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Master Group Hair Transplant

Portela, Portugal

Dra. Bárbara Costa ✓ verified

4.1 composite score 21 reviews · 2 platforms high confidence

Master Group Hair Transplant is a hair-transplant clinic on our list in Portela, led by Dra. Bárbara Costa (verified in an authority-body directory). This clinic does not publish its own price; the market-level estimate for the region is Market average: $1.25–$3/graft. Cross-checked against 5 independent sources; ratings below are shown per platform, unblended.

You can't pay to be listed here 5 independent sources Honest negatives kept, not hidden

4.1 Google 15 reviews 4.2 Trustpilot 6 reviews

Surgeon & safety signals

What Reddit and forum users actually argue about: who does the work, and whether it's a "hair mill". We state only what's verified; the rest is honestly marked not disclosed.

Hair-mill riskNot enough data

ISHRS / authority memberYes, directory-verified

Years in hair restorationNot stated

Named surgeonYes

Doctor performs incisionsNot disclosed

Doctor performs extractionNot disclosed

Surgeon involvementNot disclosed

Technician involvementNot disclosed

Procedures per dayNot disclosed

Revision rateNot disclosed

Surgeons

Dra. Bárbara Costa verified

MD; ISHRS member (directory profile doctor/50000, current); Ordem dos Médicos de Portugal; World FUE Institute; FUE hair surgeon

Verified profile ↗ (Master Group official medical-team page (self-published))

Dra. Mariana Alves

MD (Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo); FUE hair surgeon; ISHRS/World FUE affiliation claimed by clinic

Dra. Flávia Barsali

MD; third founding partner of Master Group (clinic site); FUE hair surgeon

Pricing

Market average: $1.25–$3/graft (~$2,650–$8,000 all-in for ~2,500 grafts). Clinic-specific price not published. not confirmed on the clinic's own site · source: graftcost market estimate (country-prices.js, 2026-08 sourced research pass, high confidence, country average)

Market-level estimate for the region, not this clinic's own published price. Source: graftcost market estimate (country-prices.js, 2026-08 sourced research pass, high confidence, country average)

Contact

Website	www.transplantecapilar.pt/en/master-group
Phone	+351 210 168 281
WhatsApp	+351 937 553 261
Email	[email protected]
Google Maps	View on Maps
Accreditations	ISHRS (Bárbara Costa — member directory profile confirmed; clinic-wide certification claimed but unverified)

Notable

FUE clinic founded by three female doctors (Bárbara Costa, Flávia Barsali, Mariana Alves) at R. Mouzinho de Albuquerque 10A, Portela/Loures; ~1,500 surgeries claimed over 4 years.

Sources & verification

Compiled into the 2026-08-14 dataset build. No separate re-verification date is recorded for this clinic. Placed by verification, never by payment.

Editorial note: Downgraded Tier 1 → Tier 3. The one solid independent anchor is Bárbara Costa's CURRENT ISHRS directory profile (doctor/50000; also documented in ISHRS Forum 2016 FUE roundtable and multiple ISHRS annual meetings) — this saves the clinic from being dropped. However clinic-level corroboration is thin: remaining sources are the clinic's own site, Facebook/LinkedIn (self) and best-hair-clinics (aggregator, excluded). No independent editorial, no confirmed Trustpilot/Google review data, no Reddit. Co-principals Mariana Alves and Flávia Barsali have NO confirmed authority-body directory profile (verified:false). Candidate JSON originally omitted Flávia Barsali and mislabelled the team as two doctors — corrected here to the real three-doctor roster. Contact (landline, mobile/WhatsApp, geral@ email) is published on the clinic site. [2026-08-13 re-verification] KEEP at Tier 3 — second independent source located. (1) ISHRS Find-a-Doctor profile #50000 for Dra. Bárbara Costa: I opened it and confirmed it publishes www.transplantecapilar.pt and a Portuguese phone (+351 210 168 281), so the authority-body record explicitly ties the registered surgeon to THIS clinic — not just to a person. (2) A real Google Business Profile exists: the Trustindex aggregation of the clinic's review pool shows 12 Google reviews (of 23 total, 4.6/5) with named reviewers and verifiable dates spanning 2020–2026 (Pedro Silva 29 Jul 2026, Daniel Pereira 12 May 2023 describing a second procedure after complications, Miguel Silva 2020 comparing Portuguese vs Turkish clinics) — a mixed 20×5★/1×4★/2×1★ spread, which reads as an organic profile rather than a seeded one. A Google place record for 'Master Group Hair Transplant, Loures' also exists (top-rated.online place id 9265655, 403 to automated fetch). Supporting but NOT counted: the ISHRS 2016 Las Vegas Final Program Guide naming Dra. Flávia Barsali (Portugal) as manual-FUE mini-course faculty — same authority body as source 1, so it does not add independence; and blueberryclinic.pt, a separate ERS-licensed operator (reg. E153890) at the same R. Mouzinho de Albuquerque 10A, Portela address, which corroborates the venue but not the hair-transplant practice. Excluded: best-hair-clinics.com, hairrestorationeurope.com, trikkos.com (aggregators/listicles); Facebook/Instagram/YouTube (self). Remaining weakness that justifies Tier 3: only 12 Google reviews, zero forum/press coverage, and the ERS registration numbers could not be confirmed against the SRER public registry (JS-only app). Three named founding doctors, all currently listed — no marketing-front risk.