Last Reviewed: 10 September 2026
A beard transplant for Sussex patients costs a fixed £2,899, all-inclusive whatever the number of grafts, carried out in one day under local anaesthetic by GMC-registered surgeons at CQC-registered clinics. It thickens patchy growth or builds a new beard line using your own permanent hair, with 5☆ independently verified reviews and a free video consultation as the first step.
A Beard Transplant for Sussex Patients with My Hair UK
A beard transplant is an FUE hair transplant applied to the face. Follicular units are taken one at a time from the donor area at the back and sides of your scalp, where hair is permanent, and placed into the cheeks, jawline, moustache or chin. Once healed they grow as beard hair: you shave it, trim it and style it like the rest. The full procedure is covered on our beard transplant page.
Most of the Sussex patients we hear from want thickening work rather than a beard built from nothing. Patchy cheeks, a gap between the moustache and the chin, thin sideburns or an uneven jawline are the typical cases. Patchiness is usually genetic, so it does not respond to waiting, and a transplant is the only treatment that adds permanent hair where there is none.
Your consultation happens either by video from home, or in-person with the surgeon who would carry out your procedure if you'd prefer to travel to the clinic (directions below). It is free, and you get an honest answer on whether a transplant is worth it in your case, including when it is not, along with your graft plan and the fixed price confirmed in writing before anything is booked.
Beard Transplant Cost in Sussex
A beard transplant costs £2,899 for Sussex patients. That is a single fixed price whatever the number of grafts, agreed before surgery, and it does not move on the day. It covers the surgeon's time, the anaesthetic, all clinic fees, aftercare products and your follow-up reviews. There is nothing to add and nothing to negotiate.
Most UK clinics price beard work per graft, which means the bill depends on a number you cannot check yourself. A fixed fee removes that conversation entirely: whether your plan needs 600 grafts around the chin or 2,500 for full construction, the price is the same £2,899. The full breakdown is on our beard transplant cost page.
How Much Does a Beard Transplant Cost in Sussex?
The table below shows the typical graft counts for each beard area, and the price Sussex patients pay in every case:
| Area | Typical Grafts | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Moustache | 400-500 | £2,899 |
| Sideburns | 200-300 each side | £2,899 |
| Goatee and chin | 600-700 | £2,899 |
| Cheeks | 300-600 each side | £2,899 |
| Full beard | 2,000-2,500 | £2,899 |
How the Surgery Works
On the day itself you are at the clinic for several hours, awake, under local anaesthetic. The surgeon first draws the design on your face and agrees every line with you: the cheek line, the jawline and neckline, how the moustache joins the chin, and how new growth blends into any beard you already have. Nothing is placed until you are happy with those lines.
Grafts are then extracted one follicular unit at a time from the back and sides of your scalp, where hair is a close match for beard hair and keeps its permanence. Each graft is placed flat to the skin in the direction beard hair grows, with single-hair grafts along the visible edges. It is one day of surgery, and you go home the same evening.
How Many Grafts Does a Beard Transplant Take?
As a guide, these are the graft ranges each beard area usually needs:
| Area | Typical Grafts |
|---|---|
| Sideburns | 200-300 each side |
| Moustache | 400-500 |
| Goatee and chin | 600-700 |
| Cheeks | 300-600 each side |
| Full beard | 2,000-2,500 |
Recovery, and When You Can Shave
Recovery is quicker than most patients expect. For the first few days the treated area shows a small scab at each graft with some redness, and the scabs lift over the first two weeks. The patient photographs in this section show it honestly: fine dotted scabbing the day after surgery, then the same beard at two weeks with the scabs cleared and only slight redness remaining. Do not shave the transplanted area for the first two weeks; after that it can be trimmed, and normal shaving usually resumes from around a month once the grafts are secure.
Between roughly week two and week eight the transplanted hairs shed. This is normal and it is not the grafts failing: the follicles stay in place, new growth starts at around three months, and the beard reaches its final density between nine and twelve months. We keep in touch through the regrowth period with regular monthly check-ins, and you have free follow-up consultations with your surgeon at 6 and 12 months, by video or in-person.
Beard Transplant After 1 day
Beard Transplant After 2 weeks
Travelling From Sussex
Sussex is a Harrow-clinic county, and its busiest station is not Brighton but Gatwick Airport, where Gatwick Express reaches London Victoria in half an hour and Thameslink runs straight through the centre to St Pancras, five minutes from Euston’s Overground platforms; Lewes, Horsham and Haywards Heath are all under an hour from London, though Bexhill and Rye are nearer two. The Manchester clinic on Deansgate carries the same CQC registration, and Sussex patients who prefer the north are welcome there.
Whether home is Lewes, Horsham, Bexhill-on-Sea or Haywards Heath, in the county of the Downs and the Ouse Valley Viaduct’s eleven million bricks, fresh from the Norman keep at Lewes Castle, the bird hides at Warnham Local Nature Reserve or Mendelsohn’s De La Warr Pavilion on the Bexhill seafront, book a free consultation with our trichology team, in person or by video call, and receive a tailored beard plan for Sussex patients with the fixed £2,899 price confirmed in writing.
From Sussex to My Hair UK London (Harrow) Clinic
By Train
Southern and Thameslink cover the county: Lewes and Haywards Heath to London Victoria or London Bridge in around an hour, Horsham to Victoria in about 55 minutes, Bexhill to Victoria in a little under two, and Thameslink from Gatwick Airport, Three Bridges and Haywards Heath runs through central London without a change to St Pancras. From St Pancras, walk five minutes along Euston Road to Euston and take the Overground’s Lioness line direct to Kenton, about 25 minutes; from Victoria, the Victoria line to Oxford Circus and the Bakerloo north to Kenton. The Harrow clinic is a five-minute walk from Kenton station.
