Miami Hair Institute, Miami, FL

Bird Road west of US-1 is not Brickell. It is a ten-story medical tower, Merrick Park across the way, and people who would rather sit in a Coral Gables garage than fly to Istanbul for a hairline. Suite 102 at 3850 Bird Road is Miami Hair Institute: a father-and-son dermatology shop that has been moving follicles since the early eighties, a third dermatologist who takes the medical cases, and a surgery day that starts before the lobby coffee. That is a different business than the med-spa PRP special two zip codes over, and it is a different door than the Ponce de Leon suite their old listings still advertise.

Miami Hair Institute is the suite 102 office in Merrick Pointe, zip 33146. Surgical and medical hair restoration for men and women. Strip, FUE, their patented MOSAIC pattern work, PRP. Three board-certified dermatologists on the door.

The door is suite 102. They print Coral Gables. The mail still finds Miami, FL 33146. Phone (305) 448-9100. Toll-free (877) 443-9070. Fax 305-448-1050. Site miamihair.com. Email drnusbaum@miamihair.com. You book by calling. There is a Schedule Consult button, not a live calendar you can click into a chair. If you do not live here, they will take photos of the thinning and the donor area by email or FedEx and say they will answer within 48 hours. They will estimate a number at the consult. They do not post that number. Their own site never prints a hours grid. Apple Maps currently paints weekdays 8 to 5, Wednesday out to 8, weekends off. WebMD stretches every weekday to 8. Google, right now, only shows Thursday, 8 to 8, and goes silent the rest of the week. Surgery patients describe walking in around 7 in the morning. If you only have a lunch hour, get a human on (305) 448-9100 before you sit in Bird Road traffic.

If you are comparing Coral Gables and west-of-US-1 offices, the rest of the city list is on the Miami clinics page.

The office on Bird Road

3850 Bird is Merrick Pointe, a Class-A ten-story medical and office building put up in 2007, marble lobby, four elevators, concierge at the desk. Shops at Merrick Park is the walk. Coconut Grove is east. South Miami is south. Douglas Road Metrorail is the train if you do not want the car. The live door is 3850 Bird Rd, Suite 102, Miami, FL 33146. Confirm that string. Old pages still leak 4425 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Suite 230, same zip, a different building, a wasted morning. One profile still files them at 3683 S Miami Avenue. That is Coconut Grove waterfront, not Bird Road.

Parking is the garage, gated and covered, not a hunt on SW 40th. Building listings for this tower advertise two hours of free visitor parking. After that, ask the desk. From US-1 you come west on Bird. From Le Jeune you hit Bird and turn. From the Beach it is 836 west to Le Jeune, then south, or US-1 and west on 40th. If you put 4425 Ponce in the GPS, turn around.

Aron Nusbaum is who most of the surgical reviews name. Board-certified dermatologist, fellow of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, University of Miami trained, regenerative-medicine research behind him. He designs the hairline. Patients call him an artist, one of them a Picasso, which is a lot of noun for a Tuesday. He has told at least one younger man no at first, then yes once the questions were serious. He speaks Spanish. If you need the visit in Spanish, say so when you book. You will probably get it.

Bernard Nusbaum is the father. University of Miami School of Medicine, American Board of Dermatology since 1983, past president of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery, ISHRS Golden Follicle, editor emeritus of the Hair Transplant Forum. He has been doing this in South Florida since 1983. The site credits him with more than 10,000 procedures in the last two decades and, with Aron, with directing the hair-transplant education program at the University of Miami Department of Dermatology. He is on the door. He is not the name people write down after a 2025 surgery day. Ask which Nusbaum you are booking.

Timothy Wu is the other M.D. Berkeley, NYU, UCLA intern year, dermatology residency at Miami. Board-certified. He publishes as a medical-hair-loss doctor: imaging, PRP with a biologic booster, alopecia areata, the cases that are not a hairline drawing. He also operates. A man who spent five years researching wrote that Wu personally sat with his case for eight hours. A Spanish-language patient came in with alopecia areata and credited Wu with the words and the protocol. If you assume every chair is Aron, you will be wrong on some mornings.

Cecilia is the consult. Reviewers call her knowledgeable, no-pressure, and, in one case, a former patient who walked someone through the day because she had already had the day. Maria, sometimes María, is the next-morning wash. Yokasty and Karen take vitals at 7 a.m. and put a lunch menu in your hand. Denis has been named as a technician on the implant side. The names you will actually hear are the ones people bother to spell.

Paul Rose is the ghost. Old blog posts still call him lead surgeon, still print 305-925-0222, still talk about the Hair Transplant Institute of Miami as if that were the live name. His own résumé puts the medical-director years here at 2012 to 2022. He is not on the current doctors page. If your confirmation says Rose, or Institute of Miami, or the Ponce suite, ask.

Spanish is not a translated banner. Aron is fluent. Wu has Spanish-language reviews. A man wrote the whole surgery day in the kind of English that still says technitians. If you want the consult in Spanish, say so.

