Dr. Ahmed Mekkawy

About Dr. Ahmed Mekkawy

Dr. Ahmed Mekkawy is a consultant plastic surgeon and hair transplant specialist at HairX Clinics, and one of the medical reviewers behind the guides published on this site. His focus in a transplant is the part patients notice for the rest of their lives: a hairline that reads as natural in direction, angle and irregularity, and a graft count worked out for the individual case.

What he works on at HairX

• FUE, DHI and Sapphire hair transplantation
• Natural hairline design — angle, direction and deliberate irregularity
• Beard and eyebrow transplantation
• Planning multi-session cases where the donor area cannot cover everything at once

What your consultation looks like

The examination looks at the donor area under magnification, grades the pattern of loss, and sets out what a single session can realistically cover. The hairline is drawn on your head and adjusted with you before anything is agreed. Where expectations and the available donor hair do not match, that gap is discussed in the room rather than discovered afterwards.

FUE, DHI and Sapphire: how the technique is chosen

All three techniques used at HairX move individual follicular units from the donor area at the back and sides of the head to the areas that have thinned. They differ in how the grafts are placed. In FUE, the grafts are extracted one by one and placed into small channels that are opened beforehand. In DHI, each graft is loaded into an implanter pen and placed directly, so extraction and implantation are closer together and the surrounding hair can often be kept longer. In the Sapphire method, the channels are opened with sapphire blades, which allows a finer incision and closer placement where density is the priority.

For Dr. Mekkawy the choice follows from the hairline plan. Where the front needs single-hair grafts placed at a precise angle and direction, he weighs how closely the grafts must sit and how much the patient wants to avoid shaving, and the technique is proposed on that basis. It is explained in the consultation, together with why an alternative was not chosen, so the decision is one you understand rather than one you are handed.

Seeing the result before you book: the 12-month AI preview

Before any consultation, in person or online, you can use the free AI hair analysis on this site. You upload five photographs of your scalp, taken in daylight with dry, unstyled hair: the front, both sides, the crown from above and the donor area at the back. The report shows how your hair could look at day one, month three, month six and month twelve, rendered on your own photographs rather than on a stock model, and it estimates the number of grafts each zone would need: hairline, temples, frontal area, mid-scalp and crown, each with its own figure and a total. You keep it as a PDF whether or not you ever contact the clinic.

The preview is a planning aid, not a diagnosis. Photographs show that donor hair is present, but they cannot measure how many follicles per square centimetre are really there, and that number sets the ceiling on every plan. They also cannot tell whether the loss has stopped. Dr. Mekkawy reads the report as a starting point for the conversation and checks it against the examination, which is where the graft count is confirmed or corrected.

Booking and follow-up

Dr. Mekkawy sees patients at HairX in New Cairo, Giza and Beni Suef, Open daily, 10:00–23:59. International patients can begin with the free AI hair analysis on this site, which produces a per-zone graft estimate and a visual timeline at day 1, month 3, month 6 and month 12, and then continue with an online consultation. Accommodation and transfers can be arranged, and first-month follow-up is offered in person or online.