A professional hair doctor considers several parameters when determining the number of grafts required for a hair replacement operation. Factors like hair thickness, hair color, and the number of grafts in the donor area greatly affect how the hair looks after a transplant.
In other words, the structure of your existing hair follicles is crucial for achieving natural, thick, and voluminous hair. The size of the recipient area and the shape of the patient’s scalp are important. They help decide how many grafts are needed.
The most commonly performed procedure in hair surgery is the 3000 graft FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction) method. This number of grafts is ideal for a single-day surgery. Transplanting too many grafts in one session can slow down the healing process.
Poor blood circulation and bad metabolic conditions can reduce the success of hair plantations. They can also lead to losing hair after transplant. Moreover, harvesting a large number of grafts from the donor area at once could lead to the risk of over-harvesting.
If you need many grafts and want to avoid a single-session hair replacement, here’s an option for you:
If your work schedule allows you to take time off, your budget can cover repeated hair implant cost, and you have no travel restrictions, then opting for a second hair transplant or even a third surgery may be a safer option.
As previously mentioned, performing 3000 hair grafts in these repeated sessions can be an ideal solution for a patient experiencing androgenetic alopecia.
If you are curious about what results to expect from a 3000 grafts hair restoration, here’s an explanation:
For Black women, a 3000 graft hair transplant surgery is often sufficient. It can effectively cover significant hair loss in the front and temple areas. Receding hairlines and large foreheads are common problems among Afro-American women.
In Asian hair transplants, because the thickness of the hair, a 3000 grafts FUE hair transplant can achieve ideal density. For Asian hair, 3000 grafts is often the upper limit. Going over this amount can be risky.
If you have Norwood Class 3 Vertex or Class 4 balding areas, you might need 4000 grafts. This is especially true if your hair is medium or light-colored. Additionally, if you have a larger scalp size, the number of grafts needed could increase to 4500.
In Norwood 2 hair loss cases with thick and dark hair, successful results can often be achieved with 2000-2500 grafts. Also, you can contact with us for hair transplant female hairline.
On our hair transplant before and after page, you can view numerous results of 3000 hair grafts transplant. We recommend reviewing the photos and videos of patients in their 30s and 40s who have undergone 3000 graft transplants. These results will give you a realistic idea of what to expect before undergoing the procedure.
If you have enough donor hair and are at Norwood 6 or 7 of the stage of male pattern baldness, we can plan your surgery.
The hair transplant surgeon does 3000 grafts on the first day and another 3000 on the second day. This adds up to 6000 grafts or more. We call this process is a mega session in Dr. Resul Yaman Hair Clinic.
The cost of a 3000 grafts hair transplant procedure is often more affordable. Hair restorations that do not push the clinic’s daily transplant limit tend to be more cost-effective.