i'm 26 years old and would like a hair transplant.how many grafts would i need and how much would it cost? thank you for your question! you are 26 years old and you are asking themost common questions that men with hair loss ask: how many grafts do you need? how muchwould it cost? so i’m going to help you understand before we even go to that zoneof trying to come up with numbers and costs is first understand the context of the questionyou’re asking. you may be making an assumption that manymen do when they are exploring a solution for hair loss. first of all, you are assumingthat your hair loss will not continue but
that’s not the case. you are very youngand you have a very advanced hair loss. so it’s very important to understand that hairloss is progressive and the fact that you’ve had an onset at a young age and you progressedto a very advanced stage means that you will still continue to lose hair and whatever numberof grafts you get will not likely be enough to get the desired result. when i was training in facial cosmetic surgeryand this is going to the early to mid-90s, it was common standard in our profession tonot to a transplant to someone in their 20s. and it was the understanding that men in their20s, only 20% or so of the contemporaries have hair loss and 80% have a lot of hairand whether it’s rational or irrational,
the expectation is to get a lot of hair fromtransplant surgery. transplant surgery nomenclature can be confusing. when you do research abouthair transplants, you have the race of the number of grafts and the costs of grafts andit’s been become kind of a circus where doctors and institutions or companies aretrying to beat each other and selling hair transplant procedures. as a physician, as a surgeon, someone who’staking care of patients for 20 years, and whose patients have been continuously in mypractice for whatever length of time i’ve known them for, my job is to counsel patientson what is likely to be the result and the realistic. so let’s start with some hardtruths. number one is the donor area. the
donor area is the limited band at the backof scalp. whether you do follicular unit transplant, whether you do fues or whether you’re usingany type of new device including robot technology, doesn’t change physiology. that number isa mismatch with the surface area of the scalp that needs coverage. the international societyof hair restoration surgery survey of membership showed clearly that 65% of patients wantedmore density. if we look at patients who had surgery aftersurgery, if you hear this: “well, i’ll go add a second.†and a third and a fourthtransplant, when these patients have this many transplants and they try to cover thescalp with as many grafts ad they can possibly can, if you continue to lose hair, the scalpstill looks like you’re losing hair and
that’s not a desirable result. in otherpeople, if they concentrate the hair grafts in this particular area in a particular way,when existing hairs thin out, they look pluggy. they look like they have hair grafts and thatgives hair transplants a bad name. in our practice, we developed a treatmentas an alternative to hair transplant. for people in their 20s, we always advocate basedon experience that the earlier you come, the better it is. we call this treatment hairregeneration. this is a method that we developed using a wound healing material that appearsto halt the progression of hair thinning and causes a reversal at various levels, dependingon how advanced the hair is thinning of hairs that are progressively thinning to hairs becomingthicker. we always say that we can save the
dying but we can’t bring back the dead.so early treatment regardless of the age of onset is something we advocate. we treatedpeople as young as 18 years old and we’ve had very nice results because the earlierwe catch them, the better it is. you also have to consider, properly it wasnot expressed in your question, whether or not you are using any medical therapy to stabilizeyour hair loss whether it’s finasteride or minoxidil. currently, a lot of males arenot taking finasteride because of concerns of long term sexual side effects. so in ourpractice, we have been put to the test of using hair regeneration as a standardizedor standalone treatment in the absence of using any support from using finasteride.and we’ve had excellent results. close to
a 100% of our male pattern hair loss patientsdo get results. so when you are exploring your options, it’svery important to understand the limitations of hair transplantation and it’s very importantto stabilize your hair loss. whether you do it with medical therapy, whether you do withtechnology like hair regeneration, it is critically important for you to stabilize your hair progressionor your hair loss progression. so before you start shopping for grafts and costs, learnabout your options and be realistic. i’m seeing a lot of patients who are in their20s who have had transplant already in their early to mid-20s and they are still losinghair and they are coming to us to try to find a solution because they realize that theycan’t transplant enough hairs to get the
results they want. at the same time, theyare kind of stuck because as they are losing their existing hairs, it’s become obviousthat they had hair transplants and that’s not a good place to be socially. so i hope that information was helpful toyou, i wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question!
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