Surface Integral and why "r" from (polar) change of variables is missing from the integral?

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I'm ask to find the surface area of the cylinder $x^2+y^2=2x$ limited by the cone $z=\sqrt{(x^2+y^2)}$ and the plane $z=0$ and . I know that the cylinder's center is at $(1,0)$

$x^2+y^2=2x$ can be rewritten as $(x-1)^2+y^2=1$: a circle with centre $(1,0)$ and radius $1$.

First parametrise by setting $x-1=\cos \theta$, $y=\sin \theta$

This gives $z=\sqrt{2x}=\sqrt{2(\cos \theta+1)}$.

We can now imagine the cylinder being unwrapped, so that the area is:

$$\int_0^{2\pi} \sqrt{2(\cos \theta+1)} d\theta$$

Basically from my understanding of the above:the surface area of the cylinder limited by the cone is

$$ \int_0^{2\pi}\int_0^\sqrt{2(\cos\theta+1)}drd\theta$$

I was told that when doing integration in polar coordinates,

$$dx dy=r dr d\theta$$ .

Is the "$r$ " in the integral: $$\int_0^{2\pi} \sqrt{2(\cos \theta+1)} d\theta$$ missing or equal to one?

I expected the surface area of the cylinder limited by the cone to be instead $$ \int_0^{2\pi}\int_0^\sqrt{2(\cos\theta+1)}rdrd\theta$$

and not :$$\int_0^{2\pi} \sqrt{2(\cos \theta+1)} d\theta$$

What's going on with "$ r$ " from the jacobian?

This is a followup question on :Area cylinder limited by cone.