By Car
Driving from mid-Sussex takes around 1 hour 30 minutes. Horsham joins the M23 on the A264 at Pease Pottage, Junction 11, and the M23 runs up past Gatwick to the Merstham interchange, Junction 7 of the M25; Lewes and the eastern coast come up the A22 to Junction 6 at Godstone, and Bexhill uses Combe Valley Way out to the A21 for Junction 5. From any of them go clockwise to Junction 16, the Denham interchange, for the A40 and the A409 up into Harrow.
From Sussex to My Hair UK Manchester Clinic
By Train
There is no through train from anywhere in Sussex to Manchester, and the local trick avoids London altogether: Great Western Railway from Gatwick Airport along the North Downs line to Reading, then CrossCountry north via Oxford and Birmingham New Street to Manchester Piccadilly, around four and a half hours. Otherwise cross London to Euston for Avanti West Coast. The top of Deansgate, where the clinic is, sits by Victoria rather than Piccadilly: a fifteen to twenty minute walk across the centre, or a tram from Piccadilly to Victoria and five minutes on foot.
By Car
By car from Sussex allow around five hours from the coast. The M23 or the A22 to the M25, clockwise to Junction 16 and onto the M40 to its end at Junction 3A of the M42, the M42 to the M6, and the M6 past Stafford to Junction 19 at Knutsford for the A556 and the M56, or on to Croft at 21A for the M62, which reaches the Eccles interchange, where the M602 drops into Salford and Regent Road brings you onto Deansgate.
Local GPs
Check with your GP in Sussex before elective surgery, as some conditions and medications affect how grafts take; the surgeon will want that history at consultation. Three NHS practices across the county:
Foundry Healthcare Lewes (School Hill site, Lewes)
Address: School Hill House, 33 High Street, Lewes BN7 2LU
Riverside Medical Practice (Horsham)
Address: 48 Worthing Road, Horsham RH12 1UD
Sidley Medical Practice (Bexhill-on-Sea)
Address: 44 Turkey Road, Bexhill-on-Sea TN39 5HE
Who Performs the Surgery
Each clinic has a dedicated beard transplant specialist: Dr Mir (GMC 7567898) at the London (Harrow) clinic and Dr Munir (GMC 6122581) at the Manchester clinic, so beard work is a regular part of the surgical week rather than an occasional sideline. You meet the surgeon at your free video consultation before anything is booked, and the full team is on our surgical team page.
Manchester clinic
• Dr Khawaja Masood Munir: GMC 6122581.
8+ years’ experience, 1,400+ hair transplant surgeries.
• Dr Haider Gillani: GMC 8030796.
1,000+ procedures, with specific expertise in complex cases requiring detailed anatomical understanding.
London (Harrow) clinic
• Dr Mahdi Alosert: GMC 6168297.
20+ years’ clinical experience. Specialist in Afro-Caribbean hair and hairline lowering.
• Dr Shuaib Mir: GMC 7567898.
1,200+ hair transplant cases. BAAPS plastic surgery and RCS anatomy training.
• Dr Zakar Rafiq: GMC 6164032.
MBBS and BSc (Hons) from Imperial College London. Associate Member of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS).
You can meet the surgeon who will perform your procedure at your free consultation.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. How much is a beard transplant for someone in Sussex?
£2,899, one fixed all-inclusive fee regardless of graft count. Whether your plan needs 600 grafts or 2,500, the price is the same, and it is confirmed before surgery so nothing changes on the day.
2. Do I need to travel from Sussex for a beard transplant?
Yes, once. Surgery is a single day at a CQC-registered partner clinic in central Manchester or Harrow, north-west London, whichever suits you better. The consultation is free, by video from home or in-person at the clinic if you prefer, and follow-up runs by video unless you would rather come in, so the only required travel is the day of surgery itself.
3. Is a beard transplant permanent?
Yes. The grafts come from the donor area of the scalp, where hair is not affected by balding, and they keep that permanence in the beard. Once grown in, the hair is shaved, trimmed and styled like the rest of your beard.
4. Is a beard transplant painful?
Not during surgery: the face and donor area are fully numbed under local anaesthetic, and the numbing injections themselves are what most patients describe as the only uncomfortable moment. Afterwards any soreness is mild and short-lived.
5. Will the price change once the surgeon sees my beard?
No. £2,899 is the price for every beard transplant, agreed in writing before surgery, whatever graft count your plan turns out to need. There are no on-the-day additions.
6. Does the fixed price cover aftercare?
Yes. Aftercare products are provided as part of the £2,899, and the monthly check-ins and free 6 and 12 month follow-up consultations with your surgeon are included rather than billed separately.
7. What is the best age for a beard transplant?
Whenever your growth pattern has stabilised, which is typically from the mid twenties onwards. Our guide to the best age for a beard transplant covers how to judge it, and the free assessment gives you a straight answer for your own case.
Beard Transplants Near Sussex
We arrange beard transplants across the region: see beard transplants for Brighton patients, beard transplants for Crawley patients, beard transplants for Worthing patients, beard transplants for Tunbridge Wells patients, beard transplants for Eastbourne patients and beard transplants for Surrey patients.
Considering scalp work as well? Our guide to hair transplant costs for Sussex patients covers prices, graft numbers and travel in the same detail.
Send a few photographs of your beard and the surgical team will assess them, then a free video consultation talks you through what your beard would need, graft numbers included, with the fixed £2,899 price confirmed in writing. Sussex patients handle everything up to the day of surgery from home.