Dr. Alfonso Barrera

Dr Alfonso Barrera is a plastic surgeon at West Houston Plastic Surgery, 915 Gessner Road, Houston, Texas 12. The practice says he has been in private practice in Houston since 1985 3. It says he is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology 3. It lists seven years of surgical training at Methodist Hospital in Dallas, Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals and St. Joseph Hospital in Houston 3. The hair transplant page says he has spent much of the past two decades on hair transplantation 1. The practice offers general plastic surgery, and a second surgeon, Dr Eric Ruff, also consults on hair transplants 4.

The practice offers FUT and FUE, women's hair transplants, and reconstructive hair transplants after burns, accidents, birth defects or tumour removal 546. It also corrects hairline and sideburn loss after facelifts 7. The practice says Dr Barrera places every graft himself 16. It says he often does 1,500 to 2,500 grafts in one session 1. It says he works under IV sedation and local anaesthesia 1. The page says recipient sites are made with small Sharpoint blades 1. The reconstructive page says the donor strip is usually about one centimetre wide 6. The practice says he has written a textbook on hair transplantation 3.

The practice publishes no price of its own 5. The men's page gives only a general statement on what hair transplants cost on average 5.

Dr Barrera assesses patients in the office or from good-quality photos sent by email 1. The hair transplant page recommends waiting at least 10 months, ideally a year, before a second session 1.

He is an ISHRS Full Member, a member since 1994 per his listing 2. The practice says he is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons 3.