Dr. Alejandro Santana

Dr Alejandro Santana is medical director of Clínica Capilar Élite, and the clinic says (in Spanish) that he leads its medical team 12. The team page says he has performed more than 1,000 procedures over his career 2. The clinic has two sites in Mexico City, in Santa Fe and Pedregal, and one in Juriquilla, Querétaro 34. The site does not say at which clinic he operates 4. His ISHRS listing gives a San Diego, California address as primary and the clinic's Santa Fe address in Mexico City as alternate, and links the clinic's website 5. The clinic site does not mention a US office 1. It does not state his medical degree, training or how long he has practised hair surgery 2.

The clinic offers hair transplants, including an unshaven technique that it says needs no shaving of the recipient area or the whole head 6. It also offers beard and eyebrow transplants and regenerative treatments 6. His ISHRS listing adds body hair transplantation, burned scalp reconstruction, ethnic hair, female hair restoration and FUE 5. The clinic says it uses an AI tool called Scalp Scan to measure the affected area and estimate the number of follicular units needed before surgery 6. It describes an extraction device with a suction system that it says is close to the manual technique 7. It says its graft preservation is backed by BioLife Solutions 7. The team page lists several specialists described as performing graft procedures, and does not say which surgical steps Dr Santana performs himself 2.

The clinic publishes no prices 6.

The clinic says every treatment starts with an in-depth clinical diagnosis 1. It does not say whether the consultation is free or who conducts it 1. It says its follow-up is not limited to 12 months and will continue as long as the patient wants to keep their hair 6.

He is an ISHRS Full Member, a member since 2024 per his listing 5. He appears in the FUE Europe member directory as a trichologist and hair transplant surgeon 8. The clinic's certifications page also lists the World Trichology Society, the World FUE Institute, CILAD, SILATC and the International Trichoscopy Society 9. The clinic gives his professional licence (cédula) number as 13463634; it has not been checked against the Mexican register 3.