Silky Hair and Hair Transplant?

Silky hair is not a contraindication for surgery.  Everyone needs an examination first before they can consider surgery.  Everyone needs to have a specific goal and understanding of what is possible with a hair transplant surgery.  Everyone is different.

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When you say silky hair I assume you mean low caliber hair. Now lets look at your question from a different perspective. Would the same number of low caliber silky hairs give as much coverage as coarser high caliber hair? The answer is no. The reason for this is that what we see in the transplanted area is hair 'volume' and not hair number. The volume of a single coarse hair will always be more than silky hair because its radius is more (remember pi X r2 X l) and so scalp coverage on a per hair basis will be more for coarser hair.

Now lets look at the other aspect of same problem. Can we give adequate volume and coverage while using silky hair for transplant? The answer is yes. All we have to do is simply increase the density of transplant. If there are more hair per square cm, the volume will increase and so would coverage. However, one should keep in mind that there is a limit to this increase and the quantum of surgery would depend on many more things than just mathematics. A personalised evaluation by a good hair transplant surgeon would give you best answers.

 

Silky hair does not rule you out for a transplant but it means you wont get the same results as in all the before and after photos.   Those photos/patients are often thick hair follicle patients.  So again, you can move forward but have realistic expectations. Discussing this with the physician before the procedure is important.