Dr. Evgeni Sharkov

Dr. Evgeni Sharkov co-owns VDerm, a clinic in Sofia, Bulgaria 1. The clinic describes itself as working in the field of aesthetic dermatology and hair transplantation 4. Per the clinic, he specializes in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery and graduated from the Medical University of Sofia 1. It also states he has worked in hair transplantation for six years, offering SmartGraft FUE for three of those 1. It credits him with more than 350 hair grafting procedures 5.

VDerm performs hair transplants with SmartGraft, which the clinic describes as automated vacuum extraction of follicles under local anesthesia 2. The clinic states it was the first in Europe to offer the device 4. Its team trained on SmartGraft in the United States 2. Per the clinic, follicles are extracted and implanted one by one, leaving no linear scar unlike the strip method, with no shaving needed beyond a small donor patch 2. Consultation weighs hair and skin colour, hair texture, and family history to judge graft density, and the clinic only recommends surgery when there is a good chance of the desired result 2. Donor harvesting is capped, per the clinic, at up to 15% of total donor hairs 2. Procedures run 4 to 8-10 hours under local anesthesia 2. The clinic states graft survival above 90% 2. Elsewhere it advertises a 95% success rate, without reconciling the two figures 5.

Pricing is per follicle harvested rather than per hair, since a follicle can carry up to four hairs and billing is per follicle 2. No fixed rate or price list is published; each patient receives an individual quote after an in-person consultation with Dr. Sharkov 2.

Booking begins with that consultation, after which pricing is set 2. VDerm operates from two addresses in Sofia, open Monday to Saturday 3. Per the clinic, patients go home the same day, resume normal routine after 48 hours, and wear a headband-style bandage two to three days 2. They are shown on day 2 how to wash the area, with redness and crusting clearing within 7 days 2.

Sharkov's clinic bio lists membership in BULAPRAS, the Bulgarian Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, and ISAPS, the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 1. It also states IAHRS membership, though he does not appear in savemyhairline's registry capture of IAHRS members 1.