With 3000 Grafts FUE HT, What Percentage of 3k Grafts Should Contain 1 Hair Grafts in a Normal Person? (photo)

If you are a normal caucasian male, then your FUE had lots of missed grafts.In other words, the doctor missed the 2 hair follicle and only got one.Some clinics may call this hair multiplication or cloning (taking partial grafts)Call it what you may, but your 3000 graft FUE will give you less fullness than a 3000 graft strip surgery.If you want to give your doctor a benefit of doubt, maybe the doctor had a reason to harvest only single hair grafts.  Maybe you were a FUE 'negative' patient.  Some patients are not good FUE candidates.  To be clear I am not casting blame on the doctor's skills.  You may have been a bad FUE candidate.Dr. Kabaker and Dr. Rassman put it more eloquently in their answers.

You have 2 possible scenarios to consider.  Some patients have many, if not all, the hair grafts naturally occur in 1 and 2 follicles per graft.  This is rare, but it does happen.  You often can tell once starting the procedure if that is your case since the team can clearly see the number of hairs per graft.

The other scenario, which is surprisingly common in unscrupulous clinics and/or clinics that dont focus on FUE only is that the grafts where cut into singles to increase the number i.e 1000 grafts where extracted with 2-3 hairs each and then cut into 3000 grafts with many having single hairs. This decreases work load on the team but results arent that good.  

Whenever choosing a hair transplant clinic its a good idea to consider places that dont do anything but hair transplants.  Also, in the world of transplants you can find clinics that are dedicated to FUE or clinics dedicated to FUT.  

The normal follicular unit density in a Caucasian is as follows:  20% one hair, 60% two hairs, 20% three or more hairs each. This is an average and it could vary up or down but I am assuming that you are Caucasian. The Asian has a higher percentage of one hair grafts than the Caucasian but at least 50% should have 2 hairs each. Could the surgeon have damaged the hairs and reduced the yield? I would ask him. The 65% one hair grafts reflects either a technical problem of a patient that had the diagnosis of Diffuse Unpatterned Alopecia (DUPA) which should be a contra-indication for a hair transplant. You should ask your surgeon to review your records with him/her. I am assuming that this count you gave me is the surgical record count.