Hair transplant (hair restoration) in Singapore: price and key facts
Hair transplant for patients from Singapore at City Medical Centre starts at S$2,850 (from $2,200). The first online consultation is free; the doctor names the final price and it is fixed in the contract.
Price
S$2,850 (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.
The clinic works with three graft transfer technologies: classic FUE, suture-free DHI and a combined protocol. Implantation technique, tissue trauma and graft survival differ, so compare before choosing.
FUE
Classic technique without incisions or stitches
Discount through end of November
$2,200
$2,700
Graft implantation technique
Forceps
Graft trauma
Minimal
Natural hair growth angle
Natural
Graft survival
98–100%
Suitable for
Androgenetic alopecia
DHI
Implantation with a Choi pen, no sutures
Discount through end of November
$2,500
$2,900
Graft implantation technique
DHI, a Choi implanter
Graft trauma
Minimal
Natural hair growth angle
Natural
Graft survival
98–100%
Suitable for
Densification
Combined DHI/FUE
FUE extraction, DHI pen implant
Discount through end of November
$2,700
$2,900
Graft implantation technique
FUE extraction with DHI implant
Graft trauma
Minimal
Natural hair growth 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.
If an operation is not needed for your case, the doctor will say so right at the consultation — and you will not waste your money. Below are the conditions where a transplant works.
Where a transplant helps
Androgenetic or diffuse alopecia
Bald spots and 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
Consequences of an injury or a burn
Hair loss from 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
Not sure which group you are in?
Your number is enough: a coordinator asks for photos, the doctor says if a transplant helps. Free, no booking.
From preparation for the operation to 12 months after.
Growth guarantee, lifelong
Instalments available
Every dressing and healing check needed
A care plan for the grafted area and donor area
Guidance on hair washing, on sleep and on headwear
A hair care plan and a return to sport plan
A personal coordinator you can reach and progress tracked by photo
Check-up visits at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months
Nothing more to pay on the day of surgery.
two more areas
Beard and eyebrow transplants
A hair transplant is more than the scalp. The same grafts from the back of the head, the same FUE method — only the area changes.
Beard transplant
FUE, no incisions and no stitches
The donor area at the back of the head supplies the grafts, placed through micro-punctures of about 1 mm with no scars left. Before the operation the doctor and you discuss the shape, 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 at the first consultation: you look through references together and the design takes your facial features into account. Each hair is implanted at the right angle, so the eyebrows look natural. It also helps where hairs stopped growing after years of plucking.
Comfortable rooms, modern equipment and care for every patient
1
Initial consultation
At the very first step, the doctor explains FUE and DHI free of charge, answers whatever questions you bring, and prepares a surgical plan designed around you.
2
Setting the surgery date
To reserve your surgery date, a deposit is made — by card at the clinic or online — and the agreement is formalized in a medical services contract.
3
Getting ready for the transplant
Patients in Singapore prepare for the transplant by completing a set of pre-surgery tests, using the list and instructions the clinic provides.
4
Anaesthesia — a pain-free transplant
Local anaesthesia is given ahead of the procedure, so it remains pain-free throughout.
5
Collecting grafts for the hair transplant
The surgeon takes grafts from the donor area, either the back of the head or the temples, leaving no stitches behind.
6
Placing grafts into the balding area
Surgeons carefully implant the grafts into the balding zone.
7
Recovery after the transplant procedure
This step closes the process with recovery, backed by the clinic's supplies and complete instructions for fast healing.
8
0-10 days — Heal
The crusts come off, swelling decreases, the area gradually recovers
9
2-4 weeks — Shedding of hair from grafts
A normal stage. The hairs fall out, but the follicles stay in place
10
3-4 months — Growth begins
New hairs surface gradually, the result shows
11
6-9 months — Density visible
Hair thickens, and the main volume and contour become visible
12
12-18 months — Results set
Natural hairline and final density take their shape
At the consultation the doctor will work out how many grafts you personally need, and explain how the transplant will go
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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Frequent questions
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 accepts patients from other cities and countries, and an online consultation is available before you decide.
The base prices are $2,200 (≈ S$2,850) (FUE), $2,500 (≈ S$3,200) (DHI) and $2,700 (≈ S$3,500) (combined). The precise cost is determined at a free consultation and graft count, then fixed in your contract.
