David

I chose Clinicana based on positive online reviews, and also being able to speak on the phone to a couple of guys from the UK who had already visited.
I had FUE treatment for a receding hairline, a thinning crown. and a thin patch just in front of my left ear.
I’m now a year on since the treatment, and would happily recommend it to others.
It’s definitely good value for money – you pay an agreed price for your treatment, regardless of the actual number of grafts that end up being required, whereas in the UK you have to pay per graft. The price for the hair transplant, hotels and flights came to about a fifth of what it would have cost me in the UK 🙂

I’m happy to concur with others that I was well looked after and treated professionally.
You’ve really got to be patient in waiting for your results, I’m afraid!
After the initial elation of seeing my new hairline just after the operation, there was quite a barren period between weeks 3-10, when the transplanted hair temporarily shed, and I was longing like crazy to see some new growth!
It did eventually start growing back at around week 10, but I had to wait till about 6-7 months down to line to feel like I was getting some kind of a result.

I definitely recommend taking a week off work after the operation – I wasn’t really in pain, but my face was quite swollen and I ended up with a full on black eye, because of the anaesthetic. Plus, it takes about 10 days for the grafts to become fully secure, so if you get some kind of scrape during that time, you could potentially lose some.

Anyway, 1 year on I feel that it was definitely worth doing, and overall things have improved. In all honesty, there’s some room for improvement – my trasnplanted hair is a little lacking in density and perhaps not fully up to speed yet, but there are many online comments about it taking anything up to 18 months to see a full result. Hopefully I’ll return then to give a definitive review. I’m particularly pleased that Clinicana were willing to address the thin patch in front of my left ear – it had been that way for years, even before my main hairline started receding. As you can hopefully see from the photos, that has been a definite improvement.

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