Balding Blog
10-01-2009, 01:42 PM
Hello, I just had a wonderful procedure. Their offices were clean, procedures were excellent, and the staff was very accommodating. In 2002 I had 800 grafts done by another group in San Francisco and then again I just did 3500 grafts. The follicles were transplanted throughout my scalp approximately 25 FU/CM2. I have a very nice NW2 hairline. Also, I had a very high number of 4-hair grafts. Over 400 of them! They excised a strip of 3500 grafts and got 3703!!!
Do most of your patients get about 25FU/cm2 and are happy with it? I think it will be ok but just need reassurance.
A normal person will have 1250 hairs or 600 two-hair follicular units. When converted to cm/square, that would extrapolate to 100 follicular units per square cm. If you received 25 follicular units in 1 cm, that would suggest that in one procedure, the doctor returned 25% of your normal density on the transplanted area. This is often not really the case, as some areas will have higher densities put in and other areas lower densities. For a person with average weight hair, olive skin, and brown hair, 50% densities overall should be more than enough to produce a full appearance. If you had a high number of four-hair grafts, then that might mean that your overall densities are higher than average. I generally target 25% density return on the first session, but at times I will go higher or lower depending upon other factors.
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Do most of your patients get about 25FU/cm2 and are happy with it? I think it will be ok but just need reassurance.
A normal person will have 1250 hairs or 600 two-hair follicular units. When converted to cm/square, that would extrapolate to 100 follicular units per square cm. If you received 25 follicular units in 1 cm, that would suggest that in one procedure, the doctor returned 25% of your normal density on the transplanted area. This is often not really the case, as some areas will have higher densities put in and other areas lower densities. For a person with average weight hair, olive skin, and brown hair, 50% densities overall should be more than enough to produce a full appearance. If you had a high number of four-hair grafts, then that might mean that your overall densities are higher than average. I generally target 25% density return on the first session, but at times I will go higher or lower depending upon other factors.
Tags: hair transplant (http://technorati.com/tag/hair+transplant), density (http://technorati.com/tag/density), surgery (http://technorati.com/tag/surgery), follicular unit (http://technorati.com/tag/follicular+unit), hair restoration (http://technorati.com/tag/hair+restoration)
More... (http://www.baldingblog.com/2009/10/01/density-of-hair-transplants/)