Is 1000 FUE grafts enough? (Photos)

You can add 1000 grafts but if you lose 1000 of your native hairs you would be left with no gain.  Thus it is best to see a doctor for an examination and consultation to make sure surgery would be right for you,

Thank you for submitting your question, at your age, would recommend to continue your finasteride. PRP, laser cap and taking amino acids is also recommended. When you are ready for your FUE, approx.  2000 grafts would help create more density.  Best wishes.

MarcoRollo,Greetings, and thank you for your question. I enlarged your top down pic and it looks to me like you are developing a crown lost pattern that is progressing forward to the mid-scalp area. It may not stop there. The fact that you have had to foresight to be on Propecia for the past years is good, but distressing that despite that your hair loss appears to be progressing. I would recommend that you consider maximizing your medical regimen to include minoxidil 5% twice per day, biotin 5 mg daily, nizoral shampoo every other day , and Lasercap Pro every other day. SMP may decrease the contrast with your scalp making it look thicker in the crown /midscalp area. I would reserve your available donor for maintaining the frontal area. Of course, an in person evaluation would be the best option to start the process.Kind regards,Bernardino A. Arocha, MD

Thank you for all of your pictures - the question you ask is particularly tricky because of the location.  Transplants to the crown in young patients are difficult because we simply do not know where your hair loss is heading.  What is your family history of hair loss?  Are you following any particular pattern similar to people in your family? Are you one of the ones to start hair loss the earliest, or is this pretty common? The reason all these questions are important is because we need to understand where you are headed - the last thing we would want is use donor hairs that would come in handy later on in future hairloss.  The other question to eval is density at the recipient site.  This determines how many grafts you would need pending yield after transplant.  My suggestion to you is go into your consultations knowing this information, and make sure your hair restoration surgeon discusses all these issues with you.  Best of luck!

Your hair loss area seems to be 80 square centimeters with a density of more or less 20 follicular units per square centimeter. Your estimated hair caliber looks like 55-60 microns. Probably your hair loss will increase with time in spite of being on medication. Satisfactory coverage of the crown area should be 50 grafts per square centimeter. So for a full natural and satisfactory result you will need about 2400 grafts in total. I don't have enough photos of your donor area to be exact, however, from what I can see, given your donor area, I might suggest that you protect some grafts for future transplantation using a combination of FUE for the first surgery plus micro-pigmentation.