Low Hair per Follicle

[Thanos60]

Hi,

 

What happens if you have a low hair count per graft? Is 1.5 hairs/graft considered low? I know anything over 2 results in an excellent density.

 

Thanks.

[Thehairupthere]

That question is hard to answer because it depends on the location of the transplanted graft. If it's hairline work, most of the grafts will be singles, and some doubles behind it to add density. If you are talking about grafts that were transplanted further back into the forelock, to or crown then you should have a lot of singles, doubles and triples placed in strategic areas to give as much density as possible. So basically if you have all singles than that is not going to give you a very thick, or dense look. That could happen because your hair in the donor area has mostly singles, or the surgeon you chose may have cut the grafts to make a larger graft count.

[Dutch]

howdy.

youll have less density and coverage of course but if you have good laxity, that would help the surgeon to extract more hairs from a larger strip- if you are getting a FUT.

but if the hair shafts are medium or thick, then you would still get a good result.

[Janna]

1.5 is at the lower end but it generally means you have thick caliber hairs to off-set the lower density of hairs per graft.

[RCWest]

The surgeon could also utilize MFU's which are multiple follicular units. They will insert 2 grafts in each recipient site to make up for low hair per FU count.

[lawman]

That is what my doctor did for me. He is a proponent of multiple follicular unit grafting in the area behind the hair line. Most transplants if not all generally lack density. The follicular unit only philosophy benefits the doctor more then the patient. Why? Because the doctor gets to make up a whole bunch of 1 and 2 hair grafts and charge you by the graft. If you use more dense grafts you can't generate as much revenue. Why would most doctors put you before themselves. It's not happenning. I can tell you Dr. Bolton puts his patients first. One procedure per day, true specialist in hair restoration and an entire website of one procedure results.

[spin266]

lawman,is dr bolton that good or do you work for him,i see that just today you praised him on 3different threads .just seems strange that dr bolton shows up on 3 threds in one day..just askin