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's a painless procedure, carried out under local anaesthesia.
FUE means tweezer-based, incision-free graft harvesting. DHI means channel-free implantation with a Choi pen. Combined DHI+FUE uses FUE for harvesting and the DHI pen for implanting.
The doctor calculates the exact number of grafts at a free consultation, based on your donor area.
First comes 0–10 days of healing, then shedding at 2–4 weeks (a normal stage). Growth starts at 3–4 months, density is clear by 6–9 months, and the final outcome shows at 12–18 months.
A lifetime guarantee of hair growth is included, confirmed in your contract.
It can all be checked before you pay
Care is provided under a medical licence, to the standards and clinical guidelines
under Ministry of Health.
Diplomas and certificates of those who will operate
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AKC POMOSHCH LLC
the clinic's legal name
1057746096924
OGRN
7728536872
INN
Residents of Singapore: the procedure explained simply
A resident of Singapore can plan around a single day: FUE and DHI leave no cuts and no stitches and are done under local anaesthesia. Graft survival stands at 98-100 %, while a price from $2,200 (≈ S$2,850) is fixed in the contract after the free counting of grafts.
If you are in Singapore, the first step is a free online consultation: photographs of the thinning area go to the doctor, who looks at them and counts the grafts. Daily contact is open 24/7, so nothing depends on a lucky moment.
After the operation: 0-10 days to heal, 2-4 weeks until the transplanted hairs shed, which is a normal phase, 3-4 months to the start of growth, 6-9 to real density and 12-18 to the final result. Check-ups at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months, photos with a personal coordinator, lifetime growth guarantee.
Hair Transplant in Singapore: price and what is included
Prices are in US dollars; the amount in brackets is an approximate conversion to SGD at the rate of 02.10.2026. The final price is fixed in your contract.
Singapore's sun and rain, and the weeks your grafts need
Singapore sits almost exactly on the equator, so the sun is intense and nearly directly overhead for most of the year. The Meteorological Service's own figures put daytime highs around 31-33°C with relative humidity averaging close to 82%, and UV levels stay high even under light cloud cover.
It's also a small, densely built city of roughly 5.64 million people, which in practice means the hairline consultation, the grafting session itself and each of the scheduled check-ups all sit close together — nobody has to build a case around long gaps between visits the way a more spread-out country might require.
In the first weeks after a transplant, the treated area is more sensitive to UV and to sweat than the donor area at the back of the head, so sun exposure and heavy sweating are both worth managing with some care. A wide-brim hat rather than a fitted cap is the usual advice until the scalp has settled, since tight headwear can rub against fresh grafts. The clinic's own check-ups at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months track how the grafts are taking, and the growth itself runs on its own slow schedule — new hairs only start surfacing at 3-4 months, with real density visible around 6-9 months and the final result taking shape at 12-18 months — so patience over that longer stretch matters far more than anything the local weather does.
Singapore's wetter Northeast Monsoon runs roughly from December to early March, and the Southwest Monsoon from June to September; neither stops daily life, but short, sudden downpours are common throughout the year. Carrying a light rain layer to protect a freshly treated scalp on the way home after the procedure is a reasonable precaution whichever month you choose.
What MediSave does and doesn't pay for
MediSave, Singapore's national medical savings scheme, is built around hospitalisation costs, chronic-disease treatment and a defined list of approved outpatient care at accredited institutions. The Ministry of Health's own description of MediSave coverage doesn't list cosmetic or aesthetic procedures, and a hair transplant for androgenetic or pattern hair loss is treated as elective and cosmetic rather than medically necessary, so patients should plan to pay for it directly rather than assume MediSave or MediShield Life will contribute.
If you're unsure how a particular case would be classified, MOH's own enquiry channels are the authoritative place to ask, not a clinic's marketing material, and it's worth settling that before a graft count and a surgery date are fixed.
Checking the clinic's own licence
Clinics offering procedures like hair transplantation have to hold a licence under Singapore's Healthcare Services Act, with the Ministry of Health currently running the licensing, inspection and enforcement side of that framework. Asking a clinic which licence it holds, and under which body, is a fair question before you commit to anything.
That licence covers the facility itself; it says nothing about the individual surgeon doing the extraction and implantation, which is a separate question worth raising in your very first message to a clinic, before any grafts are counted or a date is booked. Keeping the two checks apart matters because a licensed building and a properly registered surgeon speak to two different things — they're separate pieces of paperwork answering separate questions, and neither one on its own tells you much about the other.
