Hair transplant (hair restoration) in Zagreb: price and key facts
Hair transplant for patients from Zagreb 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.
Three graft transfer technologies are in use here: classic FUE, suture-free DHI and a combined protocol. Weigh the implantation technique, tissue trauma and graft survival, and choose your method knowingly.
FUE
Classic technique without incisions or stitches
Discount until the end of November
$2,200
$2,700
Graft implantation technique
Forceps
Graft trauma
Minimal
Hair's natural angle
Natural
Graft survival
98–100%
Suitable for
Androgenetic alopecia
DHI
No-stitch implantation with a Choi pen
Discount until the end of November
$2,500
$2,900
Graft implantation technique
DHI, a Choi implanter
Graft trauma
Minimal
Hair's natural angle
Natural
Graft survival
98–100%
Suitable for
Densification
Combined DHI/FUE
FUE extraction, DHI pen implantation
Discount until the end of November
$2,700
$2,900
Graft implantation technique
FUE extraction plus DHI implant
Graft trauma
Minimal
Hair's natural angle
Natural
Graft survival
98–100%
Suitable for
Densification for androgenetic alopecia
Survival and trauma figures come as method averages, as a reference point: the exact numbers depend on the transplant area and the patient's individual features, and the doctor clarifies them at consultation.
If your case can be solved without surgery, the doctor will tell you right at the consultation — and you will not waste your money. Below are the cases in which a transplant works.
Situations that fit it
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
Damage caused by a burn or injury
Shedding post-illness
Shedding from a hormonal imbalance
Intolerance to anaesthetics
Epilepsy
Serious heart conditions
Diabetes mellitus
A pacemaker
AIDS/HIV, Hepatitis B/C
Pulmonary embolism (PE)
Patchy alopecia
Torn about which one fits you?
Leave a number. Photos go to a coordinator in a messenger, the doctor answers whether a transplant helps. Free, no booking.
Contact with a personal coordinator, progress followed by photo
Examinations at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months
Nobody hands you a new invoice on surgery day.
two areas more
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
The FUE method, no incisions used
The grafts come from the donor area at the back of the head and go in through micro-punctures of about 1 mm, leaving no scars. Before the operation the doctor discusses the shape with you and takes your facial features into account. Transplanted hair grows for life: trim and style the beard as usual.
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 at the natural growth angle, so the brows never look drawn on. It also helps brows that stopped growing after years of plucking.
A check of the donor zone, a graft number, and a frank answer about the outcome. The price you are quoted at the consultation is the price in the contract.
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This first step, offered free of charge, is where the doctor explains FUE and DHI, answers your questions, and drafts an individual plan for the operation.
2
Pinning down the timing
This step confirms the date through a deposit paid by card at the clinic or online, with the arrangement recorded in a medical services contract.
3
Getting ready for the procedure
This stage is about completing the pre-operative tests, for which the clinic gives you a clear list and step-by-step instructions.
4
Anaesthetic first – discomfort is gone
The surgery proceeds under local anaesthesia, ensuring a painless experience for the patient.
5
Freeing each follicle from the donor scalp
This stage extracts grafts from the back of the head or the temples using a technique that requires no stitches.
6
Putting grafts where they are needed most
During this stage of surgery the grafts are implanted into the balding area.
7
Healing over the weeks that follow it
The clinic equips you with all the necessary supplies and full instructions for a smooth, fast recovery.
8
0-10 days — Settling
Scabs disappear, the swelling goes down, the skin returns to normal
9
2-4 weeks — Shedding of transplanted hairs
Expected shedding. The roots hold firm, only the shafts fall out
10
3-4 months — First sprouts
Bit by bit the hair returns and the change shows up
11
6-9 months — Thicker on top
The hair gains body, and the volume and hairline become clear
12
12-18 months — Settled look
Full thickness shows, with a front line that looks your own
At the consultation the doctor calculates how many grafts you personally need and explains how the transplant goes
Free, before surgery and with no obligation at all.
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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Queries we hear
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.
Yes. The clinic works with patients from other cities and countries, and an online consultation is available first.
Prices start at $2,200 (≈ €2,000) for FUE, $2,500 (≈ €2,250) for DHI, and $2,700 (≈ €2,450) for the combined method. Your final price is set after a free graft count and locked into the contract.
