What is the difference between a graft and follicle hair transplant?

In general the term hair graft is synonymous with a hair follicle.  A graft generally means a tissue for transplantation.  In modern hair transplant surgery a hair graft is a hair follicle.

We try to standardize our language in the world of hair transplants but it can certainly be confusing. A graft is either 1, 2, 3 or sometimes 4 hair follicles. This is also known as a follicular unit. When micrografting was developed, the natural groupings of hairs (1, 2, 3 or 4 hairs) were called follicular units and were separated to create grafts. Therefore a follicular unit should be the same thing as a graft. This means if you have 1000 grafts, depending on how your hair follicles are naturally grouped, you would have at least 2,000 or more hairs. It would be unethical to take those same 1000 grafts and split ever follicular unit into a single hair graft simply to charge more by calling it a 2,000 graft transplant. FUE and FUT grafts will have the same terminology as I have explained above even though the grafts are removed differently.

In most clinics a follicle is one hair shaft of hair and a follicuar unit is all the shafts in one graft.  The terminology isnt standardized across the baord so its important to know if you are getting hairs, follicles, or grafts and what that means.