How many grafts needed for mid and crown area of head? (Photo)

Dear gauravmishra,

Thank you for posting this question. You have a substantial amount of crown loss, extending into your bridge and frontal forelock. 3000+ grafts would be indicated. Also, it is important to consider methods to limit the amount of hair loss you will experience in the future. If you're going to have a hair restoration surgery, you don't want to end up in a situation where you are chasing further hair loss with multiple surgeries. This is especially true given the fact that there is plenty of more crown loss you could have, and given the fact that there are so many effective ways to prevent hair loss. These include the medication finasteride, low-level laser therapy, platelet-rich plasma procedures (which are non-surgical in nature), among others. I suggest you talk to your surgeon about both the number of grafts, and methods to prevent further hair loss.

Hello,All techniques, including handheld FUE, strip technique, and ARTAS will have some transections or grafts which were damaged during harvest.  Our numbers (which we believe translates to most other hair centers) were around 35-50% transection rate with handheld FUE, 15% transection rate with strip surgery (due to location of bevel of knife along the whole periphery of strip), and less than 5% transection rate with ARTAS.  In my own transplant procedure, I had 1000 grafts harvested and 1 transection with harvest!!!  If a patient paid for 1000 grafts, does this mean they paid for 1000 harvest attempts or 1000 legitimate grafts.Best,Dr. Anil Shah

You can certainly have 3500 grafts to your crown but if your expectation or understanding is wrong, you will have a disappointing result.  Thus it is best to see a doctor in person to discuss these issues.  Hair transplant is not about "number of grafts".