Dr. Asim Shahmalak

Dr Asim Shahmalak founded Crown Clinic, which has clinics in Manchester and on Harley Street in London 1. His ISHRS profile says he trained as a general surgeon in Ireland and the UK and worked as a hair transplant surgeon for The Hospital Group from 2005 to 2007 2. It says he founded Crown Clinic in 2007 and left the NHS in 2011 to work full-time in hair restoration 2. The clinic describes him as a former NHS general surgeon 3. The Manchester clinic is near Manchester Airport and has its own operating theatre 4.

The clinic says all its surgeries are performed by Dr Shahmalak 1. Its team page lists technicians who work in the operating theatre, including one who takes pride in graft placement 1. The site does not say which steps the technicians carry out 1. The clinic offers FUT and FUE and lists FUT up to 3,000 grafts per session 3. His ISHRS profile gives up to 3,500 grafts per session 2. In FUT, the strip is dissected under microscopes into grafts of 1-4 hairs and multi-unit grafts of 3-5 hairs 5. The surgeon page lists female hair loss, repairs of earlier procedures and Afro-textured hair among his specialties 3. The clinic says he performed the UK's first eyelash transplant and the first same-day eyelash and eyebrow transplant in the UK 3.

The clinic says FUE prices start from £4,000 6. The FUT page also gives a starting price of £4,000 and says the cost depends on the individual treatment plan 7. No graft count is tied to these starting prices 6. The clinic says patients get a personalised quotation after their assessment 6.

The clinic offers free online consultations and in-person consultations from £100 8. It says Dr Shahmalak takes the medical history and examines the patient at the consultation 8. The procedure page says treatment day takes place at the Manchester clinic 5. The London page says he also performs procedures at the Harley Street clinic 9. After surgery the clinic gives a day-by-day aftercare guide and suggests 7-10 days off work 10.

He is an ISHRS Fellow Member, and his profile gives 2006 as the year he joined 2. His ISHRS profile says he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1995 2. The clinic says he is a member of the British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery 3. The GMC register lists him as registered with a licence to practise, with an MB BS from the University of Karachi in 1987 11. He is not on the Specialist Register, and the entry shows no sanctions 11.