Dr. Thomas Doo

Dr Thomas Doo is one of the two surgeons at the New Zealand Hair Transplantation Institute in Freemans Bay, Auckland, with Dr Garsing Wong 1. The clinic says both doctors live and work full-time in Auckland and perform all its hair transplants themselves 1. He graduated in medicine from the University of Auckland in 1989 4. He is a Fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 41. The clinic says he also holds qualifications in law and accounting 1. It says he and Dr Wong were among the first New Zealand-born doctors to bring FUE to New Zealand 1.

The clinic offers fully shaved FUE, partial-shave FUE and long-hair (no-shave) FUE 2. It says the two surgeons do the donor harvesting and graft placement themselves, using implanters 1. It says it uses the Trivellini multiphasic FUE system for long-hair FUE 1. It also offers beard, moustache and eyebrow transplants 2.

The clinic lists hair transplants starting from $5700 (New Zealand dollars) for its minimum procedure of 400 follicular units 2. It says prices include GST, the operating theatre fee and the set follow-up consultations 2. It gives no price for 3,000 grafts 2.

A face-to-face consultation is needed before booking surgery 2. The consultation costs 150 New Zealand dollars 3. The clinic says quotes are valid for six months 2. It lists English, Cantonese, Mandarin and German as the languages its surgeons speak 1.

He is an ISHRS Full Member and joined the society in 2019 5. The Medical Council of New Zealand lists him as practising, with a vocational scope in General Practice and no conditions 4. The clinic says he is also a Fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care and a member of the World FUE Institute 1.