Can a Person with No Hair Loss Get Hair Transplant?

assuming your scalp is healthy and you have good hormone balance there is no problem with using your own hair to add density in specific areas or even across a large area. This can be done even if you don't suffer from hair loss but just want to thicken things out.  Again the limiting factor would be the quality of the donor hair and donor site

Only a small % of women that I see in my practice are good candidates for hair transplants, due to the fact that it's typically diffused thinning all over. Another area of concern would be if you have no hair loss, when you make the incisions in the recipient area, you are at risk of damaging the existing hair follicles. Often times you will have a net loss. We would want to look at the scalp and follicles under magnification to determine if this would be worthwhile for the patient. more

Hair transplants occasionally can be used to thicken hair, but the problem is if their natural hair is relatively close together the transplant runs the risk of damaging hair. There must be wide enough gaps between the hairs in order to put the transplant in. Otherwise, you are killing perfectly good hair.

You certainly could be a candidate and if you have the adequate donor sites to not experience a loss from the scalp, you may choose to do it. Thin hair is always an obstacle to having densely appearing recipient areas. You should use your judgement about this, butt there is no contraindication to performing a hair grafting procedure. Good luck to you. Frank Rieger M.D. Tampa Plastic Surgeon

Hair transplant in women is done when there are small areas of loss, but you have to have a good donor area from where to take the donor hair. This is done after evaluating the hair loss pattern and progression.

Under highly selected situations transplants may thicken the hair in localized areas. There are a number of differing conditions that cause hair loss in women . Thinning hair in females has to be considred on an individual basis if surgery is to be considered. Realistic expectations are a must. Some women have thick hair and want a lower hairline . They are usually excellent candidates for surgery.

Patients in good health and no identified medical cause for hair loss are good candidates for hair transplant regardless of sex.  The usual pattern of hair loss is central thinning as opposed to a frank bald area as seen in men. Dr. ES

If you want to thicken the hair in a small area such as the hairline and front of the scalp, limited improvement can be achieved with transplants. I am assuming you have diffuse loss over the entire scalp. I always recommend women with thin or thinng hair get a good medical evaluation to determine if there is any hormonal imbalance.

About 30% of my practice is female hair restoration. I would say in your condition, i.e., someone who does not have thinning hair but just wants it thicker, I can get a successful outcome for you based on these limitations: 1. How thick your hair is. The thicker the hair, particularly in the donor area, the easier for me to achieve a thicker hair result in the tranpsplanted zone. 2. Curl. Although density can be easily achieved with straight hair, some curl can help. 3. Targeting... more

Hair loss in women is sometimes due to medical conditions which, when treated, will see regrowth of the hair. If your hair is indeed experiencing thinning without an underlying medical cause, it is difficult to simply increase hair density with a transplant because the donor area is often as thin as the recipient area. I would suggest visiting with a hair loss surgeon or a dermatologist to determine if your hair loss is treatable with medication and to determine if hair restoration would be... more

Women will experience thinning in the back and front so the donor region may be no thicker than the recipient area.  I find it very difficult to thicken thinning hair using a surgical approach.