Avoid Nobel Clinic at all cost

I had my first hair transplant at Nobel Clinic in the UK, after a referral there from their local branch in Norway.

My only advice is to avoid Nobel Clinic at all cost.

Although this is now many years ago, their methods were already antiquated back then. The procedure itself involved "punch graft" extraction of hair from the neck. These punches were then cut into what I believe they called "micrografts". These are grafts containing 5 to 8 hairs, which is far too much to give a natural appearance. The result I got was what is popularly referred to as "dolls hair", and my neck was painful and full of ugly bald areas.

Their own website states that "The treatment is a minor surgical procedure that takes 2/3 hours". From this, it's evident that they have to compromise on quality. Modern hair transplant surgery takes much longer time, because hair follicles are placed one by one, not in large groups of up to 10 hairs (which means 10 times the work). Also, great caution is used when placing the grafts, to achieve a natural appearance. It's important to get the angle of the hair right, and to avoid placing the grafts too "deep". Nobel Clinic fails on all these accounts.

I ended up going to New Hair Clinic in Sweden to cover up the work done by Noble Clinic.

It seems I'm not alone in having bad experiences with Nobel Clinic. A blogger calling himself "Nobel Victim" writes "I have really lost a good five or more years of my life worrying about hair, when I should have been worrying about living. It is such a monumental waste of anyone’s life [...]" I certainly know the feeling. My results weren't as bad as his, but I'm inclined to think it was only because I had a smaller transplant.

Read about my further experiences with New Hair Clinic in Sweden, and just recently, uplifting experiences with FUE at Dr. Mohammad Mazher Hussains clinic in Pakistan.