Dr. Cristina Sayuri Nakano

Dr Cristina Sayuri Nakano is a plastic surgeon on the medical team of Clínica Speranzini in São Paulo, Brazil 1. The clinic's site (in Portuguese) says she graduated in medicine from the Faculdade de Santo Amaro (Unisa) in 2004 1. It says she did her residency in general and plastic surgery at the Hospital dos Defeitos da Face of the Brazilian Red Cross, and holds the plastic surgery specialist title of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery 1. It says she began working in hair transplantation in 2014 1. It says she joined Grupo Speranzini in 2016 and has performed more than 1,300 hair transplant surgeries there 1. The clinic describes itself as focused only on hair transplantation (scalp, beard and eyebrows) and otoplasty 2. It is led by plastic surgeon Dr. Mauro Speranzini 2.

The clinic offers hair, beard and eyebrow transplants, plus non-surgical hair treatment (trichology) 3. Its transplant page describes FUE with the clinic's own "FUE Evolution com DNI" technique, developed by Dr. Mauro Speranzini 4. Her bio says she specialised in this technique 1. The clinic says all transplant surgeries are done by two doctors, a lead surgeon and a surgeon specialised in placing the follicles, with a technical team 2. It does not say which role she takes in a given case 2. The transplant page says surgery takes 7 to 10 hours on average, under local anaesthesia with light sedation 4. It says up to 3,500 follicular units can be moved in one session, depending on the donor area 4. It recommends a full head shave, but says the transplant can also be done without shaving 4. When the scalp donor area is small, follicles can be taken from the beard or chest 4. The page gives 26 as the age from which a transplant is indicated 4. Surgery takes place at the clinic's Pinheiros unit or its Perdizes day hospital 45.

The clinic's site publishes no prices 4.

Consultations are booked through the clinic 4. The transplant page says most patients return to normal activities 2 days after surgery 4. It says the surgeon and team follow patients for 10 to 12 months in periodic visits until the final result 4.

She is listed as a Membro aspirante, the junior tier, of the ABCRC (Associação Brasileira de Cirurgia da Restauração Capilar), with CRM registration 115912-SP 6. The clinic's site says she has been an active ABCRC member since 2015 1. It says she co-authored an article on follicular unit extraction published in the book "Practical Guide to Hair Transplantation" 1.