How Full of a Transplant Could the Baldest Pattern Yield?

There’s little I can do to make this question less vague, but if an average man, with an averagely sized head, and average hair density/ thickness, who has reached the worst class of male pattern baldness, ever be able to achieve a look of a full head of hair through transplants? I’m not yet there, but discovering hair transplants gave me hope. Discovering their limits kinda scared me a little.

By a ‘full’ head of hair, I am aware that the original density will never be achieved, but is it possible to perform a procedure giving the appearance of a full, even head of hair with no signs of balding? Thank you.

The appearance of a full head of hair (just what you said) is what this is about. If you look at this patient, you will see a fully advanced Class 7 pattern, which is about as bald as you can get. He had almost 10,000 grafts to get this coverage (about 25,000 hairs transplanted). Considering that the average man you discussed above has 100,000 birth hairs, that means that the patient in the link would have moved his entire donor area to cover his head, leaving him almost bald on the side and back of his head. Obviously, this did not happen here, because this patient had a very high density to start (probably born with 200,000 hairs). I know that because with his high density, he could have had another 5000 grafts transplanted if he needed it.

I did not present this man to confuse you, but rather to show you what the worst case balding could look like if the supply of donor hair has very high. Many of our patients with advanced balding may only have 7,000 grafts of donor supply, which then must be distributed artistically by a skillful, experienced surgeon to create the illusion of a full head of hair.

I would suggest that you look at our website and the hundreds of patient examples shown in our Patient Photo Galleries. If it is said that a picture is worth a 1000 words, here’s 1000 pictures that are clearly worth more than that.