Dr. Ito Meireles Filho

Dr Ito Meireles Filho is a plastic surgeon in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and the CEO and clinical director of Clínica Fine 1. His site says (in Portuguese) that he specialises in facial surgery and hair restoration 2. It says he was a pioneer of FUE hair transplants in Bahia 2. The site gives his experience variously as 20 and 25 years 2 5. It claims more than 5,000 surgeries in total, of all kinds 2. Clínica Fine also offers general plastic surgery, with a second plastic surgeon on its team 4. His own site lists breast, body, eyelid and facial operations as well 6.

He offers FUE hair transplants, female hair transplants by FUE, and beard and eyebrow transplants 7. The site says he has particular experience with Afro-textured hair in female transplants 1. For beards, it describes a hairline design he calls the "Mountain Top" or Beardline technique 1. The clinic site says he developed the Punching Out technique for treating FUT strip scars 4. The site gives no punch size, implantation tool or anaesthesia details 1.

The site publishes no prices; it says the cost is set after a consultation and assessment 3. Payment is by cash, Pix or credit card 3.

The first consultation, which the clinic calls the "Fine Day", is with Dr Meireles 3. Patients from elsewhere can do the whole process online and travel to Salvador only for surgery 3. The clinic offers an optional concierge service 3. Clínica Fine is at Av. Professor Magalhães Neto 1752, Pituba, Salvador 4.

He is listed as an effective member (Membro efetivo) of the ABCRC, the Brazilian association of hair restoration surgery 8. He is listed as an ISHRS Associate Member 9. His site says he is a full member of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery (SBCP) and an associate professor of the ABCRC 2. It gives his licence as CRM-BA 16994, with plastic surgery specialist registration RQE 7229 1. His site says he wrote a chapter on beard transplants for the Tratado Internacional de Transplante Capilar 2. It says he received an Honorable Mention in 2023 for the Punching Out technique, without naming the awarding body 2.