Antonio Conte's Hair Transplant

Back in 2011, Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney sent the tabloids into overdrive when he underwent a hair transplant. Rooney’s hair transplant was, perhaps, the most high profile in football history. However, it was far from the first. Footballers have been receiving hair transplants for decades. Italian midfielder Antonio Conte holds the distinction of being one of the very first to do so.

Who Is Antonio Conte?

Antonio Conte is best known to younger football fans for his time managing Premier League team Chelsea F.C. Prior to his managerial work, however, Conte carved out a nice career for himself as a midfielder.

Playing for the Italian international team, Conte scored a breathtaking bicycle kick in Italy’s Euro 2000 game against Turkey. Around this same time, the midfielder’s hairline was a topic of conversation. Despite still being a young man, Conte was losing his hair at a rapid pace. This inspired the first of what would become (supposedly) several hair transplants for the footballer.

Conte’s First Hair Transplant

It is suspected that Conte’s initial hair transplant took place some time in 2000. Pictures from the period support this, with the former Chelsea manager going from almost totally bald to flowing locks in the space of a few weeks.

Unfortunately for Conte, hair transplants were still in their infancy around this time. There were many kinks still to be worked out, with few clinics offering the lifetime guarantee that is now commonplace. By 2007, Conte’s receding hairline had returned with a vengeance. He briefly took to shaving his head in an attempt to pass his hair loss off as a personal choice. However, it was not long before he found himself back in another hair restoration clinic.

Hair Transplant Number Two

Conte’s second hair transplant proved a lot more successful than his first. Although it hasn’t been confirmed, it is believed the footballer headed to Canada for the procedure. There, he spent several thousand dollars on either FUT or FUE. Follicular unit transplantation (FUT) and follicular unit extraction (FUE) are quite similar, although the latter that is favored as it is less invasive.

Whatever hair transplant technique Conte chose, it worked wonders. Today, he sports a full head of hair. Some would argue that he even looks better than footballers half his age. Conte’s hair now appears so natural that it is next to impossible to tell he underwent a transplant (let alone two).

Where To Get A Hair Transplant Like Conte’s

It is estimated that Antonio Conte spent upwards of $30,000 on his hair transplant. However, you can secure a similar procedure for a fraction of that price.

Conte likely paid so much for his second hair transplant because he had it performed in Canada. Had he gone to India or Turkey, where hair transplant clinics exist by the hundreds, he would have obtained follicular unit extraction for little more than $5000.

Turkish hair restoration centers, such as the famous Vera Clinic in Istanbul, offer low rates as they must compete with the countless other clinics in the country. For this reason, medical tourists often choose Turkey for a hair transplant.

So Conte isnt alone, with hair transplant tourism on the rise even men who wouldn’t consider themselves as vain are now considering hair transplant surgery to regain their lost youthful look. An advancement in techniques  plays a huge part in it too.

Most hair transplant clinics today offer low-level laser treatments to treat hair transplant patients during their initial healing and growth cycles. The Kiierr laser hair growth cap is a cutting edge low-level laser device that helps with the overall healing process and the initial growth from the sleep cycle.

No wonder, the natural-looking slick end results of today are a far cry from the boring toupee look of the past.

Written by Anshulika Chawla

    4 Comments

  1. UEC Hair Studio at Reply

    This blog is really helpful to deliver updated affairs over internet which is really appraisable.

  2. Lars Jeppesen at Reply

    He’s using a wig.
    I can’t believe you didn’t figured that out.

  3. Enlin Bazia at Reply

    It’s a mesh hairpiece. The mesh allows you to see the scalp like you would normal hair and is glued at its edges using a medical grade adhesive. I know this as my mate’s got one and it looks excellent. How Conte’s manages to not even show any signs of it at his hairline is something I don’t understand though. Note: no way could a transplant get that coverage with his hair type. It works on thick, curly hair, see Lewis Hamilton, his is a transplant and looks amazing.

    • Gabriel Kemlo at Reply

      The reason you can’t see it at the hairline is because he doesn’t have one: he’s chosen a fringe, which is the best way to disguise a . I know these things, because, like your friend, I had one. There are two types: a reusable one, which is cheaper than the disposable ones which last a year; the latter have a finer mesh substrate, like the thinnest of condoms, the former are tougher one. Both are invisible to the human eye I found. The problem is when the wig, or whatever the latest euphemism is for these things – something to do with ‘system’ is it, a hair replacement system perhaps – starts to unstick from the scalp, towards the end of the month, especially if you’ve been sweating a lot, or swimming, that’s basically when the problems come in. You’re never a hundred percent sure of the system’s durability. And then of course, there’s the ultimate fear, being called out. In our patriarchal culture it’s not permitted for men to wear wigs, it’s long been held an official humiliation to be found to be doing so – Elton John, Ronnie Wood.

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