It takes just one day from start to finish, and you're free to go home afterward.
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.
With FUE, grafts are taken by tweezer with no incisions. With DHI, grafts are implanted directly using a Choi pen, without pre-made channels. The combined method mixes FUE harvesting with DHI implantation.
The number of grafts is assessed for free by the doctor, based on how much donor hair you have.
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.
Hair growth is covered by a lifetime guarantee, fixed in the signed contract.
Everything can be checked before you pay
The clinic runs on a medical licence, care follows the standards and clinical guidelines
under Ministry of Health.
Diplomas and certificates of the doctors who will operate
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Hair transplant seen from Zagreb: the short version
The choice for a patient in Zagreb lies between FUE and DHI, and either way the scalp is not cut, nothing has to be stitched, only local anaesthesia is used, and one day is all the operation takes.
The start costs nothing in Zagreb: a free online consultation where the doctor sees photos of the thinning area and gives a graft count. The clinic is on the line 24/7, so you can write during a break rather than at night.
Expect healing inside 0-10 days. The transplanted hairs shed at 2-4 weeks, which is normal and passes on its own. From 3-4 months the growth begins, and the difference grows clearer with every passing week.
Hair Transplant in Zagreb: 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.
The Croatian Medical Chamber as your second opinion on a name
The city of Zagreb had 767,131 inhabitants at the 2021 census, and the wider metropolitan area, counting Zagreb County, reached 1,086,528. Among so many people, the practical question for anyone weighing a transplant is how to confirm that a name on a consultation plan belongs to a licensed physician.
Croatia's reference body is the Croatian Medical Chamber, Hrvatska liječnička komora, with a website at hlk.hr. It publishes a directory of physicians, the Imenik liječnika, and has a licensing section that covers issuing, renewing, replacing and certifying a licence. Ask the clinic who exactly will perform your transplant, get that full name, and search for it in the directory.
Put the same request to the clinic itself. It holds a medical licence, and diplomas and certificates of the doctors are shown to you before payment. Ask for the licence number, the name of the legal entity that provides care and a copy of the contract text. File each answer with its date. If two answers disagree, the dated folder tells you which came first.
None of this involves booking anything. Your first assessment is an online consultation at no charge, and the coordinators who look after papers and diary dates answer in WhatsApp and Telegram whenever you write.
Keep printouts or screenshots of each directory result with the date you searched. Entries can change, and a dated record is more useful to you than a memory of what the screen once showed.
Interview questions for a decision you can defend a year later
A transplant takes one day, but its logic unfolds over twelve to eighteen months, so the questions you ask now should be ones you can still check later. Prepare a short list and ask every adviser the same things, in the same order, so the answers can be compared.
Question one: what is my pattern of loss, and does it match the cases listed as suitable, which are androgenetic or diffuse alopecia, bald areas and a receding frontal area? Question two: do any items on the cautionary list apply to me? Question three: which method do you propose, and what finding would alter that choice? Question four: how many grafts, counted by whom, and where is the number written down?
Then ask about people. Specialists on the hair side are a transplant doctor with trichology training, a dermatovenereologist who is also a trichologist, and a plastic surgeon, with assistants and coordinators in support. Find out who will examine you, and whether the examiner also operates. The stated principle is that your consultation doctor is your operating doctor.
Close with aftercare. Which dressings and checks follow surgery? How are the grafted and donor areas to be looked after? Who answers when a photograph worries you at an odd hour? Write the answers down; the clinic promises a personal coordinator from first enquiry through recovery, and that promise is easier to hold someone to when it is on paper.
Keep a score sheet. Put each adviser in a column and the five questions in rows, then fill the cells from written answers only. A column with empty cells shows exactly where the next message should go, and a reply that cannot say which method, which count and which doctor is not yet a plan.
FUE, DHI and the hybrid, one decision at a time
Treat method choice as a sequence of smaller decisions. First decision: how are grafts removed? With FUE the grafts are lifted out by forceps, and the technique leaves neither incisions nor stitches; damage to the graft stays minimal, the growth angle looks natural, survival is given as 98–100 per cent, and the named indication is androgenetic alopecia.
Second decision: how are grafts placed? DHI works through a Choi pen that places each unit directly, with no channel-making stage at all. Third decision: do you want both? The hybrid pairs FUE extraction with DHI placement and is intended for densification in androgenetic alopecia.
