Note - This insightful article was written by “Falceros” who is a major and respected contributor to the Hair Restoration Discussion Forum.
Many people ask if a hair transplant will restore a full head of hair. What people typically mean when they ask this question is “Will I be able to restore my hair to look like the good old high school days (or maybe Junior High for some)?” For some, this may be more possible than others, depending on the level of hair loss one is experiencing, however, before we answer this question, let’s take a look at more specifics regarding this topic.
One has a finite supply of donor tissue that can be removed for hair transplantation during strip surgery (regardless of number of sessions). Additionally, there are only so many hairs that can be extracted using the Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) or the Follicular Isolation Technique (FIT) without the donor area looking moth-eaten. Because there is a limitation of how many donor hairs can be taken, clearly these grafts/hairs should be used wisely, taking into consideration factors like density verses coverage. Clearly those with lesser amounts of hair loss can use their grafts to dense up existing balding areas (assuming their hair loss is under control), whereas those with greater amounts of hair loss has to sacrifice one or the other, density or coverage. One can choose to dense up the frontal part of their scalp for example and leave the crown bald, or choose to cover the whole area whereas density will be sacrificed.
