Compare hair restoration clinics on what you can verify
Independent, credential-based comparisons of hair restoration clinics in the United States.
Most comparisons of hair transplant clinics rank them by opinion. We do not. We compare only checkable facts — board certification, society membership, who holds the instrument during your surgery, and whether any price is published anywhere. Every claim carries its source and the date we checked it; anything we cannot confirm is marked “not stated”, and clinics can request corrections any day of the week.
Cities covered
Nashville, TN
Independent practices hold most of the local search results.
Charlotte, NC
National chains occupy a third of local results.
Indianapolis, IN
Per-graft promotional pricing is common in local advertising.
Kansas City, MO
Mixed market: dedicated hair practices and multi-service surgical groups.
Richmond, VA
Smaller market; many patients travel for treatment.
Raleigh, NC
Chains dominate search; the independents are unusually verifiable.
Columbus, OH
The most chain-dominated search results of any market we reviewed.
Salt Lake City, UT
Two local models: a multi-city FUE brand with a named local physician, and a facial-plastics group.
Louisville, KY
No dedicated hair-only practice — multi-service plastic surgery groups carry this market.
What we evaluate
| Criterion | Weight | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Who performs the surgery | Highest | Does a licensed physician make the incisions and harvest the grafts, or do technicians? |
| ABHRS board certification | Highest | Is the operating physician certified by the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery? |
| ISHRS membership | High | Is the physician a member of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery? |
| Who evaluates your hair loss | High | Is the diagnosis and treatment recommendation made by a physician, or by a sales consultant? |
| Price transparency | Medium | Are per-graft or total ranges published, or is an in-person consultation required to hear any number? |
| Malpractice coverage of the full team | Medium | Is everyone involved in the surgery covered? |
| Verifiable results | Medium | Are the before-and-after photographs of this clinic’s own patients, operated on by this physician? |
| Named in AI answers | Editorial | Does the clinic appear when ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google AI Overviews are asked who to choose in this city? |
Guides
How to Check Whether Your Hair Transplant Surgeon Is Actually a Surgeon
Four questions the ISHRS tells patients to ask, two public registries you can check yourself, and what the answers mean.
What Does a Hair Transplant Cost in the US? (2026)
Per-graft rates, typical graft counts by stage of loss, and what actually moves the total.
FUE vs FUT: What Actually Differs
Scarring, graft yield, recovery, cost and candidacy compared directly.
Hair Transplants Abroad: What the ISHRS Warns About
Why the price gap exists, what happens when a case needs revision, and the questions that travel poorly.
Common questions
How do I know a hair transplant surgeon is qualified?
The ISHRS publishes four questions patients should ask: who evaluates your hair loss and what is their licensure, who performs each part of the surgery, whether anyone not licensed by the state will make incisions or harvest grafts, and whether the whole team is covered by malpractice insurance. Board certification is separately verifiable through the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery.
Do technicians perform hair transplants?
Sometimes. The ISHRS runs a consumer campaign specifically about unlicensed technicians performing substantial parts of hair restoration surgery, citing risks of misdiagnosis, missed underlying disease and unnecessary procedures. Its position is that evaluation, planning, donor harvesting, hairline design and recipient site creation should be performed by a licensed physician or physician extender.
How is this directory compiled?
Each city page compares clinics on verifiable fields only: ABHRS board certification, ISHRS membership, who the clinic states will perform the surgery, price transparency, and whether the clinic appears in AI assistant answers for that city. Fields we cannot confirm are marked "not stated" rather than guessed. Featured placements are labelled and do not affect the comparison.