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I want to share my story of a hair transplant in Delhi with others who are suffering from hair loss. I don't want people to be misguided by fake ads so please read this carefully if your life and safety is important.
A year ago, I decided to have a hair transplant to correct my receding hairline. I decided to go to Eugenix Hair Sciences in Gurgaon first. Their staff was professional and the consultations was also good. I was told that their owners are Dr Arika Bansal and Dr Pradeep Sethi who are the best hair transplant surgeons in the world. Dr Arika Bansal met me and said she had done thousands of procedures. She said she had invented the DHT technique: Direct Hair Transplant. I was also shown a case of an actor on whom they had done a transplant of 30,000 hairs!! They said most of the hair was taken from the beard.
I was very impressed and decided to book my procedure with them.
Later that night, I did more research on Eugenix. I couldn't find any information on the ‘revolutionary’ DHT technique, except on the Eugenix website. There was nothing about the doctors either. That was strange.
The other clinic that I was looking for was DHI. DHI stands for Direct Hair Implantation. This is a Greek company which has been in India for 10 years. I booked an appointment at the DHI Clinic in Safdarjung Enclave, Delhi. My consultation was done by a doctor. That was a big difference versus Eugenix where I met a salesman. After an alopecia test they told me I needed 4,000 hair procedure and that I had enough hair in my donor area for the surgery.
Having just come from Eugenix where I had heard about the DHT technique, I was sceptical and asked the doctor how DHI was different from DHT. The DHI doctor did not speak much about Eugenix’s DHT but told me that DHI is a technique where they use a patented tool to implant the hair directly in the skin instead of first making holes and then pushing hair grafts into them with forceps (as is done by everybody else). This leads to more density, higher survival rate and control over direction, angle and density giving natural results. The entire procedure would be done by a doctor, unlike at Eugenix, where nurses would do the procedure under the ‘guidance’ of a doctor. I was quite convinced, but still decided to check up more on DHI before booking and spent a few hours researching about them when I got home.
To my surprise I came to know that DHI is one of the largest chain of hair transplant clinics in the world and were the people who created FUE. The company later created the DHI technique and patented that and it is now present in more than 40 countries across the world.
The more I read about DHI, the more I saw that Eugenix had copied DHI completely. No wonder they called their technique ‘DHT’. Eugenix in their DHT technique claimed that they used implanters to implant the hair into holes they had created from before. Having understood how an implanter works and its benefits, I realized that there was no sense to use an implanter when the surgeon had already created holes.
Eugenix on more questioning admitted that nurses perform their procedures. Dr Arika and Sethi are mouth pieces of Eugenix and only in last 5-6 years, they started claiming expertise in hair transplant. Before that they were nobodies. Their claim of extracting 30,000 hair from beard is such a lie! Beard has only single hair follicles and I learnt that maximum 1000 follicles can be extracted from there! How can they lie so much? Can doctors lie so much to make money?
I booked my procedure at DHI and got my transplant done in February 2020. The entire procedure was done by a medical director who had performed 500 procedures and been trained by DHI London Academy.
It has been 6 months since my procedure, and I have great results already. I am thankful that I did not fall into the trap of Eugenix and would recommend everyone to have consultations at multiple clinics before choosing where to get a hair transplant done.