What they actually do

Start with the transplant, because that is what people keep writing down, even when a listing tries to file the office under stem cells and red light.

The surgical day is long. One man on a 2,500-graft strip walked in at 7 a.m. and was out at 5. Vitals, photographs, markings, a wrap and a smoothie off a menu, then the numb. Reviewers keep saying the numb is the only part that hurts. Local anesthesia, an oral sedative if you want it, nitrous if you want that too. They will send you home with oxycodone, an antibiotic, an anti-swell, Ambien, something for nausea. That same strip patient took Tylenol, the antibiotic, and the anti-swell, and left the rest in the bag. Next morning you come back. Maria shows you how to wash. The care package the day of surgery ran him $200 or more. Labs about two weeks out ran him about $150. Those are one man's numbers from October 2025. They do not publish a menu. Ask.

Harvest is a choice, and they will make you pick it out loud. Strip: no full shave in back, more grafts in less time, a linear scar they close with a trichophytic / ledge technique so hair grows through it. You cannot wear the hair as short. FUE: tiny dots instead of a line, short hair is the point, donor usually shaved to the skin. They split FUE three ways. Hybrid FUE is their ARTAS robot plus zones of manual work; they claim a world lead in robotic cases, and you shave the whole donor. Manual FUE is Ugraft Zeus, Trivellini, WAW, and, in Florida, a licensed physician, PA, or NP doing the extraction, not a traveling tech. No-shave FUE is the long-hair version, the one they demonstrated at a meeting, the one that lets you leave without a buzz. Ask which of those four you are buying. They are not the same morning.

MOSAIC is the pattern talk. Bernard and Aron, with Florida International University, patented software that counts the mix of one-, two-, and three-hair units in the hair you still have, then uses that mix in the balding zone instead of planting in tidy one-hair / two-hair bands. They call themselves the only office licensed to use it. Grafts sit in Hypothermosol plus ATP, not a saline cup. A 2,000-graft case, on their page, runs about seven hours. Transplanted hairs shed in the first weeks. They tell you growth starts at three to four months, you can see it at six, you are done at twelve. Six-month reviews are the ones people wait to write.

Wu's medical lane is the other half of the building. Hereditary male and female pattern loss, breakage, alopecia areata, scarring alopecia, traction. FotoFinder, dermoscopy, hair-mass numbers, a pull test, daily hair counts, a biopsy when they need one, blood work if something metabolic is in the way. TrichoLAB is the newer density camera. Prescriptions they will name: topical and oral, including the usual Rogaine and Propecia language, plus PRP, plus a Capillus MD laser cap they sell as physician-only, six minutes a day, 320 diodes, FDA-cleared for androgenetic alopecia. Do not buy that cap off a banner ad and expect them to honor it.

PRP is a one-hour visit: draw, spin, inject shallow, local, nitrous, their acupressure trick. They add ACell. They want you twice a year if you are using it as a stand-alone, or on the transplant day if you are using it as insurance on the grafts. Stem-cell language is still on the blog: a small liposuction from the belly or love handles, cells concentrated, injected into the scalp. Those posts still name Paul Rose. Confirm it is still a thing they will book in 102, and who is doing the harvest. Body-hair transplants are still advertised for advanced baldness, beard, mustache, brow, chest and underside-of-beard as donor. Reviewers almost never write those down. If that is why you are coming, you need the protocol and the number before you drive.

Hyperbaric oxygen, a skin-bar, and an ED protocol are what some listings will try to hang on this door. They are not on the live menu. If that is the visit you want, this is the wrong suite.

They will not tell you, in public, what a graft costs, whether Thursday really runs to 5 or 8, which of the three doctors is operating that morning, or whether insurance will touch a medical-hair-loss workup. Cosmetic transplants, on their own cost write-up, usually do not go through a plan. They leave a hedge for burns, scars, alopecia areata. Get that answer from your carrier and from the person who picks up (305) 448-9100, not from a blog.

How it feels in the room

One hundred thirty-two people have left Google reviews, 4.9 stars: 128 fives, one four, one three, two ones. Perfect scores with almost no public low notes are a limit. The useful part is not the 4.9. It is what people bother to mention twice.

They mention the hairline drawing. They mention Aron staying late on a 2,350-graft day. They mention Wu sitting eight hours. They mention Cecilia with no sales push. They mention Maria on the wash. They mention Yokasty and Karen at 7 a.m. They mention flying in from Los Angeles, canceling Turkey, shopping LA and Dallas and New York and Atlanta first. A 62-year-old who had already done minoxidil, finasteride, exosomes, and a decade of reading wrote his six-month note like a man who was angry he had waited. A younger man said the bill was higher than going overseas and that he would still pay it. Joe Tillman of the Hair Transplant Channel puts his name on a recommendation on their homepage. That is their celebrity. The room is still three dermatologists and a technician bench.

