Dr. Henrique Machado

Dr Henrique Machado is the founder and clinical director of HM Clinic in Lisbon, Portugal 1. The clinic says (in Portuguese) that it is dedicated only to hair medicine and hair transplants 1. It says his own clinical practice is limited to hair medicine and surgery 1. His bio page says he trained in general and family medicine and began clinical work in hair medicine in 2013 2. It says he has carried out more than 2,000 procedures and hair transplants 2. It says he directed the Clínica Svenson in Lisbon from 2014 to 2018 and the hair area of the Dr. Wells clinics from 2018 to 2023, before founding HM Clinic in 2023 2. The team page names two other doctors, Dra. Sofia Lima and Dra. Fernanda Antoniazzi 3.

The clinic offers FUE for men and women, beard and eyebrow transplants, scar correction and correction of earlier transplants 4. Its men's transplant page says Dr Machado does the initial assessment and later performs the transplant 5. It says grafts are taken one by one with 0.7 or 0.8 mm punches under a regional nerve-block anaesthetic 5. Grafts are implanted with KEEP implanters, and the clinic says it uses PRP in every transplant 5. The FAQ says he is one of few doctors in Portugal experienced in body hair transplants 6. The team page says the assessment, surgery and follow-up are all carried out by doctors 3.

The clinic does not publish prices on its site 5. It offers a free hair transplant assessment 6.

The clinic says its nursing team calls the patient 15 days before surgery 5. The first wash is done at the clinic 1 to 3 days after the transplant 5. Follow-up visits are usually at 7 days and at 3, 6, 12 and 24 months 5.

He is an ISHRS Full Member, and his profile gives 2025 as the year he joined 7. His bio page says he is a founder and vice-president of the Portuguese Society of Aesthetic Medicine (SPME) and heads its trichology group 2. It says he is on the board of the Spanish hair restoration society SERECAP 2.