The social demands of modern society has made us all a little impatient and greedy. We want everything bigger, better and faster. We want to live larger than life. This includes everything from the cars we drive, to the people we follow on social media. It's like we have this innate desire to have the most and be the biggest. This mindset bleeds into other facets of life and those who seek to restore their hair through hair transplantation are no different. So just how many hair transplants can you have? Well, keep reading. There is no one-size-fits-all however, there is an approximate average among the hair transplant community. But this is dependent on the harvesting technique and whether the patient is electing to under go Follicular Unit Strip Surgery (FUSS) or Follicular Unit Excision (FUE). FUE is a minimally invasive procedure that involves a hair transplant surgeon removing follicular units one by one from the patients donor site with a small punch between the sizes of 0.7 and 1mm in circumference. It is common knowledge that visible hair loss occurs once 50% of the natural density has been lost. This formula can also be applied to the donor supply (back and sides of the scalp) of a patient. Most individuals are born with approximately 100,000 hairs on their head. This means a typical Norwood 6 patient would have approximately 25,000 hairs in their safe donor zone (area safe from the effects of DHT). The majority of individuals have about 2 hairs per graft, so if we do some simple division 25,000 hairs breaks down to 12,500 grafts. Now since we know hair loss does not become visible until 50% of density has been lost, most patients would be able to transplant 6,250 grafts via Follicular Unit Excision (FUE). Now it's important to remember these numbers are not set in stone and will vary from person to person, some may have more grafts available and some may have less.
How About FUSS? FUSS or strip surgery is performed by removing a strip of donor tissue from the back and sides of the scalp which are genetically resistant to DHT. Strip surgery relies on the elasticity of a patients scalp, because every time a strip of donor tissue is removed, the patients scalp becomes tighter and loses elasticity. Thus, reducing the amount of surgeries a patient could have without severely compromising the scalp. The term "stripped out" refers to the patients scalp which can no longer withstand any further donor tissue removal. The amount of surgeries an individual can have depends on the elasticity of their scalp. Some individuals can have up to four hair transplant procedures and others may only be able to have two. How Many Hair Transplants Can You Have? Unfortunately, there is no clear cut answer, because there is no on-size-fits-all when it comes to hair transplant surgery. Some individuals never lose any hair besides their hairline, while others only lose hair in their crown (vertex) and some go completely bald. Obviously, the amount of hair transplant procedures one can have or would have depends on these aforementioned factors. However, the one thing we are certain of is that combining both FUE and FUSS will ultimately lead to the maximum amount of hair and surgeries one can have
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