Do Higher Graft/Hair Counts Ensure a Better Hair Transplant Result?

How many follicular unit grafts are available for a hair transplant? Will higher numbers of hair grafts ensure a higher quality result?

The number of follicular unit grafts available in hair transplantation per hair transplant patient is a hot topic of discussion on our hair restoration discussion forum. Firstly, I encourage you to read the following hair loss Q&A blog: How Many grafts are Available For Hair Transplantation?

But hair restoration surgical results are dependent on more than sheer numbers of follicular unit grafts and the number of hairs - though certainly numbers can play a significant role in the ultimate hair transplant result. Below I’ve listed important hair transplant result dependencies:

A hair restoration physician’s ability to perform state of the art hair transplantation
The available donor hair supply (dependent upon donor hair density and scalp elasticity) - including the number of follicular unit grafts and the number of hairs
The balding area to be covered
The amount of native hair / natural hair remaining
The risk of future hair loss
Hair density of the transplanted hair verses hair coverage over the balding area
Hair characteristics including hair color (least hair to scalp contrast the greater the cosmetic appearance), hair thickness (the thicker the better)

Bill - aka Falceros
Associate Publisher of the Hair Transplant Network and the Hair Loss Learning Center
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