Lucía Perdomo studied Medicine at the Universidad de la Laguna and after preparing for the MIR in Oviedo, she did a master's degree in capillary medicine, another in aesthetic medicine and worked in several clinics until she was able to set up her own in her town, San Bartolomé.
The clinic is called SIRA, it specializes in aesthetic and capillary medicine, it opened just a year ago, and has been the first to offer hair implants in Lanzarote.
“We are now celebrating our first anniversary, it made us dizzy but in the end, the truth is we are happy. We also had it clear from the beginning that we wanted to set up something here in the town,” Perdomo shares.
The entrepreneur from San Bartolomé opened the clinic with her partner Boris Corujo, who handles the administrative part. A beautician who is in charge of beauty treatments and a doctor specialized in vascular medicine collaborate with them.
“Ours is a very tiny, very down-to-earth clinic, where we like people to feel good and where we treat people as we would like a family member of ours to be treated,” shares the doctor from San Bartolomé.
“When I worked in other clinics they used to tell me ‘Lucía, you don’t know how to sell’ (laughs). I want people to feel comfortable, without pressure, that if they have to undergo a treatment, it should be something worthwhile, noticeable, and very natural and simple, maintaining their identity.”
“Surgery is not the only solution”
The technique Dr. Perdomo uses for hair grafts does not require incisions with a scalpel: “We use the FUE technique (Follicular Unit Extraction by its acronym in English), which is more innovative, less invasive and gives better results,” explains Perdomo.
“It allows for more density, to join the follicles more. These are implants made with a kind of punch, we extract hair from the donor area and then implant it,” she adds.
In the first appointment with the doctor, many patients arrive with the idea of having surgery because they think it is the only solution, but it is not always necessary.
“I always recommend that they first try an oral treatment, plus a treatment with mesotherapy, that is, with injections of very tiny needles into the scalp. This way, many patients do not undergo surgery because they see that the result is optimal,” explains the entrepreneur from San Bartolomé.
“If the goal is to gain more density and slightly improve hair quality, it can be achieved with treatment, surgery is performed in areas where there are no living follicles,” clarifies Perdomo.
How long does it take to see results?
When surgery is involved, “the definitive results are seen after a year in the area of the hairline and a year and a half in the crown, which takes a little longer.”
Perdomo explains that her clients are happy, although she warns that initially the process can be “a bit desperate.”
“The hair that is placed with surgery falls out, it is provisional, and the one that grows is the definitive one. For a while, it looks like you look the same, even worse, but the hair grows little by little until you see that there is more density.”
Perdomo explains that in Lanzarote all her hair transplant patients are men between 25 and 50 years old. “Before, I operated in Andalusia and there I did operate on women, who are becoming more encouraged because it is no longer necessary to shave the entire head as before, but only a small area.”
Turkey and prices
When asked if the trend of going to Turkey for implants is ending, the doctor from San Bartolomé shares, “there are still people, sometimes they have surgery there and come for treatments here in Lanzarote, although it is true that people are becoming a bit more cautious.”
“There are always people who decide to go, when they ask for my opinion I tell them that there are very good clinics in Turkey, because in the end they were the pioneers, but there are also very bad clinics.”
Perdomo explains that surgery in Turkey costs “about a thousand euros less” than the 3,000 to 4,000 euros charged by the SIRA clinic, “depending on the size of the area covered. On the mainland, it is usually a little more expensive than here.”
The SIRA clinic is open on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings and Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
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