Its very difficult to see the numbers, the area or type of hair you have from the photos supplied, in my experience anything over 1500-1750 grafts on an average patient is the most that can be harvested successfully, without over-harvesting your donor site. I often see patients who have been told a number and don't fully understand what that number actually means. It may be your 3,500 is just hairs, not grafts, and there is a big difference between the two. Ask your surgeon for the surgical report, that should give the right information; confirming the number of single, two and three or more hair grafts. An average of 2.4 hairs over a surgery per graft is normal. So your 3,500 would possibly be more like 1,458 actual grafts. This number would normally give a reasonable result, with an experienced team. Good luck.
FUE, with even the best donor hair will not cover with any reasonable density. Even strip harvesting will not yield enough. You have from your photos a large area and if your expectations are to cover the whole area with better that 50% density I would not recommend surgery. Look at what the anti-adrogen drugs can do first. Hope this helps.
From the photos you have published, I would recommend using either Finasteride or Dutasteride first, as this anti-androgen medication would, in your case give much better results than surgery. Your crown looks to be thinning in a large area and if completely empty would take in excess of 3,000 grafts (7,000+ hairs)
Depends on what your doctor means by 3000, from the photo you have posted I would say around 1,000 - 1200 individual incisions have been made. If your surgery was an FUE, then that would be a reasonable number. FUE "mega" Sessions of 2,500 - 3,000 are rare, as most patients just don't have the donor tissue to support large harvesting sessions. I would recommend you go back to the clinic and ask for an exact number. Is it hairs, follicles, clusters or actual grafts (and the size of each graft)
Two Weeks is just not long enough. It is a tough waiting game to see the results. But as long as the surgeon did the best he could with your available donor, you will get a result.
