Dr. Maria Marta Mattos Zollinger
Plastic and hair surgeon·Instituto Capilar Marta Zollinger
Salvador, Brazil
Background
Dr Maria Marta Mattos Zollinger is a plastic surgeon in Salvador, Brazil, and medical director of the Instituto Capilar Marta Zollinger 2. The institute's site says (in Portuguese) that it is a clinic specialising in hair transplants, in the Hangar Business Park on Avenida Luis Viana 23. Her bio says she graduated in medicine from the Escola Baiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública in 1989 3. It says she has been a specialist in plastic surgery through the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery (SBCP) since December 1995 3. It says she trained in hair surgery in Barcelona in 1996, at Clínica Planas and Clínica Lluria, and that hair transplant has been her area of interest since then 3. The institute's site also lists plastic surgery and facial aesthetic procedures 2. Its pages carry a 2022 copyright date 3.
Procedures and techniques
The site describes FUE, FUT (strip) and a hybrid of the two for larger sessions 4. It says FUE is also used for beard and body hair transplants 4. For FUE, the site says the surgeon removes the follicular units one by one, with a manual or motorised punch of about 0.7 to 1.0 mm 4. For FUT, it says the strip is divided into grafts under the microscope by the clinic's technicians 4. Grafts are placed through micro-incisions made with implanters, needles or blades 4. The site's comparison table gives FUT sessions of 3,500 follicular units or more and FUE sessions of about 2,500 4. A separate page describes the Dr.UGraft ZEUS system for FUE, including for afro-textured hair 6. Her ISHRS profile also lists eyebrow transplants, female hair restoration, facelift hair revision and scar revision among the procedures she performs 5.
Booking and aftercare
Credentials and memberships
ABCRC (Associação Brasileira de Cirurgia da Restauração Capilar) lists her as a Membro titular, with CRM 9999-BA 7. Her ABCRC profile says she has been a member since 2006 and served as the association's secretary in its 2023 board 1. ISHRS lists her as a Full Member who joined in 2025 5. Her site says she is a full member of the SBCP 3.
Sources
Facts on this page were compiled from these pages, checked October 2026. Archived copies are kept for every citation. Something wrong or out of date? Suggest a correction.
- 1. https://www.abcrc.com.br/Portal/Partneria/abcrc/medicos/de2a3f46-e658-4c62-a834-8172dae92c33
- 2. https://martazollinger.com.br/
- 3. https://martazollinger.com.br/dra-marta-zollinger/
- 4. https://martazollinger.com.br/transplante-capilar/
- 5. https://ishrs.org/doctor/maria-marta-mattos-zollinger/
- 6. https://martazollinger.com.br/dr-ugraft-zeus/
- 7. https://www.abcrc.com.br/Portal/Partneria/abcrc/medicos