What each tool does, and what it cannot
These are planning aids. They produce an estimate from the figures you type in; they do not assess you, and nothing here decides anything.
| Tool | Answers | Cannot tell you |
|---|---|---|
| Graft calculator | Roughly how many grafts your pattern needs | Whether your donor area can supply them |
| Norwood scale | Which stage your hair loss resembles | Whether the loss is still active |
| Weight-loss surgery calculator | Your BMI and whether you meet the usual criteria | Whether surgery is right for you |
| Ideal weight calculator | Target weight and excess weight, by several formulas | What your body composition actually is |
| Cost calculator | An indicative price range and likely saving | Your price — only a written quote is that |
| Recovery planner | How much time off to book, realistically | How your own recovery will go |
| Implant size guide | How volume relates to your measurements | What your tissue will safely carry |
| Smile design planner | Unit count, shade and shape options | How much enamel your teeth can spare |
Getting something useful out of them
The tools are most valuable as a way of arriving at a consultation with specific questions rather than a vague worry.
- Run the relevant tool before you contact anybody. Twenty minutes with a calculator gives you the vocabulary to tell whether the answer you get back is reasoned or generic.
- Write down what surprised you. A graft figure much higher than expected, or a recovery time much longer, is worth asking about directly.
- Compare it with what a clinic tells you. If a provider quotes you 5,000 grafts where the calculator suggested 2,500, ask them to explain the difference. There may be a good reason; there may not.
- Send the result with your photographs. It tells the clinician what you are expecting, which is as useful to them as the photographs.
- Treat a wide gap as a question, not a verdict. These tools work from averages, and you are not an average. The gap is the conversation.
Where estimates go wrong
- Graft counts assume ordinary donor density. Fine hair, low density or previous surgery changes the figure substantially.
- Recovery times assume a straightforward course and desk work. Physical work, complications or combined procedures all extend them.
- Prices are indicative ranges across many cases, not your quote. Technique, surgeon, implant type and stay length move them.
- BMI does not distinguish muscle from fat, and it is a poor measure for very muscular or very tall people.
- Implant volumes mean nothing without your tissue thickness and chest width, which only an examination establishes.
Why these run in your browser
A deliberate decision, and an unusual one in this sector.
Most "calculators" on medical travel sites are lead-capture forms wearing a calculator’s clothes: you enter your details, and the result arrives by email, after a salesperson has your number. Ours give you the answer on the page, with no email field, because the alternative is collecting health information from someone who only wanted an estimate.
- No email address, no telephone number, and no account needed to see a result.
- Nothing you enter is sent to our servers, or anyone else’s.
- Answers may be kept in your browser’s local storage so a reload does not wipe them. That is on your device and is never transmitted — the cookie policy sets out exactly which keys.
- No tracking pixels on any page of this site, so reading about a treatment cannot follow you around the web.
- Clear the tool, or clear your site data, and nothing remains.
Patient tools: frequently asked questions
Yes, all eight, with no email address or account required. The answer appears on the page rather than arriving after a salesperson has your number.
No. Every tool runs entirely in your browser and nothing is transmitted. We have no record that you used one beyond an anonymous page view, and only if you accepted analytics.
It is a reasonable starting figure from your pattern, typically within a few hundred grafts for a straightforward case. It cannot see your donor density, hair calibre or whether the loss is still active — all of which move the real number.
No. It is an indicative range across many cases. Your written quote is the only figure that binds either of us, and it comes after a clinician has reviewed your case.
Ask them to explain the difference. Our figures come from what patients report at twelve months rather than from what makes a package convenient, and "not enough time off" is the single commonest regret we hear.
It tells you whether you are likely to meet the usual criteria. Eligibility is decided by a surgeon after reviewing your full history, and BMI alone is not the whole assessment.
It shows how volume relates to your measurements, which helps you have the conversation. What your tissue can safely carry is established by examination — thickness and chest width matter more than the number you had in mind.
Possibly, if your browser kept them in local storage. That lives on your device only, is never transmitted, and disappears when you clear site data or use the tool’s reset.
Yes, all of them. They are built for a phone first, since that is where most people use them.
Yes — take a screenshot, or print the page. The print layout drops the navigation and keeps the content, which is what the print stylesheet is for.
Because asking for contact details in exchange for an estimate means collecting health information from someone who only wanted a number. We would rather give you the number.
Send it with your photographs when you start a free consultation. It tells the clinician what you are expecting, which is as useful to them as the photographs themselves.
