Hair transplantation is an aesthetic procedure which requires surgery. The genuine surgeons who perform hair transplants have honed their skills over many years of study and rigourous practice. They adhere to international norms and keep innovating to provide the best service to the patient. What the patient is paying for is a high-end service which is not easy to come by. A hair transplant is far more expensive than a patch, hairpiece or any other alternative. Unless the transplanted hair is in alignment with the other hair on the scalp it will never look natural. This requires a high degree of skill which takes years to acquire. The best hair restoration surgeons are super-specialists who are few and far in between. However, there are several clinics which offer cheaper procedures which performed by quacks and non-qualified doctors who claim to be hair surgeons. Sometimes even hair technicians who work as assistants to the surgeon take up surgeries. So, when such people perform the surgery, they compromise on the safety of patients, they over harvest the donor areas, they end up causing excessive scarring and the end result is a botched-up surgery leaving the patient with a poor-quality transplant and poorer in the wallet too.