How this directory is compiled
A directory is only worth citing if you can check how it was built and who paid for it. This page answers both, in that order.
What gets listed
Three criteria, applied identically to every company. A supplier is eligible if it is an active business, makes or distributes products that are actually used in hair restoration surgery, and has a verifiable public web presence that lets a third party check the basic facts. Nothing is paid for and nothing can be bought — there is no sponsored placement, no premium tier and no mechanism by which a company can influence whether or how it appears.
We do not list companies whose only presence is a marketplace storefront or a reseller page on someone else's site, because there is nothing stable to verify against. Suggestions for inclusion are welcome and are assessed on the same three criteria as everything already here.
What we record, and what we refuse to
Every listing carries the same fields: company name, country and city, website, company type (manufacturer, distributor or both), product categories, any certifications we can attribute, a short factual description, the sources we compiled it from, and the date we last checked.
There are no ratings, no scores, no reviews and no rankings — not because they would be hard to produce, but because we have no defensible basis for them. We have not tested these companies' products against one another, so any score we published would be an opinion dressed as data. The default order is alphabetical everywhere; the optional sorts are by country and by how recently we re-checked a listing. Neither says anything about quality.
Every company in the directory renders in an identical card, with the same fields, in the same order rules. There is no code path that gives any listing different visual treatment — including the listing of any company connected to us.
How certifications are recorded
This is the part most likely to be misread, so it is worth being precise. A certification badge on this site has two possible states, and they mean very different things.
We followed a public register to a specific record: a notified body certificate reference, a EUDAMED registration, or an FDA 510(k) K-number. The evidence link is published on the profile so you can repeat the check yourself.
The company states the certification on its own website and we have recorded that statement. We have not seen the certificate. It may well be accurate — but it is a claim, not a check, and it is labelled as one.
Where a company advertises “CE” without indicating whether the mark is self-declared under Class I or issued by a notified body under Regulation (EU) 2017/745, we record no CE entry at all rather than guess. Understating a company is unfair; overstating a regulatory claim on its behalf is worse, and could mislead a buyer into skipping a check they should be doing. If we have your certificate reference wrong, or missing, send it and we will correct the record.
- CE (MDR)
- CE marking under Regulation (EU) 2017/745, issued by a notified body. Applies to devices above Class I.
- ISO 13485
- A quality-management-system certification for medical device organisations. It certifies the process, not any individual device.
- FDA 510(k)
- US clearance to market a device as substantially equivalent to a legally marketed predicate. Carries a K-number.
- CE (self-declared)
- Self-declared CE conformity, permitted for Class I devices without notified-body involvement. Not the same as a notified-body certificate.
A fuller explanation of what these marks do and do not tell a buyer is in CE, MDR, ISO 13485 and FDA: what hair transplant equipment certifications actually mean.
Sources and re-verification
Every profile publishes the URLs its facts came from. Anything we could not attribute to one of those sources was left out rather than inferred — which is why some listings are shorter than others, and why a short listing is not a judgement about the company.
Listings are re-checked on a 90-day cycle, and each one shows the date it was last checked. When a re-check finds that a company has changed its product lines, moved, or added a certification, the entry is updated and the date advances. When a company appears to have ceased trading, the listing is removed rather than left to rot.
Outbound links
Every profile links to the supplier's own website, because a directory that does not send you to the source is not doing its job. Listings we compiled without the company's involvement link out with rel="nofollow ugc": we wrote the entry from public pages and are not in a position to vouch for the destination. A company that claims its listing and confirms its details can have that upgraded to a followed link.
Ownership and funding disclosure
This directory is not published by a disinterested party. It is maintained by the editorial team behind Hair Transplant Source, which is affiliated with Garry Medical, a company active in this industry. Hair Transplant Source also has a disclosed commercial relationship with Bind Pharma, set out in full on our editorial disclosure page.
We are telling you this at the top rather than in a footnote because you would find it out eventually, and a conflict of interest you discover for yourself is worth far less to us than one we declared. Any company connected to us appears in this directory under exactly the same rules as every other listing: same card, same fields, same alphabetical position, no badge and no editorial preference. If you ever find that is not true, it is a bug and we want the report.
Nothing in this directory is paid placement. No company has paid, or can pay, to be listed, to rank, to be described differently, or to have a competitor excluded.
What this directory is not
It is not a recommendation, an endorsement, or a substitute for supplier qualification. Inclusion means a company exists and makes products in scope — nothing more. Regulatory status, product lines and company details change faster than any 90-day cycle can track, so treat every field as a starting point for your own checks rather than a finding you can rely on. Information is compiled from public sources and provided as-is, without warranty.
The practical checks worth running before you place an order are set out in how to vet a hair transplant instrument supplier.
Corrections, inclusion requests and press
Corrections are the fastest way to improve this list and we would rather hear about an error than have it sit there. Include a public URL supporting the correction where you can — it lets us update the entry the same day rather than opening a research thread.
Directory currently lists 12 suppliers. Journalists and researchers are welcome to cite or reproduce it with attribution to https://www.hairtransplantsource.com/suppliers.