A hair transplant in Chennai, planned by the surgeon who operates.
Genesis Dermatology is a hair transplant clinic in Chennai for FUE and FUT. Your donor area is measured in person by the hair transplant surgeon in Chennai who will design your hairline, not by a counsellor working from a photograph.
- Donor density measured before any graft count is given
- Written quote after the assessment, never over the phone
- Day-care procedure, four reviews across twelve months
Book an assessment
The surgeon measures your donor area and gives you a graft count and a written quote the same day.
Which pattern looks closest to yours?
Pick the diagram nearest to your scalp and we will carry it into your enquiry, so the surgeon knows roughly what to expect before you walk in.
Tap the closest match
Deeper temporal recession, hairline clearly moved back.
These are planning figures, not a quote. The number of grafts you can safely have depends on your donor density, which has to be measured in person. Nobody at this hair transplant clinic in Chennai will quote you over the phone.
FUE or FUT: which technique suits you
Both move your own follicles from the back and sides of your head to the thinning area. They differ in how the donor hair is taken, and that decides the scar, the recovery and the graft count available.
Technique one
FUE, follicular unit extraction
- Donor
- Follicles punched out individually
- Scar
- Scattered dots, not visible at short hair length
- Recovery
- Back to desk work in two to three days
- Grafts
- Fewer per sitting; large cases split into two
- Suits
- Short hairstyles, smaller to mid-size cases
Technique two
FUT, strip harvesting
- Donor
- A thin strip removed, then closed
- Scar
- One fine line, hidden under hair of normal length
- Recovery
- Sutures out at ten days
- Grafts
- More in a single sitting
- Suits
- Large grades where graft count is the constraint
Which one you are offered is a clinical decision, not a menu choice. It depends on your donor density, how much area needs covering and how you wear your hair. If a clinic offers you a technique before examining your donor area, that is a sales decision. We also do beard and eyebrow work, and repair of a previous hair transplant treatment in Chennai done elsewhere.
The day of your procedure
One day, start to finish. You walk in and you walk out, with no admission and no general anaesthesia.
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Hairline design
The surgeon draws your new hairline in marker while you are sitting upright, and you approve it in a mirror before anything is done. This is the step that decides whether the result looks natural in ten years.
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Donor harvest
Local anaesthesia, then extraction from the back and sides. You are awake, and most people listen to something or watch a screen.
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Break and graft count
Lunch and a rest while the grafts are sorted and counted under magnification. You are told the final count before implantation starts.
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Implantation
Grafts are placed one by one, following the angle and direction of your existing hair. This is the longest part of the day.
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Home the same evening
Washing instructions, sleeping position, medication and a review date. Someone should drive you.
Who a hair transplant actually suits
A transplant moves hair; it does not make more of it. Roughly one in four people who come in asking for surgery are told to wait or to treat medically first, and that conversation is part of the assessment.
Usually a good candidate
- Loss has been stable for a year or more
- Dense donor area at the back and sides
- Pattern baldness rather than patchy or scarring loss
- Realistic about density, not expecting teenage hair
- Over about 25, so the pattern has declared itself
Usually told to wait
- Active, rapid shedding that has not been diagnosed
- Thin donor area, where the limit is supply and not money
- Alopecia areata or any unstable scalp condition
- Early twenties with loss still advancing
- Uncontrolled diabetes or a bleeding disorder
Searching hair transplant near me?
If you have been looking for a hair transplant clinic near me or a hair transplant doctor near me, we have three clinics in Chennai, so the assessment is usually a short drive. Surgery is performed at the theatre attached to the clinic you were assessed at, by the same surgeon.
- Assessment and surgery at the same clinic, same surgeon
- Assessment slots from 9am to 8pm, Monday to Saturday
- Parking available at all three clinics
- Out-of-town cases grouped to cut down the number of trips
Patients also travel in from Kanchipuram, Vellore, Puducherry and further. Tell the front desk you are coming from outside Chennai and they will try to fit the assessment and the procedure into one visit.
Ashok Nagar covers the T. Nagar, Saidapet, K.K. Nagar and Vadapalani side; Kottivakkam covers Adyar, Thiruvanmiyur, Besant Nagar and the OMR stretch; Porur covers Ramapuram, Valasaravakkam, Mogappair and the Mount-Poonamallee corridor. Wherever you searched for hair transplant near me from, one of the three is close to you.
