How many times a person can go through hair transplantation?

This depend on the person's donor hair supply.In GENERAL, I usually say, you can harvest about 8000 grafts in a person's life time.I have on several occasions harvested over 10,000 grafts with multiple surgeries.In general, you can divide this maximum number of grafts in to the surgeries.Example:  4 surgeries of 2000 grafts each will total 8000 grafts.

Hi and thanks for your question.  There is not a certain number of transplants that a person can have.  The number depends on the density of the hair in the donor areas on the back and sides of the scalp which is where we can borrow hair follicles from.  Patients who have very dense hair in the donor areas can do more hair transplants and patients with thin hair can do fewer sessions.  The Smartgraft device which is what I use is great because I can borrow hair follicles evenly over the entire donor area as opposed to the old fashioned technique where a strip of scalp is removed from the back of the scalp and a long scar is created.

 It’s depends of the number of grafts available in your donor area . Each patients are different.The hair number and hair thickness is important for the coverage on your donor area after hair transplantation.

The number of hair restoration surgeries that a person can undergo will depend on the supply of donor follicles that remain. These, of course, would be used as grafts for subsequent operations.Donor follicles are conventionally derived from the head. But if these regions become depleted, it is possible to acquire up to thousands additional grafts from body regions such as the face, neck, chest, abdomen etc. This would require specifically designed extraction tools and the expertise of a surgeon who specializes in the extraction of body hair. It is not uncommon for patients to undergo three or more procedures if they have the donor supplies to achieve their goals. Sometimes multiple surgeries are necessary to repair unsatisfactory results from past surgeries. Below is one such example:

There really is no absolute rule for this. It depends on the size of each procedure (# of grafts) and available donor hair. It is important regardless to choose the recipient sites carefully though, and to blend them in wirh existing hair, in order to plan for potential future hair loss. The other crucial point to consider is the looseness of the scalp in the donor area- if it is very tight from multiple prior procedures, we would be more limited in how many grafts we could get through an FUT procedure. FUE might then be an option but one must also be careful to leave enough hairs in the donor area for good coverage.Best,Dr. Donath

The answer comes down to donor reserve. With FUE, as long as sufficient donor hair is available, increasing density is possible.

The number of times a person can have a hair transplant and the number of hairs that can be transplanted are related to the number of available hairs in the donor area. You want to be able to take enough to provide a good result in the area being treated but don't take so much as to cause excessive thinning in the donor area (occipital and temporal scalp). 

It's according to how dense your donor site is. You can take from the donor area until the point at which the donor site will look too thin. The last thing you want is the appearance of baldness or thinning hair in the donor area. This can be determined only by your physician, and it is very individualized. 

We are only limited by our imagination and that depends whether we're redoing a botch job or starting new procedure with a plan on redoing a certain area in the future.I recently saw a patient that had undergone seven failed strip procedures and still required a minimum of 3000 - 3200 graphs. He's elated !He's a film producer and occasionally is required to attend formal events and was too embarrassed to take off his cap so I elected to perform a FUE procedure, and I was fortunate enough to find enough real estate and extracted almost 3000 follicular units.That procedure was a year ago and now have him plan to undergo another 2000 graphs to obtain an excellent cosmetic result that will serve him well hopefully for the rest of his life.So to answer your question it's relative whether it's planned and correctly performed or redoing a botch procedure which makes things a little more difficult. Nonetheless it can be performed quite successfully without obtaining hair from remote areas but by using the back of the head. As long as there is an adequate donor/recipient ratio then the number of procedures performed in the past is non-consequential but rather what is present at the time of the new procedure. Good-luck.

That's a great question and too often overlooked. It ranges a great deal and really comes down the question "how many donor grafts does a person have?" rather than how many transplants can a person have. A typical male has 3,000-10,000 grafts available in his lifetime to move. Numbers are slightly less in women. A very bald scalp may need 8000 grafts or more for medium density coverage. So it's easy to see that some men don't have enough donor hair to cover everything.So how many transplants can someone have? Well, if someone has 5000 grafts available, they can have 10 transplants if they are only 500 grafts each time or they can have two standard size transplants of 2500 grafts.The challenge with hair transplantation is that we can't accurately predict how many donor grafts a person will have in their lifetime until they get to the mid 40s or 50s. It's impossible. So, planning how to move grafts and how many and when in a 25 year old is so much more challenging than in a 35 year old.  For a 25 year old it's often only possible to say "You might have 2 transplants in your lifetime or you might be able to have 4" The range is a lot bigger the younger an individual is because so much is unknown.