Dr. Robert Jones is back in private practice. Twenty-five years of hair restoration — and the verifiable record that comes with it — is what you actually get when you book a consultation.
In the early 2000s, hair transplantation was in transition. The dominant technique — strip surgery, also called FUT — required removing a strip of scalp from the back of the head, then dissecting it into individual follicular units under a microscope. It worked, and worked well, but it left a linear scar that limited how short a patient could ever wear their hair afterward.
A small group of surgeons globally were experimenting with an alternative. Instead of taking a strip, they were extracting follicles one at a time, directly from the scalp, using a small punch. The technique was called follicular unit extraction, or FUE. It was scar-free, but it was also slow, exhausting, and economically unviable for any procedure larger than a few hundred grafts. Most surgeons dismissed it as a curiosity.
Dr. Robert Jones— already an ISHRS member since 1996, with his medical degree from McMaster University (1979) and continuing education at Harvard and Loyola — was one of the small group taking FUE seriously. In 2003, he performed the world’s first large-session FUE— over a thousand grafts in a single day. The hair restoration field took notice. In 2004, he gave the first demonstration FUE surgery at an industry conference in Little Rock, Arkansas. By 2005, he was routinely performing 1,500 to 2,000 graft sessions, and his methods would be adopted globally over the following decade.
“The technique wasn’t new. The idea that you could scale it was. That’s what changed the field.”
— Dr. Robert Jones
For the next fifteen years, Dr. Jones refined what would come to be called the Jones Technique — a methodology around large-session FUE that emphasized hairline design, donor-site preservation, and natural growth direction. In 2008, he was the sole author on a paper in Dermatologic Surgery: “Body hair transplant into wide donor scar” — demonstrating that beard and chest hair could be used as graft donors in patients with limited scalp donor supply. The technique he documented in that paper is now standard practice across the field.
In 2015, after maintaining the educational and leadership criteria the certification requires, he was named a Fellow of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (FISHRS) — a designation that recognizes a sustained commitment to excellence in the field. By that point he had also earned certification by the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery (ABHRS), attended over a dozen ISHRS World Congresses, and become an anchor contributor and advisory board member at HairSite — one of the longest-running independent hair restoration patient communities online.
During those years, his Oakville clinic became an international destination. Patients flew in from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States. He trained over 100 physicians globally in the FUE technique he had pioneered — many of whom continue to use his methodology today. By 2017, the practice had performed thousands of procedures, and his cumulative case count would eventually exceed 6,000 procedures.
He was also among the first surgeons to experiment with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and ACell cell-regeneration compounds for non-surgical hair loss treatment.
In 2018, Dr. Jones joined Dr. Jonathan Huber and Dr. Ashlin Alexander to form Toronto Hair Transplant Surgeons— a collaborative practice combining the three surgeons’ expertise under a single roof. The reasoning at the time was sound: shared infrastructure, shared support staff, a single Oakville facility large enough to accommodate the volume of patients each surgeon was bringing in independently.
For six years, the partnership operated as a recognised destination for hair restoration in Canada. Patients continued to travel internationally to work with Jones specifically, while the broader practice handled cases across all three surgeons. The shared archive — patient before-and-after photographs, testimonials, training materials — grew with the partnership and remained one of its most valuable assets.
But every partnership has a beginning and an end. By 2024, Dr. Jones was ready for what came next.
In 2024, the partnership ended. Dr. Jones stepped away from active practice for a planned two-year hiatus — time to think about the next chapter, and to build it without compromise.
What stayed with the partnership: the prior websites, the patient archive, and the body of marketing material accumulated over those six years. That is how partnership exits work, and why a new clinic opening today cannot show twenty-five years of historical case work on its own walls.
What Dr. Jones retained was, in some ways, more important: his methodology, his training history, his published research, his conference work, his professional credentials, and his reputation. The Jones Technique didn’t transfer to anyone. The training he had given to over 100 physicians, the published work, the decades of conference contribution — all of that remained his.
For new patients, the practical reality is simple: Dr. Jones is leading your procedure himself. Twenty-five years of doing this. Six thousand-plus procedures. Over 100 physicians trained globally in the large-session FUE methodology he refined.
That experience translates directly to what you walk away with: a hairline that looks like it always grew there, a donor area preserved for life, a recovery you can plan around your life, and an honest answer if surgery isn’t the right call for you. Dr. Jones leads every case — consultation, hairline design, and in-room surgical oversight — with a trained clinical team executing under his direct supervision. One technique, refined for twenty-five years.
The on-site gallery is being rebuilt case by case with patient consent — a year for early results, two years for a substantial collection. Until then, the verifiable record speaks for the work: a peer-reviewed paper indexed on PubMed, 146 verified cases on RealSelf, twelve ISHRS World Congresses, and a CPSO record any patient can pull up themselves. None of it requires taking our word for anything.
For patients who want to verify credentials independently — and we encourage that — Dr. Jones’s record is publicly accessible across multiple academic, professional, and consumer platforms. None of this requires taking our word for anything.
Dr. Jones’s peer-reviewed work appears in Dermatologic Surgery, the journal of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery. Indexed on PubMed.
For Canadian patients, the most important verification is the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario — the regulatory body that licenses every physician in the province. Dr. Jones is registered with CPSO #31693 and his current standing is publicly searchable.
Full title: Robert Jones, BSc, MD, CCFP, ABHRS, FISHRS — Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Medicine (McMaster, 1979), Certificant of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, Diplomate of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery, Fellow of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery.
The most exhaustive collection of Dr. Jones’s case work lives on RealSelf — an independent third-party patient review platform. The profile shows 146 before-and-after photographs, 36 patient reviews averaging 4.8 / 5 with 100% five-star ratings, and 201 patient questions answered personally by Dr. Jones. None of these are controlled by us. RateMDs, a separate Canadian rating platform, provides a second independent record.
A small selection from the public RealSelf profile. Each links directly to the patient’s own review on RealSelf — not republished here, hosted there.
Read all 36 reviews on the full RealSelf profile.
You’ll see other clinics show you their gallery on the homepage, and we will too — eventually. For now, we’d rather be honest about what we have, what we don’t, and where the rest lives.
If you’re considering surgery, look at the published work, look at the credentials, look at the reviews. Then send us your photos. Twenty-five years of doing this means I can tell you, just from looking at your photos, whether you’re a good candidate, what to expect, and what it’ll cost. That’s where I can actually help.