Dr. Tamas Mantse
Founding member and lead doctor·ProHAIR Hair Transplant Clinic
Budapest, Hungary
€1,500 Patient reported, Mar 2025 · Cost detailsBackground
Dr Tamas Mantse is the founding member and lead doctor of the ProHAIR hair transplant clinic in Budapest, Hungary, a role his bio dates from 2007 1. From 2001 to 2007 he held the same role at the Atlantik clinic in Budapest, per the same bio 1. His ISHRS profile says he started in hair transplantation in 1986 in Ottawa, Canada, assisting his father, Dr Lefter Mantse 2. It says he performs only hair transplants in his clinic 2. The clinic presents him as a Canadian doctor with more than 30 years of experience 3. The ISHRS profile says a second clinic opened in Porlamar, Venezuela, in 2010, and the site still lists an address there 23.
Procedures and techniques
His ISHRS profile says he has performed strip surgery and FUE since 2008, and since mid-2008 a technique he calls the No Look Hair Transplant (NLHT) 2. The clinic says it developed NLHT and is the only clinic that performs it 3. Its NLHT page repeats the FUE text and does not describe the technique 4. The clinic says FUE grafts are taken one at a time with a 0.8 mm to 1.0 mm punch 5. Its strip procedure page says the physician makes the recipient sites, while trained nurses take part in the long procedure 6. The same page says patients need not cut their hair short 6. The Hungarian FAQ says the doctor personally prepares the plan and chooses the recipient areas 7.
Pricing
Booking and aftercare
The site offers an online consultation form 3. The Hungarian FAQ says the first consultation includes a scalp examination, a detailed medical history and hair density measurement 7. It says a procedure takes 5 to 8 hours and a second session can follow after at least 6 months 7. The strip procedure page says patients return the next day for hair washing 6. Whether consultations are free is not stated 7.
Credentials and memberships
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 Something wrong or out of date?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://prohairklinika.hu/dr-mantse-tamas/
- 2. https://ishrs.org/doctor/49824
- 3. https://prohairklinika.hu/en/
- 4. https://prohairklinika.hu/en/nlht-hair-transplantation/
- 5. https://prohairklinika.hu/en/fue-hair-transplantation/
- 6. https://prohairklinika.hu/en/hair-transplantation/
- 7. https://prohairklinika.hu/kerdesek-es-valaszok/
What patients say on reddit
10 people shared their experience with Dr. Tamas Mantse across 23 reddit threads between 2022 and 2026. Every graft count, price and verdict is linked to the original thread.
- male NW4 3,000 grafts surgery 2022
- zero donor scarring source ↗
- surgeon did every step himself source ↗
- natural, age-appropriate hairline source ↗
- surgeon answered weekly progress updates for a year source ↗
- significant shock loss and long scabbing source ↗
- many ingrown hairs at 7 months source ↗
Nomdeplum73 reports a transplant with Dr. Mantse at PROHAIR in Budapest in 2022, about 3,000 grafts by manual-punch FUE over two long days, starting from Norwood 4; the price is not stated beyond an initial quote of 3600 or 3800 euro for 3000 FUE and 'similar pricing to the Turkish clinics (below 3,000 EUR)'. He describes pain, months of recovery, significant shock loss, long scabbing and ingrown hairs around month 7, with results only noticeable from about month 6. Across updates from 6 to 16 months he calls the hairline natural, reports zero donor scarring, and says he 'couldn’t be happier with the results'; he later added scalp micropigmentation separately for density.
12 threads they wrote in
- Jul 2025 Got a haircut. I can see the scarring. Thoughts? ↗
- Jun 2025 My before/after - NW4 in 2022 ↗
- Oct 2024 Do you have scarring on your recipient area? ↗
- May 2024 Thomas Mantse - PROHAIR Klinika in Budapest update ↗
- Dec 2023 Dr. Thomas Mantse - Prohair Klinika in Budapest, Hungary ↗
- Dec 2023 My Transplant + SMP Journey ↗
- May 2023 Prohair Klinika Budapest (Dr. Mantse) 10 month update ↗
- Feb 2023 Prohair Klinika Budapest (Dr. Matse) 7 month update ↗
- Aug 2022 Day 10 - slowly removing scabs? ↗
- Aug 2022 Prohair Klinika (Dr. Matse) in Budapest, Hungary. ↗
- Mar 2022 Any reviews on Dr. Mantse of Prohair in Budapest? ↗
- Mar 2022 Any reviews of opinions on Sikos Clinic in Hungary? ↗
- male 3,000 grafts surgery 2024
- doctor did the planting himself source ↗
- in daily contact with doctor during recovery source ↗
- impressed with results at 11-12 months source ↗
- gave 100% recommendation source ↗
BusDriver-9604, from Norway, had a 3000-graft DHI with Tamas Mantse in 2024, done over three days; he wanted a doctor rather than assistants doing the work. He says an assistant helped with the first 1000 extractions and after that only the doctor and he were in the room. He reports being in touch with Mantse daily during healing, with new growth from about 3 months. At 11-12 months he wrote "I was impressed with the results" and elsewhere gave a "100% recommendation"; one commenter said the hairline seemed a bit pointy, which he said was what he wanted. No price is stated.
