High Hair Density Matters!
So What is High Density Hair Transplant?
Hair which are planted appear more natural with higher densities
This is, without doubt, the best outcome of the high density hair transplant. Hairs appear more natural, fuller and give the patient best results after the transplant.
More Grafts should be planted in order to give a high density:
Most people have a limited number of hair units in the back of the scalp which are permanent. We take only these permanent hairs from back of your scalp. This ensures that a hair transplant does not thin out in coming years. So on average, (not a high density one), the follicles are planted in densities ranging from 45 to 60 follicular units per cm2. By this density you will require 2500 follicular units to cover the frontal area with mid-scalp in grade IV baldness. If you increase this density to 100 or 110 FU/cm2 then the total graft number will obviously be double i.e. 5000 follicular units. Now the question is whether you have 5000 follicular units available or not. We cannot deplete the number of available permanent follicular units for the name of high density hair transplant. A recent trend is where just for frontal hair line correction the number of follicular units used at 110/cm2 exceeded 4000 follicular units. This will invariably deplete the follicular units from back of the scalp and hence future hair transplant (which is required because only frontal hair line of 3-4cm is corrected) becomes a very low density one or sometimes impossible.
For Good survival of hair grafts, too much and too little density, both are problematic.
We also dont plant grafts with too high density as this may affect hair growth adversely. Whenever a follicular unit is implanted in the skin, it cuts the blood vessels below causing a relative lack of blood supply to the newly placed hair follicle. If this is severe the unit may not survive for long time. Imagine is a centimetre of instead of making 50 punctures to implant the follicle, 100 punctures are made. Theoretically the damage to blood vessels would be twice and hence twice the reduction in the blood supply which will ultimately result in poor survival of the units. The final outcome by this logic is sparse or poor hair growth. However in recent studies even the densities of >100 FU/cm2 have shown a survival of almost 100% of the units. In our experience too lack of blood supply has never been a problem and high density transplantation show hair growth pattern similar to regular hair transplantation albeit more dense growth. However this is a real worrisome problem in the patients with diabetes and atherosclerosis where blood circulation to the skin is already compromised. We don’t perform high density sessions in these patients.
Do I really need a High Density Hair?
Most of us course want a high hair density, who doesn’t?. The question is only if there is adequate donor grafts. High density hair transplants are done generally if there is ample donor hair grafts in the permanent zone. It is also done if you have a very small area of baldness with stabilised hair loss.
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Cost of the surgery
We have managed to not make the cost of surgery exceed budget of most people by using many new technologies and techniques. This has ensured the burden of cost is not put on patients. So no need to worry.
To Summarise..
We perform high density hair transplants of up to 110FUs/cm2 in selected cases taking care that we don’t overuse and waste the donor supply of the follicular units required in the future. In cases of Grade IV and above with no/unusable body hair, we go for densities of 45FU/cm2. Sometimes we may perform surgery in 2 stages of 45FU/cm2 with a gap of 2-6 months in order to achieve densities equivalent to 90-110FU/cm2 . How we specialize in this is in the section of “Ultra high density hair transplant”