Black Market Clinics

The ISHRS is concerned about illegal and unethical hair transplant operations carried out worldwide which involve untrained or unlicensed non-medical persons performing surgery.

Vulnerable patients are lured by cheap prices and false adverting presented with misleading information alongside attractive medical tourism packages to visit clinics that use non medical persons with very little training in aesthetic hair transplantation. This type of surgery is unsafe. It is a serious health risk  often leading to tragic side effects such as permanent scarring, infection that leads to disfiguring results with very little to no recourse for correction.

Through Operation Restore, the ISHRS is providing free surgeries and assistance to victims of risky cosmetic hair surgeries who have been subjected to these unnatural looking results and surgical scars.

Learn more about the licensed ISHRS doctors in your country who are committed to personally perform necessary corrective surgeries to assure you the highest level of patient care, safety and results. Find your licensed doctor here.

The dangers patients should be aware about if they do not do the proper research or seek a qualified doctor or clinic.

Infections

Lack of proper medical training, poor sterility of both the surgical instruments and the surgery room, and cross contamination risks can lead to serious infections which will damage hair follicles and cause scars.

A good postoperative result should look clean and be without significant yellow pus, drainage or erythema. Many patients will have scabs redness and occasional bleeding but should not be yellow and pus like.

Donor Over-Harvesting

This results from excising to many follicular units in one area and lack of knowledge of skin blood supply and overaggressive attempt to excise a lot of grafts in a short amount of time.

Donor Site Necrosis

Cross Contamination

Clinics that operate in factory type of environment are at risk of HIV Hepatitis cross contamination.

Poor Hair Line Design / Unnatural Results

There is an art to proper design which is not known by an untrained individual. The following examples have violated the cardinal rules of aesthetic design which is supposed to make hair transplants happy.

Pluggy Hairline

A frontal hairline is supposed to look natural and not pluggy.

Representación errónea del recuento o terminología del injerto

This example demonstrates a patient who was sold a 3000 grafts surgery but only given approximately 1200 grafts (1200 x 2.5 hairs per graft = 3000) The clinic was counting graft hairs and each hair was counted as a graft.

Mujer

Utilizing one technique only and not having the ability to do Follicular unit transplant transplant in women can subject them to a massive amount of hair loss in the donor area and thinning which is irrecoverable.

Poor, Little Or No Growth

There are many factors that need to be controlled by a good doctor to assure proper growth.