Patients regularly travel to us from
- Ashok Nagar
- Kottivakkam
- Porur
- T. Nagar
- Adyar
- Velachery
- Saidapet
- Vadapalani
- Thiruvanmiyur
- Ramapuram
- Valasaravakkam
- OMR / Perungudi
- Anna Nagar
- Kodambakkam
- K.K. Nagar
- Ashok Pillar
- Guindy
- Mylapore
- Alwarpet
- Nungambakkam
- Besant Nagar
- Egmore
- West Mambalam
- Choolaimedu
- Virugambakkam
- Maduravoyal
- Mogappair
- Ambattur
- Nanganallur
- Madipakkam
- Pallikaranai
- Sholinganallur
- Thoraipakkam
- Medavakkam
- Chromepet
- Tambaram
- Poonamallee
- Avadi
- Perambur
- Purasaiwalkam
What our patients say
★★★★★Two clinics quoted me a graft number over the phone. Here they measured the donor area first and gave me a smaller number, with the reason.
Vignesh K.Ashok Nagar
★★★★★I was told to wait a year and treat the shedding first. It was not what I wanted to hear, but the result afterwards was worth the wait.
Ramesh N.Porur
★★★★★Hairline was drawn and shown to me in a mirror before anything started. A year on it still looks like it belongs on my face.
Sathish B.Kottivakkam
Questions people ask before booking
How is the cost of a hair transplant worked out?
By the graft, not by package. The hair transplant cost in Chennai depends on how many grafts your donor area can safely spare and which technique suits you, so the figure is worked out after your scalp has been measured and given to you in writing at the assessment. Anyone who gives you a final number before examining your scalp is quoting a package rather than a plan.
Is the assessment free?
The consultation is charged like any dermatology consultation, and the fee is adjusted against your procedure if you go ahead. Our front desk will tell you the amount when they confirm your slot.
When will I see results?
Transplanted hair sheds within a few weeks. This is expected and not a failure. Regrowth starts around month three or four, and the result is judged at twelve months. Anyone promising results sooner is selling.
Does it hurt?
The anaesthetic injections sting for a few minutes. After that the day is long rather than painful. Most people take paracetamol for two evenings and go back to normal food and sleep the same night.
Will I need to shave my head?
For FUE the donor area is trimmed, and often the recipient area too. FUT needs only a small strip trimmed, which is one reason it is chosen by people who cannot take visible downtime at work.
How long before I can go back to work?
Desk work in two to three days. No gym, swimming or direct sun for two weeks, and no helmet on the recipient area until you are cleared at your first review.
Will my remaining hair keep falling?
Yes, unless it is treated. Hair transplantation in Chennai does not stop pattern baldness in the untransplanted areas, which is why medical treatment usually runs alongside it. This is discussed before surgery, not after.
Can a bad transplant be repaired?
Often, though it depends on how much donor hair is left. Bring photographs and any operative notes from the earlier procedure to the assessment, and the hair transplant surgeon in Chennai will tell you what can realistically be corrected.
Where we operate in Chennai
Three clinics across Chennai. Assessment and surgery happen at the same location, with the same surgeon; pick whichever is closest to you.
Ashok Nagar
Genesis Dermatology Skin & Hair Clinic
No. 85, 1st Street Avenue, Ashok Nagar, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600083
Kottivakkam
Genesis Dermatology Skin & Hair Clinic
Plot No. 394, Nehru Nagar, Kottivakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600041
Porur
Genesis Dermatology Skin & Hair Clinic
Plot No. 319, Mt Poonamallee Road, Ayappanthangal, Porur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600056
Find out if you are a candidate
One assessment tells you whether a hair transplant in Chennai is the right step now, later, or not at all.
About hair transplantation in Chennai
Most people who enquire about a hair transplant in Chennai have already been given a number by somebody: a graft count over the phone, a package price on a brochure, a figure quoted from a photograph on WhatsApp. None of those can be right, because the one thing that decides what is possible is donor density, and it can only be measured on your scalp.
That is how this clinic works. The surgeon examines the donor area, grades the pattern, and only then tells you the graft count, the technique and the plan. The quote is written, and it is given after the examination rather than before it.
We perform FUE and FUT, along with beard and eyebrow work and the repair of transplants done elsewhere. Where the loss is still active, medical treatment is started first, because surgery on an unstable scalp produces a result that looks worse two years later, not better.
If you have been putting off finding a hair transplant doctor in Chennai, one assessment tells you exactly where you stand, including whether the honest answer is to wait. Send the form above, or call the clinic during working hours.
The hair transplant doctor in Chennai who assesses your donor area is the same person who designs the hairline and performs the extraction; technicians assist, but they do not operate unsupervised. The hair transplant surgeon in Chennai you meet at the consultation is MBBS with an MD in dermatology, registered with the Tamil Nadu Medical Council, a member of the Indian Association of Dermatologists, and consulting in Tamil, English and Hindi, and is trained in both FUE and FUT restoration.