactly what the operation will involve
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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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.
Yes — City Medical Centre regularly treats patients from other cities and countries, starting with an online consultation.
FUE is $2,200 (≈ BAM 3,850), DHI is $2,500 (≈ BAM 4,350), combined DHI+FUE is $2,700 (≈ BAM 4,700). A free consultation with a graft count gives you the exact, contract-fixed price.
The whole operation is completed in one day, with no overnight stay needed.
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.
FUE is the classic method: grafts are harvested with tweezers, with no cuts or stitches. DHI implants grafts without channels, using a Choi pen. A combined method harvests grafts by FUE and implants them with the DHI pen.
A doctor determines the graft number at a free consultation, looking at your donor area's capacity.
Healing runs 0–10 days, followed by normal hair shedding at 2–4 weeks. Growth kicks in at 3–4 months, thickens by 6–9 months, and reaches its final result at 12–18 months.
A contract-backed, lifetime guarantee of hair growth comes with every procedure.
All of it can be checked before you pay
The clinic works under a medical licence, care is provided to the standards and clinical guidelines
per Ministry of Health.
Diplomas you can read before the operation is agreed
Look at the documents
AKC POMOSHCH LLC
our clinic's legal entity
1057746096924
OGRN
7728536872
INN
Why a hair transplant makes sense for Sarajevo
For a patient from Sarajevo the procedure is one day long: FUE and DHI use no scalpel cuts and no stitches, only local anaesthesia. Graft survival is 98-100 %, and a price from $2,200 (≈ BAM 3,850) is fixed in the contract once the free graft count has been done.
The first conversation for a resident of Sarajevo is free and takes place online: the doctor looks at photos of the thinning area and counts the grafts. Every day the clinic is reachable 24/7, so you choose the hour, not the clinic.
Recovery is measured in 0-10 days, after which the calendar matters more than the mirror: at 2-4 weeks the transplanted hairs shed, which is normal, and only at 3-4 months does growth get going.
Hair Transplant in Sarajevo: price and what is included
Prices are in US dollars; the amount in brackets is an approximate conversion to BAM at the rate of 02.10.2026. The final price is fixed in your contract.
Who registers a doctor in the Federation, who inspects a facility, and what insurance covers
Sarajevo had 275,524 residents in the 2013 census, and Sarajevo Canton, of which it is the capital, had 413,593. The canton sits inside the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the two entities of a country that counted 3,531,159 people in that same census. The administrative layers matter to you for one practical reason: they decide who keeps the lists you can consult before agreeing to a hair transplant.
According to Radio Free Europe (15 November 2021), work permits and the inspection of private health institutions are the responsibility of the canton, while the Medical Chamber of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina handles the registration of doctors and their temporary work licences. In that year two inspectors in Sarajevo Canton carried out 444 inspections. So two separate questions can be put to any provider: is the facility permitted to work, and is the named surgeon registered?
The Law on Health Insurance, one of two laws that came out of the Federation Health Program of 1994, insures each person a basic health care package. Whether an elective hair procedure belongs to that package is something to ask your insurer directly, and to keep the reply on paper. Until you hold that confirmation, do not assume the package includes an elective transplant.
Each of these questions can be asked from home. Our coordinators answer in WhatsApp or Telegram day and night, and the opening review is free and binds you to nothing.
A paper trail worth requesting before you say yes
Keep your requests short and numbered so that nothing slips through. Ask for the medical licence of the organisation providing care, with its number. Ask for the full name of the doctor who will extract and place your grafts, together with diplomas and certificates. Ask for the draft contract for medical services, and read how it describes what is included.
The package for hair work is spelled out: bandages and checks while the scalp heals, a care routine for the grafted zone and the donor zone, advice on washing hair, sleeping and covering the head, a schedule for sport and hair care, a coordinator who looks at the photographs you send as things change, and five check-ups across the first year, at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. Copy this list into your request and ask to find every line inside the contract.
Then compare two opinions. A second assessment of the same photographs, from a doctor who gains nothing from your decision, is cheap insurance against an inflated graft count. If the two numbers differ widely, ask each side to explain the donor-area reasoning behind theirs.
One more sentence is worth having in writing: the doctor who sees you at the consultation is the same doctor who operates.
