In South Africa, the price of an organic hair transplant has skyrocketed, with many patients now spending up to $600,000 on the procedure.
But how much is really needed to have the desired results?
According to the head of the transplant unit at the University of Cape Town, the average patient will need between $1,500 and $5,000 for the hair transplant procedure.
This comes out to around $12,000-14,000 per year.
This is a massive amount of money, so the transplant surgery itself is a very costly undertaking.
To put it in perspective, South Africa has the third-highest rate of skin cancer in the world and more than 300,000 patients die every year from it.
Hair transplant is also very expensive, with a price tag of around $20,000 to $50,000.
This costs the patient a lot of money.
Hair transplants are also a very expensive operation to perform, as well, so you should expect to pay around $5 million to $10 million for a full hair transplant.
Hair replacement surgery is another expensive operation, with the average cost of the operation being around $30,000 and the average time to complete it around seven to eight months.
According to Dr. Paul Schreiber, director of the Department of Dermatology at the Institute of Dermal Surgery, these prices reflect the actual costs of a hair transplant and a hair replacement operation.
Dr. Schreib, who has done a study on the cost of a full haircut in South African society, told The Irish Time that the average person will need to pay between $15,000-$25,000, depending on the type of surgery and the procedure itself.
“In South Africa we don’t have any specific figures, but we think it’s around $15 million.
In fact, it’s probably closer to $20 million,” he said.
Hair removal is also a costly procedure, as the average hair removal operation costs around $500,000 depending on its type and the amount of hair removed.
“The hair removal process itself is quite expensive,” Dr. Phyllis Mokwena, a dermatologist and head of a cosmetic surgery and treatment team at the Royal South African College of Dermologists told The Times.
“You are going to need a whole team of professionals to do the job and they are not paid for the work they do.”
This is also the reason why hair transplant surgeries are not usually carried out in South Africans.
“We do not have a hair donor registry, and so people who want to have a haircut and get their hair transplanted are not accepted in South Australia,” Dr Mokwara said.
The price of a haircut, hair transplant or hair replacement procedure in South Korea has also gone up in recent years, with prices around $200,000 or more.
A hair transplant in South Vietnam, which has a shortage of qualified and skilled hair transplant surgeons, cost around $1.5 million.
The cost of this operation is about $5.5 to $6 million.
Dr Phyllys Mokwer, the head dermatologist at the RSU, explained that in the past, the majority of patients who received transplants were male, but more recently there have been more female patients and now more men as well.
Hair grafting surgery is a more expensive procedure, costing around $25,500 to $35,000 in South Sudan, which is also experiencing a shortage in the country.
“As a general rule, it takes a few years for a hair graft to be done in South-Korea,” Dr Phynys Moll, a professor at the School of Dermetology at RSU and one of the authors of the study on hair transplant costs in South and South-Eastern Africa, told Business Insider.
“It will be around $4 million, depending how many grafts you have.”
According to this study, the costs of hair transplant surgery in South Asia are also increasing, but Dr Phys Moulton said the actual cost in South East Asia is still low, at around $400,000 compared to the world average.
Hair loss treatments are another expensive procedure for the patients.
Hair reduction and hair restoration are the most common treatments used to treat hair loss in South Eastern Asia.
According the study, in South China, which had a record number of people losing their hair due to an aggressive battle with cancer, hair loss treatment is a common procedure, and around $50 million has been spent on the treatment of hair loss since 2005.
Hair follicles and hair growth are also the most expensive treatments for hair loss, which are around $70,000 a year, in India.
Dr Moulston explained that the amount that the patients pay for these treatments is usually much higher than the actual amount of the costs, and it is very expensive to do.
“If you are going for a