Cost

The cost of carrying out a quality hair transplant is considerable as the process requires a team of highly skilled medical staff and technicians. There is no low-cost method of providing a permanent solution to hair loss by surgical means. Therefore, if cost is the principal factor guiding your decision about whether or not to have a hair transplant, we strongly advise that you do not have surgery and instead consider the medical treatments. Having an inferior quality hair transplant carried out can have serious, negative and long-term consequences. As one patient put it: "You never remember the price of a good job and you never forget the price of a bad one".

To reflect the impact in Ireland of the global economic downturn, which emerged during 2008, HRBR resolved to decrease the cost of a hair transplant for its patients by reducing the price per transplanted graft from €10 to €8.50.

We will endeavour to keep our rates at this level, which represents a significant discount on our pre-recession rates, for the foreseeable future.

New legislation included in the Finance Act 2010 indicates that it may no longer be possible to claim back a percentage of costs for hair loss treatment on the Med 1 form.