How Long Do Hair Transplants Last?. Sule Hair Clinic — doctor-led boutique clinic in Istanbul. Sapphire FUE, DHI, Hybrid from €2,990.
Hair transplants last a lifetime. The transplanted follicles, taken from the DHT-resistant donor area, retain their genetic programming after transplantation and continue to grow indefinitely. Documented patient cases extend 30+ years post-procedure with grafts still actively producing hair.
Most patients (60–70%) never need a second procedure on the same area. Touch-up sessions 5–10 years later are usually about adding density or addressing further native hair loss in adjacent zones — not because the original transplant 'wore out'.
Like all hair, transplanted strands gradually become finer and may turn grey with age. But they continue producing — they don't fall out due to androgenic alopecia. By age 70, transplanted hair often outlasts the patient's original native hair.
Three things: (1) poor surgical technique that damages follicles during extraction, (2) severe post-op infection or trauma in the first 14 days, and (3) progressive scarring conditions like lichen planopilaris. With a doctor-led clinic and proper aftercare, none of these are common.
Not the transplanted hair itself — but yes for protecting your native (non-transplanted) hair around it. Most surgeons recommend Finasteride or topical Minoxidil for at least 5 years post-op to slow further androgenic loss in the surrounding zones.
Sule Hair Clinic is a doctor-led hair transplant clinic in Istanbul, Türkiye. Dr. Enver Kayıkçıoğlu personally performs all Sapphire hairline channel incisions. Medical Director Dr. Selahattin Tulunay, a board-certified plastic surgeon, carries out the final quality control. Anaesthesiologist Dr. Zafer Ersin Ünlüer manages anaesthesia and intra-operative monitoring, and Şule Ölmez performs the hairline design consultations. We deliberately keep the number of operations per day very limited so every patient gets the full time of the senior team, have completed 30,000+ consultations, and our graft-handling protocol with Hypothermosol cooling protects graft viability. All-inclusive packages start at €2,990 and cover surgery, hotel, VIP transfers, medication and 12 months of follow-up; flights are not included. Google rating 4.9 from 1,700+ reviews. Turkish Ministry of Health approved · USHAŞ registered health tourism provider.
Address: Yeşilpınar, Çay Sk. No:2, 34065 Eyüpsultan, Istanbul, Türkiye. Telephone: +90 542 838 77 79. Email: info@sule-hairtransplant.com.