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Dr. Sharon Keene

Founder and lead surgeon·Physician's Hair Institute

United States

Background

Physician's Hair Institute, led by Dr. Sharon Keene, operates in Tucson and Scottsdale, Arizona 1. The clinic states she is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery 6. The clinic states she entered hair restoration in the early 1990s, when the standard "punch and plug" method produced what she described as a "dolls hair" appearance rather than naturalness, and that she set out to develop more natural, scientifically grounded techniques 2.

Procedures and techniques

The clinic offers FUT, FUE, and a combination of both, alongside non-surgical options such as medication, PRP, and scalp micropigmentation 1. Per the clinic, Dr. Keene is the only person who makes any excision or incision, with her team assisting rather than performing, and she is the primary person placing grafts 5. For FUT she uses a trichophytic closure when elasticity allows, overlapping incision edges so hair grows through the scar line 3. For FUE her main tool is the WAW device, combining oscillation and rotation to limit transection, alongside a S.A.F.E. dull-excision device chosen for some patients 3. Larger cases can be split across two consecutive days, taking the donor strip from one side on day one and the other on day two, allowing up to 4,000-5,000 grafts against a single-day cap around 3,000 8. Candidates are described as reasonably healthy with significant thinning or recession, generally 25 or older, with graft counts planned against densities from roughly 20 per cm2 up to 35-40 for a denser result, adjusted for hair color and caliber 5.

Pricing

Pricing is per graft on a sliding scale: $3 to $5 for FUT and $3.50 to $7 for FUE depending on graft numbers, with a $500 travel discount for out-of-state patients 5. The clinic states it gives a full cost breakdown during the first conversation 4.

Booking and aftercare

The clinic offers a free, no-obligation consultation personally evaluated by Dr. Keene 7. It states this can be done by telephone so patients get her recommendations without an in-person visit 1.

Credentials and memberships

Dr. Keene is a Fellow member of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, and the clinic states she also holds an honorary membership in the Italian Society of Hair Restoration Surgery 2. She is listed with the International Alliance of Hair Restoration Surgeons 9.

Sources

Facts on this page were compiled from these pages, checked July 2026. Archived copies are kept for every citation.

  1. 1. https://hairrestore.com/
  2. 2. https://hairrestore.com/credentials/
  3. 3. https://hairrestore.com/techniques/
  4. 4. https://hairrestore.com/fue/
  5. 5. https://hairrestore.com/faq/
  6. 6. https://hairrestore.com/hair-transplant/
  7. 7. https://hairrestore.com/contact/
  8. 8. https://hairrestore.com/megasessions/
  9. 9. https://www.iahrs.org/hair-transplant/sharon-keene

What patients say on reddit

15 people shared their experience with Dr. Sharon Keene across 18 reddit threads between 2016 and 2026. Every graft count, price and verdict is linked to the original thread.

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