Cost Is Not the Most Important Issue When Considering a Hair Graft

People here in the prosperous San Francisco Bay Area still get fixated on hair graft costs, but is that really a rational way to evaluate your hair transplant needs? You can get a really cheap cost for hair grafts, especially if you travel down to Mexico, and then spend the rest of your life ashamed at how bad your hair looks.

And unfortunately, that is very true. As with most things, there are people who are average, people who are highly skilled, and people who are downright – for want of a better word – useless. If you are considering a hair graft you don’t really want either the first or last of those three. You want a hair transplant surgeon who has the skills to give you a hair transplant that looks perfectly natural, and of which you can be proud. The hair graft costs in the Bay Area, while of consideration, are really the last thing that you need to worry about.

A Hair Transplant Is Never Going To Be “Cheap”

Let’s be honest: a hair transplant is never going to be “cheap” as such. It is never going to be a couple of hundred dollars. You are spending good money for a hair transplant, so the most important thing is the end result. If it costs a few dollars more, so what?

Then there is the way in which the hair transplant is carried out. Today, you can have a manual hair transplant from a surgeon or you can have one that uses the ARTAS hair transplant robot to undertake the surgery, as is used at Silicon Valley Hair Institute in Foster City.

There are several advantages to using the ARTAS robot, not the least of which is that it won’t leave any visible scars. When you have a manual transplant, the surgeon removes a strip of hair at the back of your head in order to provide the follicles for transplantation. There is no getting away from it: this leaves a scar. So you can’t wear your hair short unless you don’t mind people nudging one another and whispering “Ooh, look. He’s had a hair transplant”.

Another advantage of the ARTAS robot is that it doesn’t make mistakes. A surgeon transplanting hair manually can start to get tired and, no matter how good he is, will begin to make small errors. The ARTAS robot can carry on all day – and all night if you like – and will never get tired.

Don’t worry about hair graft costs in the Bay Area, just get the best result. Our Dr. Canales is happy to give all patients a free consult, and this can be done online at present so that he can answer all your questions.