Services, compared on what clinics actually state
Every technique and device below is listed exactly as stated by the 22 clinics in our ten-city index — from their own pages, with the date we checked. Two rules keep this honest: a device brand is not a credential, and “offers” means the clinic’s site says so, nothing more. Anything we could not confirm is absent, not guessed.
FUE (follicular unit extraction)
The dominant technique everywhere we look. The word tells you almost nothing — who performs it tells you almost everything.
7 of 22 clinics state itFUT (strip surgery)
Disappearing from menus, still clinically relevant. The practices that kept it enable the cheapest honest comparison in this industry: two quotes, one graft count.
8 practices across 6 marketsNeoGraft
The most common FUE device in our index — and the only service where two practices publish prices. A device brand, not a credential.
1 practice (Columbus market)SmartGraft
NeoGraft’s closest competitor device. One practice in our index states it — with four named surgeons and an unanswered who-performs question.
Why the service name matters less than you think
Hair transplant marketing leads with technique and device names because they are easy to advertise. But FUE performed by a surgeon who does the extractions personally and FUE performed by a traveling technician crew are different products under the same name — and the ISHRS consumer campaign centers on exactly that gap. Whatever service brings you in, the questions that separate clinics are the same four: who operates, and how do you verify it.
What we do not list yet
Several practices in our index mention adjacent offerings — PRP, “stem-cell” add-ons, scalp micropigmentation — but too few state them clearly for a fair comparison. When enough clinics publish checkable claims about a service, it gets a page; until then it stays out rather than padded.