Looking for hair transplant norwood 5 or 6? Would the results be good enough not to show on camera? (photo)

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Hello, 39 years old on the Norwood scale of 5 or 6? Been using nanofibers up until the last two years no one could tell and I started using a hair replacement. I do a lot of stuff on film and don’t want it to show I am balding. Could a HT sort this with results that would be good enough not to show on camera. I have very thick hair round the sides but the top has totally thinned. Have spoken to some places and told i only need 3000 grafts but this to me does not appear enough. Any advice.

Jae Pak, MD · Answer

The success or results of a hair transplant surgery is not about "how many" or "the number of grafts".
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.

Sanusi Umar, MD · Answer

Hair transplant surgery can be performed for Norwood 5 or 6. More advanced stages of baldness requires  the use of body hair to supplement the donor graft pool. With severe baldness (Norwood 6-7), head hair alone should not be relied upon. Here is an example of a Norwood 6 patient from the Dr.U Hair Clinic who attempted to hair transplantation through strip surgery. His grafts did not grow and he was left with immense scarring. The use of body hair was necessary to repair his results and provide the full coverage he desired. Due to their sharper growth angles, body hair grafts must be extracted  with specialized technology.

David Deutsch, MD · Answer

It sounds as if you have a good donor supply however there is a lot of scalp to cover.I think that with several procedures you can achieve significant coverage but for the purposes of high def imaging you will probably still want to use some fibers(albeit way less than you use now).

Ilker Apaydin, MD · Answer

You have very large area to cover. First option can be 3200-3600 FUE. 2000 for Crown, 1000 for Top, 600 for Frontal area. And one year later you can thin about for the second hair transplant.Second option is combined FUT+FUE Op. 3200 FUT+1500 FUE. Total 4700 grafts.1600-1800 Front1000 Top2000 CrownWith a combined operation full coverage can be done.

William Rassman, MD (retired) · Answer

When you combined one or two large hair transplant procedures with scalp micropigmentation, you can have a full enough look to appear on camera. We have done this often, as shown in the posts and video below

Looking for hair transplant norwood 5 or 6? Would the results be good enough not to show on camera? (photo)

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