Is it safe to implant 6000 grafts in 2 days FUE technique?

Question

For FUE my doctor suggested to implant 6000 grafts and my question is my doctor told me to transplant all the 6000 grafts in two days with out any time gap is this safe?

Jae Pak, MD · Answer

The results depend on a variety of other factors such as how long you keep your hair, how you style your hair, the hair color to skin color contrast, curl of your hair, the thickness of your hair.  If you have very fine straight hair that you keep very short, a hair transplant surgery will NOT look good.
The overall success of a hair transplant surgery depends on: (1) artistic and technical skill of your doctor and team (2) communication between you and your doctor to establish a realistic goal.All surgeries (no matter how minor) has risks. It is important to note that your donor area will always look "thinner" proportionate to the number of hairs taken out after a FUE harvesting surgery.  The hairs will NOT grow back from the donor area (where it was taken). It is for you and your doctor to discuss these risks versus the benefits.

Christine M. Shaver, MD · Answer

A 6,000-graft procedure would be a very large hair transplant. Transplanting these many grafts at once would necessitate grafts being placed very close together and, in this situation, the blood supply may not be adequate to support growth significantly compromising graft survival.
Another reason for concern is that when harvesting, FUE yields about 20 grafts/cm2. A 6,000-graft procedure would require 300 cm2. Since the donor area is about 30 cm long, this would require a donor height of 10 cm, clearly extending beyond the permanent zone of the scalp of most patients.

Munir Somji, BSc, MBBS · Answer

As my surgical mentor once said “when you start off your surgical career you make a large incision, as you become confident the incision becomes smaller and as you become more experienced (experience complications) your incision becomes larger again.’ The same applies for hair transplants. Initially, as a surgeon, one limits the number of grafts to 2000 grafts and then due to pressure of other ‘sham clinics’ offering more grafts at lower prices one may offer more grafts. But if one is honest implanting more than 2500 grafts in one FUE session increases complication rates, reduces graft survival and depletes the donor area. Nothing can replace experience and experience tells us that more than 2500 grafts in one sessions is a no no.

Michael Vories, MD · Answer

While it is safe to harvest 6000 grafts in two consecutive days, there needs to be a careful examination of the donor area to see if it can support this amount of grafts. While we have extracted this amount of grafts in two days, it is the rare patient that has the donor supply to support this.

Kapil Dua, MBBS, MS · Answer

In my opinion, it is practically not possible to harvest 6000 grafts from the Indian patients in one go from the scalp only..If you do so, you will land with overharvesting of the donor area.Then, you will have to undergo another surgery to fix the same with body hair.So, it will be better to do it in multiple sessions separated by a time period of 3-6 months.

Justin Rome, MD · Answer

If you are considering having a procedure that will produce 6000 grafts, you should also be made aware that that will create another problem (over harvested donor area) to supposedly fix your main concern (recipient area thinning).  Your should really ask the Doctor perfoming this surgery to show you pictures of a donor area after it’s healed from this big of a procedure.  You will have severe donor are depletion for sure.

Ilhan Serdaroglu, MD · Answer

All hair transplant operation performed in just one day and takes about 6-7 hours under local anesthesia. I harvest  the grafts in 2-3 hours   and get max 4000- 4500  grfats .  it is impossible to  get 6000  grfats in one or 2 consecutive days .

Jeffrey Epstein, MD, FACS · Answer

To be quite honest, those are ridiculous numbers of grafts-  unless he meant hairs, which would be around 2800 to 3000 grafts-  still a rather large number, but likely to be safely performed.Typically I limit my FUE procedures to 2200 to 2400 grafts (4500 or so hairs), with the ability to always return for a second procedure in the future.  These procedures this size will avoid the risk of damage to the donor area, and likely will improve the final results.  I will however harvest beard and or chest hairs when appropriate at the same time as these scalp hairs to provide further coverage.

Cory Torgerson, MD, PhD, FRCSC - Account Suspended · Answer

Trying to do any procedure over 2 days will already lower your success rate. Trying to do 6000 grafts is not only impossible to do in 1 sitting but even anything close to that will lower your success rate to 60% or less. This will also deplete your donor area and leave very visible areas of over-harvesting. I would never recommend doing this amount in 1 session.

William Rassman, MD (retired) · Answer

As the doctor who pioneered the FUE, I can tell you with authority that 6000 FUE grafts will deplete your donor area and produce a see-through donor area. This is not a fixable situation.  What is the doctor's plan other than to get your money?  What happens if you continue to bald over time, what then?  Have you thought through this process? If you are under 25, then you are about to make a terrible mistake

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