The Surgeon Who Will Operate on You, and the Team Around
The hair transplant surgeon in Tirana who assesses your photos is the one who operates. That is the surgeon who will treat you: the person who reads your photographs is the one in the room from the first graft to the last. The division of work in the theatre is stated below in one sentence, because it is the single question that separates clinics and almost nobody answers it on a public page.
- Surgeon
- The surgeon who will treat you
- Division of work
- The specialist who assessed your hairline is the one in the room from extraction to the final graft
- Consultation languages
- English, Italian and Albanian
- Reviews your photos
- The surgeon who will treat you, before any price is quoted
Send the three photos and you are writing to the surgeon, not to a call centre. The reply gives a graft estimate, the technique and the price, and it is signed.
Training and background
Training in hair restoration is not a protected speciality anywhere in Europe, which is why the question to ask any clinic is not “is there a doctor” but “what did that doctor train in, and for how long has hair been the work”.
Who does which part of the operation
the specialist who assessed your hairline is the one in the room from extraction to the final graft
Three steps make up a transplant, and clinics differ in who performs each one.
- Planning and the hairline. A surgical judgement about a face that will be twenty years older, not a template. Drawn with the patient sitting up and awake, and redrawn until it is right.
- Extraction. The punch decides whether a graft arrives intact and whether the donor area heals evenly. Punch size, angle and the spacing of the harvest are the difference between a donor area nobody notices and one that looks moth-eaten at grade 1. This is described step by step on the FUE page.
- Channels and placement. Depth, angle and density per zone, then grafts placed into them. Trained technicians assist with placement in most clinics in the world, including here; what should never happen is technicians deciding the plan or opening the sites unsupervised.
If a clinic answers that question with “our expert team”, treat it as an unanswered question.
The team in the room
Graft handling is most of the skill on their side: time out of the body, temperature of the holding solution, how the grafts are sorted by the number of hairs so that single-hair units go to the front line and three and four-hair units go behind them. A poorly handled graft is a graft that never grows, and no surgical technique compensates for it.
Second opinions and repair cases
Patients arrive with work done elsewhere: a hairline that sits too low, grafts placed in rows, a donor area harvested past what it could give. Those assessments take longer and are handled as their own service, with the previous clinic’s report if you still have it, on the repair and revision page. The clinic does not comment on who did the original operation and does not put anyone else’s photographs on its website.
Why the surgeon is in the room from the first graft to the last
Google’s guidance for medical pages asks who wrote the content and what qualifies them; patients ask the same thing in different words. The clinic’s answer is on every treatment page: who reviewed it and the date it was last checked. More about how the clinic is set up, including the one-list-a-day model, is on the clinic page.
To speak to the surgeon before booking anything, ask for a video call when you send your photos, or write to +355 69 691 1118. Calls are scheduled around the operating list, so they are usually late afternoon.
Clinically reviewed by the treating surgeon. Last reviewed 25 September 2026.