Last Reviewed: 10 September 2026
A beard transplant thickens patchy areas or shapes a new beard line using your own permanent hair. For Wokingham patients the price is a fixed £2,899, 5☆ rated and all-inclusive with no hidden extras, delivered in a single day by GMC-registered surgeons at CQC-registered clinics. A few photographs and a free video consultation are enough for a clear plan and an honest answer on suitability.
Beard Transplant Surgery in Wokingham 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 Wokingham 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 Wokingham
£2,899 is the complete price of a beard transplant for Wokingham patients: one fixed, all-inclusive fee agreed in writing before surgery, whatever the number of grafts placed on the day. UK beard work is widely quoted anywhere from £3,000 to £7,000 depending on graft count, so a fixed fee at this level is deliberately competitive, and it means a bigger plan never carries a penalty.
The fee covers everything attached to the day itself: the surgeon and surgical team, anaesthetic, clinic facilities, aftercare products and your follow-up reviews. What the price includes and how it compares is set out in full on our beard transplant cost page.
How Much Does a Beard Transplant Cost in Wokingham?
Whatever combination of areas your plan covers, the price is the same:
| 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 |
The Procedure, Start to Finish
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?
Typical graft counts by area, matching both the published literature and what the surgeons see in practice:
| 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 |
Healing, Shaving and Results
The healing pattern is predictable. Fine dotted scabbing for the first week or two, mild redness that fades over the following weeks, and a shedding phase between weeks two and eight when the transplanted hairs fall out while the follicles stay put. The two patient photographs here show the difference a fortnight makes: small scabs at each graft the day after surgery, then clear skin with mild redness once they have dropped off at two weeks. New growth begins around month three and the final result settles between nine and twelve months.
The shaving rules are simple: nothing for two weeks, trimming after that, and a normal wet shave from around a month once the grafts are secure. Aftercare products are included in the price, and we have regular monthly check-ins with you to ensure your growth is progressing and offer free 6 & 12 month follow up consultations with your surgeon either by video or in-person.
Beard Transplant After 1 day
Beard Transplant After 2 weeks
Clinic Locations and Travel From Wokingham
Wokingham to London Waterloo is around 1 hour 15 minutes on South Western Railway, and Waterloo sits on the Bakerloo line, one train from Kenton, so the Harrow clinic is a straightforward half day from the market town; with four trains an hour into Reading, going Reading to Paddington and the Bakerloo from there is often quicker still. The Manchester clinic holds the same CQC registration for Wokingham patients, one change at Reading for CrossCountry’s direct train.
Whether home is Dowlesgreen, Bean Oak, Wescott or Eastheath, in the town that was part of Wiltshire until 1844, fresh from a production at Wokingham Theatre in Cantley Park, the 1219 charter market in the Market Place or the heath at California Country Park on Nine Mile Ride, book a free consultation with our trichology team, in person or by video call, and receive a tailored beard plan for Wokingham patients with the fixed £2,899 price confirmed in writing.
From Wokingham to My Hair UK London (Harrow) Clinic
By Train
South Western Railway runs from Wokingham to London Waterloo twice an hour, around 1 hour 15 minutes via Bracknell, Ascot and Richmond, and Great Western adds two an hour to Gatwick and two non-stop to Reading; the station was rebuilt in 2013 around its Grade II listed footbridge of 1886, put up after two people were killed on the level crossing and thought to be the last of its kind in the country. At Waterloo take the Bakerloo line north to Kenton, about 40 minutes, or go Reading to Paddington and join the Bakerloo there, a shorter Underground ride; the Harrow clinic is a five-minute walk from Kenton station, the last leg of the journey from Wokingham.
By Car
Driving from Wokingham takes around an hour. The A329(M) to Junction 10 of the M4, east to the four-level stack at Junction 4B, which is Junction 15 of the M25, one junction clockwise to 16, where the M40 begins and turns into the A40 at Denham within a mile or so; the A40 to Northolt and the A409 north into Harrow and Kenton Lane, so the M25 leg is a single junction long.
