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I hear that question all of the time. The answers often vary from 1000 to as high as 6000 grafts, sometimes regardless of the balding pattern. We focus on the number of grafts because more grafts move more hair into the balding area. But the real numbers depend upon

• hair thickness,
• the balding pattern,
• the color of your skin and hair,
• the character of your hair, the thickness of the hair shafts (fine, medium or coarse)
• and most important, something about your donor supply capacity to support the balding pattern at the time the question is asked.

Note that I am putting in a time factor, because balding is a progressive process and how bald you are today, might be distinctly different than how bald you will be tomorrow.

Some young men fly to Turkey, get 5000-6000 grafts for minimal cost. Then they come home to wait and watch it grow. Assuming that the clinic did it right (not the case in many Turkey clinics that don’t have a doctor but sell grafts (like potatoes were sold to the Irish at the time of the famine in the 1800s), they may run out of grafts (or potatoes) before they finish balding.

Hair transplants need to be part of a Personalized Master Plan that incorporates how you are going to manage fixing the balding problem against a progressive balding process. If you use up all of your donor hair before the balding is complete, you may end up looking freaky for the rest of your life. I hear the young man tell me that they are not worried about their hair loss when they get to 30, or 35 or 40. I speak with many 30, 35 and 40 year old men and they ALL CARE about what their hair looks like. Poor planning is almost always a disaster for sometime down the road. All doctors are not equal. Some doctors are in it for the money, so selling more grafts means making more money. You have to identify those doctors and make sure that you don’t get one of them. I always say that a good decision today is a good decision tomorrow.

So to answer the basic question “How many grafts do I need?”, take it easy, digest what you read above and the look to some of the following links below:

• https://baldingblog.com/i-am-19-and-may-be-balding-what-do-i-do/
• https://baldingblog.com/go-why-do-we-need-a-master-plan/
• https://baldingblog.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=34268&action=edit
• https://baldingblog.com/hair-thickness-vs-density/

Am I the only person questioning why there isn’t a big market for this? Scientists all around the world are cloning hearts, lungs, and other organs in a glass box without a body. Yet these scientists cant just clone your hair follicles and transplant them or something – and just “cure” baldness? Or is this once again just the trillion dollar hair corporations refusing to let this become a thing because they will lose millions on selling imaginary hairy growth products to the gullible masses?

Good questions. Cloning was done in the late 19802 when Jahoda cloned hair from he and his wife. They were only a few hairs and it has never been something can can be done commercially. In the 1990s, hair cloning was successfully done on mice, but the the hair which was cloned in a petri dish, when transplanted into mice, killed them because the hair grew wild in every direction causing massive infections. What most people don’t realize is that a hair is a complete organ system and each follicular unit, as an independent organ, has be be developed that it grows like a complete organ, in the correct position and direction. For this reason, most people have tried to work with stem cells to grow the organ from scratch, which would then have a direction and each stem cell might produce a hair organ (follicular unit). We have not gotten there despite now almost 30 years after the first hair was cloned.

 

Plan on getting a HT I have an autoimmune disorder called LPP & the top of my head started thinning really bad about a year ago hair falling out in clumps flaky I’ve tried meds and everything there’s not much they can really do . It’s killed my confidence but I’m looking at getting a hair transplant to correct my hairline how many grafts would I need? Its just the top of my head thats needs to be filled in I have a really good donor area and I’ve been thinking about a HT for awhile now if anyone could give advice thanks

Having LLP (Lichen planopilaris) is generally a contraindication for a hair transplant, as the odds are that the disease will kill the grafts.

I ‘ve been taking propecia for the past 4 years but now I really wish to donate blood at least once in my lifetime.
As you know Finasteride users are not allowed to donate blood. According to one of your previous posts Finasteride is cleared from the blood stream within 48 hours.

So I planned to stop taking propecia for a week, donate blood and resume taking the pill. A week seemed a reasonable
amount of time also because according to the information I found on the internet, DHT levels take a whole week to be
back to normal once you stop taking it.

Unfortunately, however both on the Red Cross site and other sites, they state you need to wait at least 30 days after
the last dose of Finasteride.

Why do I need to stop for a whole month if Finasteride is cleared from my blood stream within a few days? Wouldn’t say,
two weeks be safe enough?

You need to wait a month because that is the policy of the Red Cross. Two weeks may be “safe” but you have to follow the organization’s policy.

 

This is very simple thing to do to remind yourself every time you try to touch your face