Dr. Paul Cotterill

Dr Paul Cotterill runs a private practice limited to hair restoration, with its main office in Toronto and a satellite office in St. John's, Newfoundland 1. He says he has limited his practice solely to hair transplantation since 1986 2. The site says he studied at McGill University and the University of Toronto, did two years of orthopaedic surgery residency, then trained with Dr Walter Unger 3. It says he is a past president of the ISHRS and an Out Of Hospital Premise Inspector for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, assessing hair restoration clinics 3.

The practice mainly does strip surgery with follicular unit grafting, closed with the Trichophytic Closure technique, and FUE when appropriate 1. Dr Cotterill says he removes the donor strip, sutures the donor area and makes all the recipient sites; his nurses and assistants prepare the strip and help plant the grafts after he has made the sites 2. He says he performs only one operation at a time 2. For FUE, he says he cuts each donor graft himself, using 0.8 mm to 1.0 mm punches 2. He says FUE suits certain select cases but is "not appropriate for full, large sessions" 2. Every graft is dissected under stereoscopic microscopes 2. A procedure takes 4 to 8 hours 4.

He charges per area per session, not per graft 5. A full session of 2,500 to 3,000+ follicular units costs CAD 6,500 to 10,500 plus taxes 5. A front half plus crown in one session, 3,500 to 5,000 follicular units, costs CAD 10,500 to 12,000 plus taxes 5. Smaller sessions such as scar revision, eyebrows or beards cost CAD 2,500 to 6,500, with a minimum fee of CAD 2,500 5. The exact fee is set after he has seen the patient 5.

The consultation page is titled "Free Hair Restoration Consultations" 6. He says he sees every patient himself and spends 45 minutes to an hour with each, without non-medical consultants 2. In-person consultation in Toronto is preferred; a virtual consultation with photos is possible 6. After surgery, patients are seen the next day and at one week, called at one and six months, and seen again at one year 2.

Registry records list him as an ABHRS diplomate 7. He is an ISHRS Fellow Member, listed at 21 Bedford Road, Toronto 8. The site says he became an ISHRS Fellow in 2012 and received the ISHRS Golden Follicle Award 3. His ISHRS profile says he has served on the ABHRS Board of Directors and as an examiner, and is a member of the Canadian Society of Hair Restoration Surgery 8.