Dr. Anastasios Vekris

Dr Anastasios Vekris is a plastic surgeon and the founder and scientific director of Advanced Hair Clinics 1. He also directs the Cosmetic Derma Medicine medical group in Athens 1. His main office is at 5 Konstantinou Ventiri Street, Ilisia, Athens 2. The group lists further offices across Greece, in Limassol and Nicosia in Cyprus, and in San José, Costa Rica 2. His bio says he trained in general and plastic surgery at the University Hospital of Ioannina and the Latseio Burns Centre in Athens 1. It says he trained in hair restoration under Dr J.C. Kim in South Korea and in London and San Francisco 1. It says he was previously scientific director of the DHI International Medical Group 1.

The group performs FUE, including unshaven, long-hair and Afro hair FUE 3. It also lists beard and eyebrow transplants, body hair as a donor source and repair of strip scars 4. It says it implants grafts in one step, without making recipient holes first 4. It says its team can place more than 3,000 grafts in an 8-hour day 4. The group says all sessions are performed under Dr Vekris's supervision 4. Its Greek site says the procedures are carried out by his team 3. It does not say which steps he does himself 4. The site gives different case totals for him and his team, from 6,000 to 30,000 134.

The group does not publish procedure prices 4. It says cost depends on session length, the number of grafts, earlier strip scars and whether the session is unshaven 4. Its contact page says a medical visit costs from €50 2.

The group's site offers a contact form and an appointment form 2. Its Greek site says surgeons, nurses and advisers keep in touch with patients for 12 months after surgery 3. The Athens phone number is +30 210 6980451 2.

The ISHRS lists him as a Full Member, a member since 2008 5. His bio says he is president of the FUE Europe society 1. It says he is a member of HESPRAS, the Greek plastic surgery society, and of IPRAS 1. It says he is on the specialist register of the UK General Medical Council 1.