Dr. Mauro Speranzini

Dr Mauro Speranzini is a plastic surgeon and the founder of Clínica Speranzini in São Paulo, Brazil 12. The clinic names him as its technical-medical director and says he leads its medical team 2. The clinic's site (in Portuguese) says he graduated from the medical school of the University of São Paulo (USP) 1. It says he wrote a master's thesis on correcting prominent ears at the USP plastic surgery department 1. It says he has more than 30 years of experience in hair transplant and otoplasty 1. The clinic's history page says his practice began in São Paulo in 1997 and that he then turned mainly to otoplasty and hair transplantation 2. It says he began training surgeons in his transplant techniques in 2013 2. The clinic describes itself as focused only on hair transplantation (scalp, beard and eyebrows) and otoplasty 2.

The clinic offers hair, beard and eyebrow transplants, non-surgical hair treatment (trichology) and otoplasty 3. It says he developed its "FUE Evolution com DNI" transplant technique and its "Oto Definitiva" ear technique 2. His bio says he was the first to work with the DNI (Dull Needle Implanter) 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. The site lists seven doctors and does not say which cases he operates on himself 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.

The ISHRS lists him as a Fellow Member who joined in 2003, at the clinic's Pinheiros address 6. He is Treasurer on the ISHRS Board of Governors for 2025-2026 8. His ISHRS profile says he was president of the Brazilian Society of Hair Restoration Surgery in 2017-18 6. The clinic's site says the same, naming the ABCRC (Associação Brasileira de Cirurgia da Restauração Capilar) 1. The ISHRS names him as the 2021 winner of its O'Tar Norwood award for the best Hair Transplant Forum International article, for "Forty Steps to Harvest a Graft", co-written with Dr Solon Eduardo Gouveia Souza 7. The clinic's site says he is a full member of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery 1. The site gives his medical and specialist registration numbers 1.