I’m always checking my hairline,” he says. “It’s something I’m conscious of at all times. Dr Richard Rogers, a veteran surgeon at the Westminster Clinic in London, told The Guardian that his diary has been “packed” since the pandemic, with a 50 per cent bounce in inquiries.Īdam*, 28, from London, tells GQ that he often considers getting a hair transplant. But during the pandemic, travel restrictions led to a surge in demand in the UK. Transplant tourism has become popular in places such as Turkey, where clinics offer half price package deals including hotels for as little as a grand. In the UK, the British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery (Bahrs) estimates that there are about 100 doctors doing hair transplant surgery in more than 200 clinics – 10 times the number there was a decade ago. Google searches for hair transplants have risen by 44% in the past five years. That’s not to say baldness isn’t something a lot of men feel insecure about.
