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A beard transplant has no single price. The figure follows the graft count, and the graft count follows which zones are treated and how much hair already grows there. This guide covers grafts by zone, what changes the cost and what an estimate should include, for treatment assessed and carried out at our Rohini clinic in North-West Delhi.
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The starting point
Filling two bare patches on cheeks that already grow reasonably well, and building a full beard where little grows, are very different jobs: the second can need several times the grafts of the first. One price for both would describe neither.
The grafts come from the back and sides of your scalp, the same finite donor area a scalp transplant would draw on. So the count is limited twice: by the beard design you agree, and by what your donor area can spare while keeping a reserve. What the procedure involves is explained on beard transplant in Rohini.
Zone by zone
Graft count is the main driver of cost, and it follows the zones and the hair already growing in them. These are general patient-education ranges, not a quote: your own count comes from a design mapped on your face.
General ranges, not a quote. Zones share borders, so a combined plan usually needs fewer grafts than the ranges added together, and existing growth lowers every figure.
Each zone’s grafts are multiplied by the rate for the technique used there, the zones are added together, and the items the estimate lists outside the rate are added on top. A moustache-and-goatee plan of 900 grafts is 900 × the rate; adding both cheeks means costing the larger combined count, not a second package.
The number shows the size of the job, not how the beard will look. Angle, single-hair borders and the density aimed for decide that, and no density can be promised. What to expect from a beard transplant covers how transplanted hair behaves on the face.
Cost factors
Roughly in order of how much each one moves the figure.
Cheeks, jawline, moustache, chin and sideburns each have their own graft needs. One zone and all five are different jobs.
Thickening a patchy beard takes far fewer grafts than building density where almost nothing grows. Often the largest gap between two quotes.
A light filling-in and a denser, sharper beard are different counts for the same area. The target is agreed as part of the design.
Facial hair lies flat and changes direction across the face, and borders take single-hair grafts. Slower work per graft than the scalp.
Scar tissue from injury, acne, cleft repair or earlier work makes placement slower and less predictable, and staging likelier.
A planned second session, or medical treatment alongside, is costed and stated on the first estimate.
At the Rohini clinic
The number follows the design, and the design follows an examination of your face and your donor area by a registered medical practitioner.

Step 01
Existing growth checked zone by zone, the skin looked at, and the donor area at the back and sides measured for what it can spare.

Step 02
Borders drawn on your face while you sit upright, checked in a mirror and agreed, then grafts allocated to each zone.

Step 03
Itemised by zone, with exclusions and any likely second stage named. You take it away to consider.

Before any deposit
An estimate you can check lists the work zone by zone rather than giving one round figure. Ask for it in writing before any deposit, whichever clinic you are considering.
Paying in instalments. Instalment options through third-party lenders may be available — ask at the consultation. The lender sets the terms, so ask for the total payable as well as the monthly figure; see cost, EMI and payment options.
Questions worth asking any clinic
A beard quote can only be compared with another once you know how each number was reached. These six questions bring that out, at any clinic in Delhi, including this one.
01
A count split by zone can be checked. A single figure attached to “full beard” cannot.
02
The grafts come from a finite supply. A quote made without measuring it is missing the key fact.
03
Ask by name and qualification. It is a fair question, and the answer should be immediate.
04
Anaesthesia, medication, dressings, blood tests and reviews can each sit inside or outside a figure.
05
If so, it belongs on the first estimate. A quote that becomes two after surgery was never the lower one.
06
A count taken from a photograph, rather than a design agreed in a mirror, describes a package rather than a plan.
Why quotes for the same procedure can differ so widely is covered in why hair transplant quotes vary, and recovery on the face in the beard transplant recovery timeline.
Who you will see
Examinations, estimates and beard transplants at the Rohini clinic are carried out by registered medical practitioners. Every doctor at DenceSpot is listed below with their qualifications.
Dr. Nyra
MBBS, MD (Dermatology)
Further reading
Plain-language articles on hair loss and its treatment. Each article shows its own author and review details.
What the limited evidence on minoxidil for the beard shows, how it is used, side effects on facial skin, and what happens when it is stopped.
Why many men's beards keep filling in until their late twenties, the role of genes and hormones, and when a patchy beard is worth assessing.
Why smooth round patches appear in the beard, how alopecia barbae differs from a naturally patchy beard, and why a transplant waits while it is active.
Visit the clinic
Beard examinations, written estimates, procedures and follow-up visits all take place at the Rohini clinic in North-West Delhi, near the Outer Ring Road.
Our clinic
Rohini, Delhi
Every treatment below is carried out at the Rohini clinic, and each starts with an examination and a written plan. See the Rohini clinic page for directions and hours.
Cost guides for the Rohini clinic: Hair transplant cost in Rohini · PRP treatment cost in Rohini.
Rohini, Delhi
Book an examination at the Rohini clinic, or send daylight photographs of your cheeks, jawline and chin on WhatsApp first. You will see a design drawn on your own face, hear honestly whether a transplant suits you, and leave with an itemised estimate if it does.