Forceps, pen or both: how the methods differ in practice
The clinic uses three routes. FUE lifts grafts out of the donor area without incisions or stitches, using forceps, and the hair keeps the angle at which it grew. DHI places grafts directly with a Choi pen, so the step of opening channels is skipped. The combined route lifts by FUE and places by DHI.
FUE goes with minimal graft trauma and fits androgenetic alopecia; the combined route is for densification. Survival and trauma values are only averages for orientation. They shift with the treated zone and with your individual features, and at the consultation the doctor sets out your own numbers.
Which of the three suits you cannot be decided from a catalogue. Ask the doctor to explain, in your own file, why the chosen method fits the pattern of thinning in your photographs, and to name the donor zone: the back of the head or the temples, both reached with a scarless technique.
Beard and eyebrow work rests on the same extraction. The donor area is the back of the head, grafts go in through tiny punctures of roughly one millimetre, and only the receiving zone differs. Mention such a wish in your first message, and one plan can cover every area.
The candid list: who benefits, who is turned away
A transplant is not for everybody, and the doctor says so openly. It makes sense for androgenetic or diffuse alopecia, for bald areas, and for a receding front of the scalp. It does not make sense, or must wait, with trichotillomania, body dysmorphic disorder, cancer, age under 18, insufficient hair density, or shedding that follows an illness or a hormonal imbalance. Medical contraindications include intolerance to anaesthetics, epilepsy, serious heart conditions, diabetes mellitus, a pacemaker, AIDS/HIV, hepatitis B or C, and pulmonary embolism.
Patchy alopecia is also counted among the cases that do not fit. If any of this describes you, put it in the first message; the coordinator passes it to the doctor, and a wasted week is avoided. Keep the doctor's opinion on your case as a written note.
Photographs, questions and the long road to final density
A phone number is all that is asked at the start. A coordinator then requests photographs of the thinning places through a messenger, a doctor goes through them, and you hear whether a transplant would help. No booking is made and no charge appears.
Photograph in even light and at the same distance each time: front, each temple, crown, and the back of the head where the donor zone lies. Add how long the thinning has been under way, your regular medicines, and any condition from the lists above. Before the conversation, put your biggest worry on paper.
Good questions for the reply: how many grafts does the donor zone realistically allow, which method is proposed and why, what tests are needed first, and where does each stage appear in the contract? The clinic lists the exact tests before the operation and gives instructions for completing them.
Holding a date takes a deposit by card or online, and the terms land in the medical services contract; the total agreed stays as agreed on the day of the operation. Read that clause twice.
The operation itself fits into one day, under local anaesthesia. What follows is a long, slow schedule, and it helps to have it on your phone from the first day.
In the first ten days scabs drop off and swelling goes down. Weeks two to four bring the shedding of the new hairs, a normal stage, while the follicles stay put. New growth begins around months three to four, thickness returns between months six and nine, and months twelve to eighteen deliver the full volume and a natural edge.
Photograph the same angles before each of the five check-ups and send them to your coordinator, so that the doctor sets like beside like.
Which body keeps the list of registered doctors for the Federation?
Radio Free Europe describes the Medical Chamber of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the body handling doctors' registration and temporary work licences. Ask the clinic for the surgeon's full name and check how it appears there.
Who is responsible for inspecting a private health facility in Sarajevo Canton?
Per the same report, work permits and the inspection of private health institutions are the canton's responsibility. Ask any provider to show its licence and quote its number.
What belongs in my written request before I send a deposit?
The licence and its number, the surgeon's name with certificates, the draft contract, and the inclusions: bandages, healing checks, the care routine, and five check-ups across the first year.
Can a second doctor review my photographs?
Yes, and it is a sensible step. Send the same set of pictures to another specialist and compare the graft estimate, the proposed method and the reasoning about the donor zone. Differences are a reason to ask questions.
Does my first message need to include medical history?
A short line is enough: how long you have noticed thinning, regular medicines, and any item from the contraindication list, such as diabetes, epilepsy, a pacemaker or a serious heart condition. The doctor reads it together with your photographs.
Will the doctor who assesses my case also operate?
Yes. At the consultation the doctor studies the donor zone, arrives at a graft count and describes the achievable outcome, and the same doctor is in the operating room. The consultation is free and carries no obligation.
What guidance do I receive for the weeks after surgery?
A care plan for the grafted and donor zones, instructions for washing, sleep and headwear, and a schedule for returning to sport. Your personal coordinator stays reachable, and photographs can be sent whenever something changes.
Forceps
Minimal