They mention Spanish and English in the same week. They mention a packed calendar. They mention a next-day wash and a call later to see if the scabs behaved. They call the office professional, exclusive, impeccable, which is easy language. They will not tell you the wait on a Tuesday, whether Bernard is in, what the consult costs, what the graft number is, or whether the robot or the strip knife is the plan until someone draws on your scalp.

The parts that will waste a trip if you skip them

The live door is 3850 Bird Rd Ste 102, Miami, FL 33146, in Merrick Pointe, the Coral Gables / 33146 side of Bird. 4425 Ponce de Leon, suite 230, is leftover. 3683 S Miami Avenue is the wrong neighborhood. If the confirmation says anything else, ask.

Hours are a mess. Their site: no grid. Apple Maps: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 8 to 5, Wednesday 8 to 8, weekends closed. WebMD: 8 to 8 every weekday. Google: Thursday 8 to 8, and silence. Surgery days start near 7. Call (305) 448-9100. If nobody picks up and you only have a lunch hour, you do not have an appointment.

The live phone is (305) 448-9100. Toll-free (877) 443-9070. Old posts still print 305-925-0222. A landing page still prints 877-912-2790 and 305-846-7537. One doctor profile is off by two hundred and lists 305-448-8900. Dial the 9100.

They estimate the bill at the consult. They do not publish a per-graft menu. Labs and the care package are extra, on at least one 2025 invoice. A hostile Yelp note claimed eight to nine dollars a graft. Treat that as a complaint, not a price list. Get the number for the harvest you actually want.

They do not publish insurance. Cosmetic work usually is not. If you need the visit in-network, stop until someone says yes.

Aron, Bernard, and Wu are three different mornings. Paul Rose is not on the current doctors page. Cecilia books. Maria washes. If you need a specific license in the chair, get the name before you park.

Hair Transplant Institute of Miami is the old name. Miami Hair and Skin Institute shows up in leftover company records. Confirm suite 102 and (305) 448-9100.

FAQs

Who will I see at Miami Hair Institute? Three board-certified dermatologists. Aron Nusbaum does most of the hairlines people write about. Bernard Nusbaum is his father, Golden Follicle, more than 10,000 procedures, University of Miami faculty. Timothy Wu takes medical hair loss and also operates; one patient clocked him at eight hours. Cecilia runs intake. Maria does the next-day wash. Yokasty and Karen start the surgical morning. Paul Rose is leftover copy. If you need a named M.D. in the chair, say which one when you call (305) 448-9100.

What does Miami Hair Institute actually offer? Surgical hair restoration first: strip with a trichophytic close, Hybrid FUE with ARTAS, manual FUE, no-shave FUE, MOSAIC pattern work, body-hair and beard cases they still advertise. Medical hair loss next: imaging, labs, biopsy, prescriptions, PRP with ACell, a Capillus MD laser cap, stem-cell language still on the blog. Men and women. It is not a TRT mill, not a drip bar, and not an ED clinic, even when a listing tries to file it that way.

Where is it, and can I park? Suite 102 at 3850 Bird Road, Miami, FL 33146, in Merrick Pointe, on the Coral Gables side of Bird, near Shops at Merrick Park. Covered garage, gated. Building listings advertise two free visitor hours. Concierge lobby, four elevators. Douglas Road Metrorail if you are not driving. Do not GPS 4425 Ponce de Leon. Phone (305) 448-9100.

What are the hours? Their own site does not print a grid. Apple Maps currently says Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 8 to 5, Wednesday 8 to 8, weekends closed. WebMD says 8 to 8 all weekdays. Google currently only shows Thursday 8 to 8. Surgery patients describe a 7 a.m. start. If you only have a lunch hour, call (305) 448-9100 before you drive onto Bird.

How do I book? Call (305) 448-9100 or toll-free (877) 443-9070. Email drnusbaum@miamihair.com. Out-of-town photos of the thinning and the donor area, by email or FedEx, with a daytime number; they say 48 hours. There is no live scheduler. Ask which visit you are buying, and which doctor: consult, strip, FUE, PRP, or a medical-hair-loss workup.

Do they take insurance, and what does it cost? They do not publish insurance. Their own cost write-up treats transplants as cosmetic, with a hedge for medical causes such as alopecia areata, burns, or scars. They estimate the treatment cost at the consult. One 2025 surgical patient paid about $150 for pre-op labs and $200-plus for the care package on top of the procedure. There is no public graft menu. Ask for the number that matches the harvest.

Is this the Hair Transplant Institute of Miami, the Ponce office, or Dr. Rose? Same lineage, not the live label. The live door is Miami Hair Institute, suite 102 at 3850 Bird Road, (305) 448-9100. Hair Transplant Institute of Miami is the former name. 4425 Ponce de Leon, suite 230, is leftover. Paul Rose is on old posts and not on the current doctors page. Confirm Bird Road and the 9100.