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Thanks John! I agree with you. I do see some ethical doctors in Turkey and they do great work. Currently, I've narrowed it down to three clinics: HLC, Dr. Kaan, and Dr. Laorwong. What I need to decide is going with manual harvest or motorized. Do you have any suggestions or other doctors to recommend?

Create a beard. I am thinking of HLC or Dr.Kongkiat Laorwong

Can someone recommend a good affordable beard transplant doctor?

Thanks a lot, 2491! Dr. Laorwong did amazing jobs. Thailand is too far to travel but I will think again.

Thanks for sharing. Do you have recommended doctor in HLC? Trying to find more work they did for beard transplant. I think extraction and incision are two important procedures to me. I am ok with assistant doing the graft implantation. So I am not looking for "do it all".

Umm, not sure it will pass my smell test. Thanks for letting us know.

This is interesting! Did they offer you a different price then? If they have different options for the cost, I think it is ok to put that information in their website to make it more transparent. Are you going to choose him?

Thanks for sharing, Sean! Your journey of HT is quite impressive. I checked Dr Keser and cannot find any information about the cost. Some other folks in other websites say he charge 3 euro per graft. Not sure if he does the beard transplant as well since I want beard too.

Is FUE extraction important? Yes, it is definitely important. Follicular is very fragile. Many follicles died during the extraction before they are implanted. Poorly performed extractions wastes our money, our time, and our precious grafts. Does it have to be done by the doctor? It should be. However, in Turkey’s HT industry, you almost cannot find a doctor who does both the graft extraction and the slit incision. During the last ten years, the competitive cost of HT in Turkey appealed to many people due to the cheap price. However, the surgeries in most of clinics were done by technicians and nurses. You just see doctors in the first personal consultation and he draws the hairline, then he is done. This is why a clinic can take many patients in one day. They never tell you the follicular extraction will be not done by the doctor before you come to Turkey. This was completely hidden. We recently saw on some clinics’ websites that they explicitly list their package details. Primarily they have two different packages. With the cheaper package, technicians do all the procedures and doctor is just a supervisor. Choosing the expensive package, the doctor does the slit incision (open channel), but the FUE extraction is still done by technicians. Giving patients the clear information is an improvement and it is good. However, the concerns still exist due to the extraction done by technicians. So far, I have not found any clinic who is able to convince me their technicians can do quality extractions. After I watched the video below, I was completely terrified. People in the video treat the follicles like treating a pile of alfalfa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvSZSPGF2l4 I probably can understand why the doctors do not do the both extraction and incision. This could get the price way too high because a doctor might be able to take only one or two patients a day. It takes a lot of energy from the doctors. Based on this current circumstance of the business, you probably cannot expect it will change much in near future. Can you find a clinic that the doctor does the extraction in Turkey? So far, I only see two clinics. Dr. Ali Emre Karadeniz – Does he really do it like he promises on his website? Dr. Civas extracts grafts for 1 hour before leaving the assistants to proceed with the rest of the extraction. Does anyone have experience with them?