From Wokingham to My Hair UK Manchester Clinic
By Train
For Manchester, take any of the four trains an hour to Reading and change once onto CrossCountry’s direct service to Manchester Piccadilly, about 3 hours 15 minutes via Oxford, Birmingham New Street and Stoke, around 3 hours 30 in all. From Piccadilly, cut through Piccadilly Gardens and along Market Street to the top of Deansgate, fifteen to twenty minutes, or ride a tram to Victoria and walk five minutes past the cathedral, and that is the whole journey from Wokingham done.
By Car
By car from Wokingham allow around 3 hours 45 minutes. The M4 east, not west, from Junction 10 to Junction 8/9 at Maidenhead, the only dual-numbered junction in the country, the A404(M) north to the M40, the M40 and M42 round Birmingham to Junction 4 of the M6, the M6 north to Junction 20 at the Lymm interchange, the M56 to the M60 at Northenden and round to Junction 12 for the M602 into Salford, finishing along Trinity Way to the top of Deansgate.
Local GPs
Check with your GP in Wokingham before elective surgery, as some conditions and medications affect how grafts settle; the surgeon will want that history at consultation. Wokingham town has only four NHS practices, so the third here is just over the boundary at Crowthorne:
Finchampstead Practice (Finchampstead Road)
Address: 474 Finchampstead Road, Wokingham RG40 3RG
Wokingham Medical Centre (Rose Street, town centre)
Address: 23 Rose Street, Wokingham RG40 1XS
New Wokingham Road Surgery (Crowthorne)
Address: 18 New Wokingham Road, Crowthorne RG45 6JL
Who Performs the Surgery
Beard transplants are led by a specialist at each clinic: Dr Mir (GMC 7567898) at the London (Harrow) clinic, and Dr Munir (GMC 6122581) at the Manchester clinic. You meet your surgeon at the free video consultation, before any decision is made, and the same surgeon carries out your procedure. 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. What does a beard transplant cost for Wokingham patients?
The price is £2,899, fixed and all-inclusive, however many grafts your plan needs. It covers the surgery, anaesthetic, clinic fees, aftercare products and follow-up reviews, and it is agreed in writing before surgery.
2. Is there a beard transplant clinic in Wokingham?
Surgery for Wokingham patients is carried out at CQC-registered clinics in central Manchester and Harrow, north-west London, rather than in Wokingham itself. Because the procedure is completed in a single day, most patients treat it as one travel day, and everything before and after surgery can be handled by video from home, with the free consultation also available in-person at the clinic if you prefer.
3. Am I suitable for a beard transplant?
Most men with settled growth patterns and a healthy donor area are. Patchy cheeks, thin sideburns and gaps around the chin respond particularly well. The honest answer for your own case comes from the free photographic assessment, and the surgeons do say no when a transplant is not worthwhile.
4. Should I go to Turkey instead for a beard transplant?
Turkey is cheaper, and for some people that decides it. What you give up is straightforward: UK regulation, a surgeon you can be called back to see, and aftercare that does not involve an airport. At £2,899 fixed, the gap is also far smaller for beard work than most patients assume.
5. Can I still shave my head after a beard transplant?
At very short clipper lengths the FUE dot marks in the donor area can show faintly, as with any FUE procedure. At a grade two or longer they are hidden for the vast majority of patients. The beard area itself heals without visible scarring.
6. 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.
7. What aftercare support do I get after a beard transplant?
Aftercare products and instructions on the day, regular monthly check-ins to make sure your growth is progressing, and free follow-up consultations with your surgeon at 6 and 12 months, by video or in-person. For Wokingham patients the routine contact all happens from home.
Beard Transplants Near Wokingham
We arrange beard transplants across the region: see beard transplants for Bracknell patients, beard transplants for Reading patients, beard transplants for Maidenhead patients, beard transplants for Farnborough patients, beard transplants for Slough patients and beard transplants for Farnham patients.
Considering scalp work as well? Our guide to hair transplant costs for Wokingham patients covers prices, graft numbers and travel in the same detail.
If you want a proper answer on your own beard, book a free consultation. It is usually a short video call from home in Wokingham with the surgeon, based on a few photographs (an in-person consultation at the clinic is also available), and you come away knowing whether a transplant is worth it in your case, what it would involve, and the exact fixed price. Nothing is booked unless you choose to go ahead.