The Hair Dr

Leeds, United Kingdom

Dr Fas (Faisal) Arshad

4.5 composite score 359 reviews · 2 platforms high confidence

The Hair Dr is a hair-transplant clinic verified across independent sources in Leeds, led by Dr Fas (Faisal) Arshad. This clinic does not publish its own price; the market-level estimate for the region is Market average: $1.9–$8.1/graft. Cross-checked against 8 independent sources; ratings below are shown per platform, unblended.

You can't pay to be listed here 8 independent sources Honest negatives kept, not hidden

4.5 Google 200 reviews 4.6 Trustpilot 159 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

Years in hair restoration13+ yrs

Named surgeonYes

Doctor performs incisionsNot disclosed

Doctor performs extractionNot disclosed

Surgeon involvementTwo doctors perform procedures — Dr Fas Arshad as lead surgeon and Dr Hamza Ahmed, who is described as performing FUE hair transplant procedures — alongside technicians; step-level attribution not published

Technician involvementin-house "skilled technicians" referenced by the clinic; no names, count or scope of duties published

Procedures per dayNot disclosed

Revision rateNot disclosed

Surgeon

Dr Fas (Faisal) Arshad

MBChB (University of Leeds, 2007), MRCS (Gen Surg), DO-HNS (Glas), FRCS (ORL-HNS); GMC 6163361; ENT / facial plastic and hair restoration surgeon; advanced national fellowship at Oxford University Hospitals including plastic and reconstructive surgery of the head and neck; performing hair transplants since 2013 and exclusively in his own clinic since 2017; stated full member of the ISHRS and of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery; peer-reviewed publications including in the BMJ. Lead surgeon at The Hair Dr across Leeds and London.

Real patient discussion

Independent forum threads and community posts we found while verifying this clinic. Read the unfiltered patient experience, not just the marketing.

Pricing

Market average: $1.9–$8.1/graft (~$5,500–$14,200 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.hairdr.co.uk/
Phone	0800 052 0021
Email	[email protected]
Google Maps	View on Maps
Accreditations	FRCS (ORL-HNS), Royal College of Surgeons — held by the lead surgeon, GMC 6163361 — number obtained from independent physician directories, not only the clinic's own site, ISHRS full membership stated by multiple third-party directories but NOT confirmed inside the ISHRS's own member directory in this pass, Operates from Spire Leeds Hospital, an independent registered hospital

Notable

Operates out of Spire Leeds Hospital rather than a converted consulting room, and the lead surgeon holds an FRCS in ENT/head-and-neck surgery with peer-reviewed publications including in the BMJ — a genuine academic signal that is rare in this sector. The strongest independently-corroborated option in Yorkshire.

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: FIXED — the original submission's biggest gap is now closed. The surgeon is Dr FAS (FAISAL) ARSHAD, and his GMC number is 6163361; the previous entry could only say 'Dr Arshad' with no number because the clinic's own profile page sits behind a Vercel bot-protection checkpoint. The full name, GMC number and qualifications were recovered from four independent physician directories (Hair Transplant Network, TopDoctors, RealSelf, Hair Loss Physicians), none of which is a commission-driven medical-tourism aggregator, so independentSourceCount rises from 3 to 5. verified:false is KEPT deliberately: the ISHRS full membership is asserted by his own bio and by third-party directories that reprint it, but he was NOT located inside the ISHRS's own member directory in this pass, and he does not appear on the Hair Transplant Network's seven-name UK 'Elite Coalition' list despite having a profile page there. photos[] stays empty — no portrait could be captured from a source that clearly belongs to this surgeon, so none is guessed. On pricing: an r/HairTransplants poster reported being quoted £8,000 for 2,000 grafts here and asked whether that was a rip-off; that is patient-reported and is NOT recorded as a clinic price, so priceOrRange stays null. The clinic markets 'technicians and surgeons' together, so who performs which step should be confirmed by the patient.