Survival and trauma figures are averages offered as a guide. The treated area and your own features shape the exact numbers, and the doctor sets them out at the consultation. Ahead of surgery the donor zone, at the back of the head or the temples, is inspected, the grafts are counted, and a realistic outcome is explained.
Facial hair follows the same thread. A beard draws on the back of the head, the grafts going in through micro-punctures of about 1 mm once the outline has been agreed with your face in mind. Eyebrows begin with the surgeon marking the line during the first consultation and reviewing reference photographs, so the pattern exists before work starts.
Photographs are the common entry point to all three. Use daylight and dry hair parted as usual, a plain background and no flash, and capture the crown, front, temples and back, together with a close-up of the donor area. Add one line on when the thinning began and what you have tried.
Who funds it: what the Croatian sources say
The Croatian government's overview of compulsory health insurance lists primary, specialist and hospital care, medicines on the HZZO lists, and dental and orthopaedic aids. Aesthetic procedures do not appear in it. A separate guide to healthcare in Croatia states that the cost of some elective services, plastic surgery among them, is not covered by mandatory health insurance.
Neither source discusses hair restoration by name. So the honest statement is narrow: nothing in the sources suggests that a transplant is covered, and if you believe a medical reason applies to you, send that question to HZZO or to your own doctor as a written message, then file the answer.
Inside the clinic, the arrangement is simpler. At the free consultation the grafts are counted, and the cost that follows is entered in the contract. Reserving the day involves a deposit, by card at the clinic or online, and the terms are written into the medical services contract.
The sequence that costs nothing to follow is therefore: photographs, the doctor's verdict, a written plan naming method and graft count, the documents listed above, and only then a decision.
A practical reading of all this: set the money question aside until the medical one is answered. Ask first whether a transplant would help you, then what exactly the contract includes, and only after that discuss the arrangement for paying.
Who should wait, and what recovery looks like on paper
Sometimes the right answer is no, because the doctor gains nothing from operating needlessly. The cautionary list names trichotillomania, body dysmorphic disorder, cancer, age under 18, intolerance to anaesthetics, epilepsy, serious heart conditions, diabetes mellitus, a pacemaker, AIDS or HIV, hepatitis B or C, pulmonary embolism and patchy alopecia. Insufficient donor density, inherited growth traits, burn or injury damage, shedding after illness and hormonal shedding call for a candid talk.
If something on that list describes you, find out what would suit you instead, and have that advice written down. If you cannot tell whether a detail matters, raise it regardless, since the doctor can only judge what has been said.
On the day itself, surgery is a day-case procedure under local anaesthesia, and home is where you sleep that night. Afterwards the sequence is 0–10 days of healing, 2–4 weeks of normal shedding in the transplanted hairs, 3–4 months before regrowth starts, 6–9 months for thickness, and 12–18 months for full volume and a natural edge.
Check-ups fall at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. Ahead of each one, take photographs from the same angles in the same light and forward them to your coordinator. Aftercare also covers dressings, healing checks, guidance on shampooing, sleep and headwear, and a schedule for getting back to sport.
Treat the first fortnight as a period for following instructions instead of testing the result. Keep the written care plan where you can see it, and write your questions as they occur, so that the next contact with the coordinator covers all of them in one message.
Can I begin a consultation from Zagreb online?
Yes. Message a phone number and pictures of the thinning areas through WhatsApp or Telegram, and a doctor gives a first opinion. Nothing gets reserved.
Where do I check a physician's name in Croatia?
The Croatian Medical Chamber, Hrvatska liječnička komora, publishes a directory of physicians, the Imenik liječnika, at hlk.hr.
Does compulsory health insurance pay for a transplant?
The government overview of compulsory insurance does not mention aesthetic procedures, and a guide to Croatian healthcare says plastic surgery is not covered. Ask HZZO about your own case.
Which documents can I ask for before paying?
The medical licence, the legal entity providing care, the doctors' diplomas and certificates, and the contract text.
Who decides the number of grafts?
The doctor, once your donor zone has been studied; ask for the figure in writing.
What are the follow-up points after the operation?
Check-ups at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months, with photographs exchanged with your personal coordinator in between.
May the doctor refuse a transplant?
Yes, and with an explanation, whenever surgery would bring no benefit or a contraindication is present.
Forceps
Minimal
