At the Hair Transplant Centre Toronto, Dr. Bailey, a double- board-certified Dermatologist will be doing the bulk of your hair transplant procedure. Overseas there may be one doctor for every ten patients. As you can imagine the attention to detail, careful selection of good follicular units to implant, and design of the hairline can become compromised. Furthermore, from a safety standpoint only a medical doctor should be injecting your local anesthetic. Only a medical doctor has the knowledge to safely administer local anesthetic. Too much local anesthetic or incorrectly placed local anesthetic can lead to toxicity and even death.
In Ontario, any clinic performing hair transplants must be an approved out of hospital facility. This means that the clinic must abide by the same standards as a hospital in Ontario when it comes to sterilization of instruments and equipment, maintaining a sterile environment, ensuring quality of care, proper maintenance of equipment, and HVAC systems among other things. They also ensure every staff member has the life saving skills required to resuscitate a patient if needed. These very strict criteria are set out by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to ensure the safety of patients in our province. The main goal of these standards is to prevent blood-borne illnesses such as Hepatitis C and HIV in addition to lowering the rate of infection, adverse events, and death. Our Hair Transplant Centre Toronto performs surgeries at FCP Dermatology which is an approved out-of-hospital premise in Ontario. Hair transplant centers overseas are not subject to these same regulations.