5 threads they wrote in
- 3,000 grafts
- very happy with results one year later source ↗
- easy to reach, even on WhatsApp source ↗
- very generous with time after surgery source ↗
- repaired hairline from 2015 has stayed source ↗
- strict and sometimes blunt source ↗
- days in bed are long source ↗
Gorper42 had two procedures with Dr. Thomas Mantse of Prohair Klinika: 1500 grafts to the hairline and 500 to the crown in 2015, then 3000 grafts up top, making 5000 to date. At one year after the second they wrote "I am very happy with the results!" and said the 2015 hairline repair has held. They describe Dr. M as easy to reach, very generous with his time after surgery, strict in his instructions and sometimes blunt. They call the procedure not painful but the days in bed long, and are considering a further procedure in summer 2025. No price is stated.
8 threads they wrote in
- Sept 2024 Dr. Thomas Mantse - Prohair Klinika ↗
- Apr 2024 I am now using a brush! ↗
- Dec 2023 Dr. Thomas Mantse - Prohair Klinika in Budapest, Hungary ↗
- Oct 2023 6 months results - of 2nd HT (with timeline) ↗
- May 2023 Prohair Klinika Budapest (Dr. Mantse) 10 month update ↗
- Jun 2022 Currently looking at HTs in Hungary, namely HairPalace, ProHair, and HairHungary. Has anyone got any experience? ↗
- Mar 2022 Any reviews on Dr. Mantse of Prohair in Budapest? ↗
- Mar 2022 Any reviews of opinions on Sikos Clinic in Hungary? ↗
- 2,000 grafts
- completely satisfied with his work source ↗
- amazed with results source ↗
- surgeon passionate about his work source ↗
- friends attended without complications source ↗
Patient3292 is a past patient of Dr Tamas Mantse at ProHair Klinika in Budapest and commented in several threads, giving 2000 grafts in one. They said they were "completely satisfied with his work" and "just amazed with my results", and that three friends also attended without complications. They relayed his advice not to pick scabs and said it shows how passionate he is about his work.
6 threads they wrote in
- Dec 2023 Dr. Thomas Mantse - Prohair Klinika in Budapest, Hungary ↗
- Oct 2023 6 months results - of 2nd HT (with timeline) ↗
- May 2023 Prohair Klinika Budapest (Dr. Mantse) 10 month update ↗
- Feb 2023 Prohair Klinika Budapest (Dr. Matse) 7 month update ↗
- Aug 2022 Day 10 - slowly removing scabs? ↗
- Mar 2022 Any reviews on Dr. Mantse of Prohair in Budapest? ↗
- male 1,600 grafts surgery 2022
- surgeon difficult to talk to, doesn't listen source ↗
- results lacked density source ↗
- hairline dead straight, not what I asked source ↗
- recovery and healing surprisingly easy source ↗
He had 1600 grafts over two days from Dr. Mantse at ProHair in Budapest in April 2022. At 12 months he called it a bad experience and a bad result, saying the surgeon did not listen, the density was lacking and the hairline was straight rather than the jagged one he asked for. He said recovery was surprisingly easy, and advised others not to go to Mantse. He later had a second transplant of 3000 grafts in Istanbul and was happy with it.
3 threads they wrote in
- male 2,500 grafts
IdealStrong3357 had two hair transplants with Dr Thomas Mantse at PROHAIR Clinic Budapest, 2500 grafts each time; no price is given. One year after the second procedure he wrote 'I am over the moon with my results' and that he was now using a comb and was really happy. Commenters in that thread criticised the photo quality and the look of the hairline, and others accused the post of being an ad, which he did not accept.
2 threads they wrote in
- Apr 2024 I am now using a brush! ↗
- Oct 2023 6 months results - of 2nd HT (with timeline) ↗
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Proud_Practice_7466 compared four Budapest clinics in March 2025 and was quoted EUR 1,500 for 1,000 grafts (EUR 1.5 per graft) at Pro Hair Klinica with Dr. Tamas Mantse. They decided not to go with this clinic or doctor and gave no reason, and had no surgery with him, so there is no experience to report.
1 thread they wrote in
- Mar 2025 Hair Transplant in Hungary ↗
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In comments, this person says Dr. Mantse messed them up, and in 2022 told another poster not to touch this butcher and to ignore the positive reviews as most likely paid. They give no graft count, price, date or details of what went wrong.
2 threads they wrote in
- Apr 2024 I am now using a brush! ↗
- Mar 2022 Any reviews on Dr. Mantse of Prohair in Budapest? ↗
- 3,200 grafts
- couldn't be happier with results source ↗
In a March 2022 comment, this person says they could not be happier with the results of their 3200-graft transplant with Dr. Mantse at ProHair. They give no price, date or technique.
1 thread they wrote in
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- Super satisfied with the result in retrospect source ↗
OkPresentation5235 commented in March 2022, in a thread about Dr. Tamas Mantse of Prohair in Budapest, that in retrospect they are super satisfied with the result. No graft count, price or date is given.
1 thread they wrote in