Vincent Freeman
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There is a growing group of uninformed people who shout this sentence, with others repeat it without knowing anything about the issue.
They use it as an argument againts fin using and think that HT is the final solution to the problem, without knowing anything about finasteride or hair transplant.
The basic first thing everyone should know about HT is the one that most people can logically deduce, are told by a HT surgeon or found while searching for information online. A lot of people know about it, but it needs to be repeated.
YOU WILL LOSE HAIR FURTHER BEYOND THE TRANSPLANTED AREA IF YOU DON'T TAKE FINESTARIDE.
It's one of the first things an ethical surgeon would tell you during a consultation.
Another of the many inaccurate rebuttals used here and related to this fact is this: “Ok, so will repeat the transplant every time my hair thins/move behind the transplanted area, not a big deal fella.“ wrong.
What you have to keep in mind is that HT is not a magic operation. It is about creating the illusion of hair growth for the customer's aesthetic needs, almost like creating an optical illusion.
A person only has a limited donor area that varies by genetics/phenotype.
This is also one of the reasons why transplants for people with NW 5-7 and cant achieve the best results or results that would satisfy a person who expects a full head of hair like an 18-year-old man.
The more hair you've already lost and you're on the Norwood scale, the more grafts you need. By the time you're around NW3 (which is the stage most people are just starting to figure it out) you need around 2000-3000 grafts to cover a given area to create the illusion of density.
So you have already spent more than half of your donor area, on an area that is not yet so dense - The densest area of the head in a healthy person without androgenetic alopecia is the crown, where to fill the given area you need around 3000-4000 grafts for NW7.
And yet there is another zinger even for those who take fin and are NW2 and planning a transplant for so called perfect hairline.
The average density of hair on an adult who does not have baldness is 200-300 hairs per square centimeter (cm2). Variability in this value occurs with hair color, age of the individual, location you are observing on the scalp, and the presence of any hair loss diseases. The crown is the region that is most densely packed with hair follicles. In adults the sides and back of the scalp may have a hair density as low as 150/cm2. For the crown of the scalp pre-puberty, the density is 250-400 hairs/cm2. Hair follicle density is a different thing altogether.
50-60 grafts per cm^2 is the most any ethical surgeon will do in two sessions - which would still be visible. hairtransplant will always be just an illusion of hair in 99% of cases. concealers or fake hair are almost mandatory.
Even with unlimited hairfolicle supply you would never and i repeat never reach natural density.
this is what most HTs look like under direct light
so take your fin or give yourself to illusion.
They use it as an argument againts fin using and think that HT is the final solution to the problem, without knowing anything about finasteride or hair transplant.
The basic first thing everyone should know about HT is the one that most people can logically deduce, are told by a HT surgeon or found while searching for information online. A lot of people know about it, but it needs to be repeated.
YOU WILL LOSE HAIR FURTHER BEYOND THE TRANSPLANTED AREA IF YOU DON'T TAKE FINESTARIDE.
It's one of the first things an ethical surgeon would tell you during a consultation.
Another of the many inaccurate rebuttals used here and related to this fact is this: “Ok, so will repeat the transplant every time my hair thins/move behind the transplanted area, not a big deal fella.“ wrong.
What you have to keep in mind is that HT is not a magic operation. It is about creating the illusion of hair growth for the customer's aesthetic needs, almost like creating an optical illusion.
A person only has a limited donor area that varies by genetics/phenotype.
This is also one of the reasons why transplants for people with NW 5-7 and cant achieve the best results or results that would satisfy a person who expects a full head of hair like an 18-year-old man.
The more hair you've already lost and you're on the Norwood scale, the more grafts you need. By the time you're around NW3 (which is the stage most people are just starting to figure it out) you need around 2000-3000 grafts to cover a given area to create the illusion of density.
So you have already spent more than half of your donor area, on an area that is not yet so dense - The densest area of the head in a healthy person without androgenetic alopecia is the crown, where to fill the given area you need around 3000-4000 grafts for NW7.
And yet there is another zinger even for those who take fin and are NW2 and planning a transplant for so called perfect hairline.
The average density of hair on an adult who does not have baldness is 200-300 hairs per square centimeter (cm2). Variability in this value occurs with hair color, age of the individual, location you are observing on the scalp, and the presence of any hair loss diseases. The crown is the region that is most densely packed with hair follicles. In adults the sides and back of the scalp may have a hair density as low as 150/cm2. For the crown of the scalp pre-puberty, the density is 250-400 hairs/cm2. Hair follicle density is a different thing altogether.
50-60 grafts per cm^2 is the most any ethical surgeon will do in two sessions - which would still be visible. hairtransplant will always be just an illusion of hair in 99% of cases. concealers or fake hair are almost mandatory.
Even with unlimited hairfolicle supply you would never and i repeat never reach natural density.
this is what most HTs look like under direct light
so take your fin or give yourself to illusion.