A small, multicultural city built on dense housing, not sprawl
Singapore became fully independent in 1965, and over the following decades turned roughly 734 square kilometres of land, much of it expanded by reclamation, into one of the most densely built economies anywhere, according to the Department of Statistics Singapore. Around four in five residents live in public housing blocks built by the Housing & Development Board, typically within walking distance of an MRT station, a hawker centre and a cluster of clinics — a layout that in practice means getting to a hairline consultation, the procedure day and a follow-up visit rarely involves a long journey.
The city's population is also unusually mixed by ethnicity and by nationality, with a large share of residents born outside Singapore and multiple official languages in daily use. A clinic serving this population is used to patients comparing notes about hair loss across very different hair textures and donor-area densities, rather than treating one hair type as the default case.
Who is actually allowed to call themselves a hair transplant surgeon
Singapore does not reserve a separate, protected title specifically for "hair transplant surgeon": what the Singapore Medical Council register shows is a doctor's basic registration, plus any specialist accreditation they hold, such as in plastic surgery or dermatology. A doctor can legally perform hair restoration procedures with only general registration, which is exactly why checking the register yourself, rather than trusting a clinic's own description of a doctor's background, matters more here than in fields with a single, unambiguous specialist title.
At the first consultation it's reasonable to ask directly whether the doctor doing the extraction and implantation holds any additional accreditation beyond basic registration, how many procedures of this kind they have personally performed, and who specifically — not just which clinic — is responsible for the donor-area assessment that decides how many grafts are realistic.
That gap between "registered" and "specialised" isn't unique to hair restoration, but it matters more here because the visible, permanent outcome of a poor graft placement is harder to correct than many other cosmetic procedures, so the extra five minutes spent checking a doctor's actual track record before committing to a graft count is rarely wasted time.
Will the monsoon season affect my recovery?
Not meaningfully — rain and humidity don't slow healing, but a light rain layer for the first short walks after surgery is sensible, and keeping direct sun off the scalp for the first couple of weeks matters more than any rain does.
Does insurance or MediSave cover a hair transplant in Singapore?
Generally no: MediSave's published coverage centres on hospitalisation and chronic-disease care, and a transplant for pattern hair loss is treated as cosmetic, so it's usually a direct, out-of-pocket cost.
Can I get an initial assessment without visiting in person first?
Yes — send photos of your hairline and donor area to the clinic's coordinators on Telegram or WhatsApp, available around the clock, for an initial read before you book an in-person consultation.
How do I know the clinic and surgeon are properly licensed?
Ask which licence the clinic holds under the Healthcare Services Act, and separately check that the surgeon performing the procedure is registered with the Singapore Medical Council — two different checks worth doing before you commit.
Is there a separate licence just for hair transplant surgeons in Singapore?
No — the Singapore Medical Council register shows a doctor's general registration and any specialist accreditation they hold, but there isn't a distinct licence specifically for hair restoration, so asking about a doctor's specific training and case volume at the consultation fills in what the register alone doesn't show.
What's the real difference between FUE and DHI?
FUE extracts grafts with forceps and leaves no stitches, while DHI implants each graft directly with a pen-style tool without first creating a channel; a combined protocol uses FUE for extraction and the DHI pen for implantation. Which one suits a given case is decided at the consultation based on the donor area and the pattern of hair loss.
Does Singapore's heat make the scalp harder to care for after the procedure?
The main precaution is sun and sweat rather than heat as such: the treated area is more sensitive to UV and perspiration in the first weeks, so a wide-brim hat and some care around heavy sweating are the usual advice until the scalp has settled.
Can several hair-loss areas, like a receding hairline and a thinning crown, be treated in one visit?
That depends on the donor area's capacity, which is exactly what the surgeon assesses at the free consultation before counting grafts; it's a case-by-case decision rather than a fixed rule.
Why does the donor area matter so much to the final plan?
The donor area at the back and sides of the head supplies every graft used, so its density and the total number of healthy follicles there set a hard ceiling on how much can realistically be transplanted — which is why the surgeon examines it closely before giving any graft count, rather than quoting a number from a photo alone.
Forceps
Minimal
