Hair transplant for diffuse hair loss from tressless

A doctor offered me 8,000 FUE grafts in one session, about 12 hours of surgery. Is this reasonable and safe?

There are many problems with that large number of grafts for a hair transplant, including:

1. The length of the surgery
2. The amount of time the grafts are out of the body and
3. The access to your head with the team placing the grafts.
4. Can the donor area support 8,000 FUE grafts without becoming bald?

I don’t believe that I ever met a patient who can support 8,000 FUE grafts. If you choose that route, you will have a see-through, possibly bald back of the head as most of the hair would have been removed there. You should ask to meet other patients who had the same number of grafts done in one session and to see the results, not only in the donor area but also in the recipient area as well.  You might find that unless your density is more than twice the density of the average Caucasian, this will not be a safe or a productive procedure in terms of a complication-free hair transplant after the surgery.

Anagen is the growth phase which lasts between 2-6 years depending upon sex and age.

Telogen is the sleep phase which lasts about 2-6 months.

These hair cycles occur in every human being on the scalp. It starts when we are born and continues until we die unless we have genetic balding.

This is another patient who had his donor area over-harvested with a see-through look that he did not expect. He was never informed that this could happen. He wants something done about it and I recommended Scalp Micropigmentation for him (see: https://scalpmicropigmentation.com/scar-covering/#!) which should easily handle the appearance of the see-through donor area. His doctor should have told him that this could happen.

The post-operative picture on the left shows recipient area necrosis (a loss of blood supply to the graft area). This area healed with the scar that you are showing in your 6 months photo as I would have expected (photo to right). You need another hair transplant to fix this. You should ask your surgeon to make it right for you as this reflects a surgical problem.

It depends on the cause of the woman’s hair loss. If the woman had miniaturization of the donor hair, then this hair may not last a long time. If the donor hair is normal, it should last a woman’s lifetime. Many women with genetic balding have miniaturization in the donor area and, when this is more than 20%, I consider that woman not to be a candidate for a hair transplant. The miniaturized hairs may not last, and any woman asking for a hair transplant other than a hairline lowering procedure should ask the doctor to evaluate the donor area for miniaturization.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01231607?show_locs=Y&sect=X430125&view=results#othr