Safe Hair Transplant Surgery Starts Here.
Setting the Standard for Physician-Led, Ethical Hair Transplant Surgery
Before you choose a clinic, know whose hands are performing your surgery. A licensed physician brings the training, judgment, and accountability no imposter can replicate.
Trusted guidance from licensed ISHRS physicians worldwide, available in 15+ languages.
Skill. Artistry. Medical Training. Demand All Three.
Hair transplant surgery deserves a licensed doctor, someone with the surgical training, the artistic judgment, and the medical accountability to deliver a result that lasts a lifetime. Before you choose a clinic, make sure you know whose hands you are in.
Real Surgeons Don’t Vanish When Something Goes Wrong.
Black market clinics look legitimate online, until you need them most.
A legitimate hair transplant surgeon is licensed, registered, and reachable, from your first consultation to your final result. Before you choose, ask directly for a name, a medical license number, and the board they’re registered with.
You Can’t Hide a Botched Hair Transplant.
The result of a fraudulent clinic follows you for years in corrective surgery, in the hat you reach for every morning, in the photos you avoid. Before you choose, know who is performing your surgery and what’s really at stake.
A Lifetime of Care. Not a One-Day Transaction.
A real physician is still there at month twelve, and years after.
A legitimate physician reviews your medical history, sets honest expectations, and stays involved long after you leave the operating room, sometimes advising that surgery isn’t the right choice yet.
ISHRS Position Statement
Scalp Surgery Is Surgery. No Exceptions.
The ISHRS Board of Governors has taken a clear stance: any procedure that cuts the scalp is a surgical act. It must be performed by a licensed, trained physician. No technicians. No shortcuts.
Get Educated Before You Choose
Everything you need to ask the right questions.
Free resources built by ISHRS physicians to help you make an informed, confident decision.
Know the Risks
Understand the real, permanent risks of unlicensed hair transplant surgery.
Checklist Before You Choose
Download the questions every patient should ask before booking surgery.
A Nonprofit Mission to Educate Patients
Been Through It? Your Story Could Be Someone Else’s Warning.
ISHRS is a nonprofit medical society dedicated to educating patients on safe hair restoration. If something went wrong, the red flags you missed, the questions you wish you’d asked. sharing it could help someone else avoid the same mistake.