The first question almost everyone asks is the price. It is a fair question, and the reason nobody answers it cleanly on a website is that the honest answer depends on a number nobody can see from a photograph: how many grafts your scalp actually needs.
1. Graft count is measured, not guessed
Two men with what looks like identical baldness in the mirror can need 1,800 and 3,400 grafts. Density per square centimetre, donor supply, hair calibre and how the hairline needs to be drawn for the face all move that number. A trichoscope measures it in about ten minutes. Anyone quoting you a final figure over the phone is quoting a guess.
2. Technique changes the per-graft economics
Conventional FUE, Sapphire FUE and DHI all cost differently per graft because they take different amounts of surgeon time. DHI earns its premium in the frontal hairline and temples where density has to read at close range. Spending it across a crown that needs bulk coverage is usually the wrong allocation of your money and your donor supply.
3. Where the surgery happens
This is the single largest hidden variable. A sitting in a hospital-attached operation theatre with monitored vitals, laminar airflow and an anaesthetist on call costs more than the same procedure in a clinic room with a chair and a fan. For an eight-hour sitting involving thousands of incisions under local anaesthesia, that difference is not a luxury.
4. Who actually places the grafts
In a lot of low-cost quotes, the surgeon draws the hairline, shakes your hand and leaves. Technicians extract and place for the next seven hours. The rate reflects that. Ask the question directly and ask for it in writing.
5. Graft holding time
A follicle that sits outside the body too long dies quietly, and you learn about it at month ten rather than on the invoice. Chilled preservation solution and timed handling protocols cost money and show up nowhere in a price comparison — but they are most of the difference between a 99% survival rate and a disappointing one.
What should be included in any quote
Surgeon fee, OT charges, medicines, the surgical kit, your first wash, and follow-up reviews for twelve months. If those are billed separately later, the number you were quoted was never the real number.
How EMI works
No-cost EMI up to twelve months is available through Bajaj Finserv and major credit cards, approved at the clinic on the day of consultation. Carry PAN and Aadhaar. Longer tenures are available at standard interest.
At HRG Clinic your figure is written and signed before you pay anything, and it does not move on procedure day. Book a free consultation in Sector 11, Rohini and you will leave with the graft count and the total on paper.
