What is a real-world good price at a good clinic for about 2,000grafts FUE? Looking for suggestions

[stockrider]

I am very new to hair transplants. I thought about it for years as I am not young, but never researched it and just let it be until recently. Living in North America, prices vary, I've seen $4.5/graft to $12/graft quotes. but then I've seen quotes from doctors in Turkey and nearby countries with quotes around $10,000usd for a the same thing as well, which hardly makes any sense to me. I mean, why would I travel and risk in a 3rd World country when I can do the same thing for the same price(or even more if I budget travel,time,+ lack of oversight, risk,etc).  

I am starting to learn about "hair mills" which seems to be an issue with Turkey and maybe a few other countries. Here in N.A, only actual doctors can do the procedures.  I've seen quotes online for a HT in Turkey as cheap as $1500usd but my understanding it would be from a hair mill? Are all hair mills bad or there are good ones?

I suppose there are 2 main questions.

If a hair-mill technician is doing his/her job every day for say 5-10 years, wouldn't the quality eventually be on par/better with a doctor doing the same?

Which brings me to my final question. What realistically I can expect to spend for a good job for what seems like about 2000-2500 grafts for my Norwood 2.5(maybe 3) hairline? I am currently looking at Turkey or Mexico as I am trying to find a place I can afford to fly to and do the procedure and those are very easy to travel to.  Seems like most other places would be un-affordable for me, including any in North America as I don't have 10K to spend.

I will certainly take any tips or recommendations of places and clinics(except in Asia) if you have any.

[Melvin- Admin]

How many grafts do you need can you share pictures? Have you submitted consultations through our recommendations? 
https://www.hairtransplantnetwork.com/Consult-a-Physician/hair-transplant-surgeons.asp?sr=HRN-MOB

[stockrider]

My hair are very similar to the guy in this post: https://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/topic/34555-fue-by-dr-reddy-46-year-old-man-with-norwood-3-1471-grafts/ This is why in the title I estimated it to about 2,000 grafts +-

I haven't contacted because I do not want to spend hours randomly sending price requests to 100s of doctors without understanding the process, costs,etc.  Plus having real-world feedback from non-doctors and suggestions is the reason to post on a forum such as this, to have non or less bias opinions and suggestions from own experience.

[Melvin- Admin]

23 minutes ago, stockrider said:

My hair are very similar to the guy in this post: https://www.hairrestorationnetwork.com/topic/34555-fue-by-dr-reddy-46-year-old-man-with-norwood-3-1471-grafts/ This is why in the title I estimated it to about 2,000 grafts +-

I haven't contacted because I do not want to spend hours randomly sending price requests to 100s of doctors without understanding the process, costs,etc.  Plus having real-world feedback from non-doctors and suggestions is the reason to post on a forum such as this, to have non or less bias opinions and suggestions from own experience.

It doesn’t take hours. You can literally send multiple consultations at once within a couple of minutes. In general, good surgeons in the US charge $8-14 per graft for FUE. In Turkey, the best surgeons charge 2-4 euros  per graft. Of course you can pay a hair mill a couple of grand to a hair mill, but you’ll probably get botched. Hair Transplants require research and no one is gonna do that for you. This forum is a resource. Use the review section to look up reviews and send real patients pms to ask about details. 

[JDEE0]

Completely depends upon location. I'm not going to include hair-mill prices as I would never ever recommend anyone go to them, but for world class surgeons, the price is going to vary significantly between North America and Europe.

As you have said, for good surgeons in the U.S. and Canada, you're probably looking at between 6 and 10 (and above in some cases) dollars or so per graft on average, in Europe, (generally) between 2 Euros at the lowest and 5 Euros at the highest per graft on average. Most fall in the middle at 3-4 Euros per graft, and again, I'm talking about top surgeons here, you can obviously find cheaper in Turkey etc, but it's a no from me.

I had a similar hairline to yourself and paid 2.6 Euros per graft at Clinica O Porto, but here is another useful list of doctors and their prices in addition to the forums officially recommend list that Melvin has linked. Between the two, you have all the options anyone would need to ever consider for a HT: 

 

[stockrider]

Thank you for the link to th list Jdeeo. Helps to at least understand some options I did not consider.

[NARMAK]

If you can travel outside the US, it will allow you to possibly get a quality and affordable price internationally albeit you need to do your research and make sure you can fly out in time. Visa, vaccine requirements etc. 

There's some people that can spend $10,000 and get a result the same as somebody who spent $2500 if you go to the right places imo. 

Research is key and king.