In Hair Transplant with Follicular Unit Transplantation, How Many Grafts in Average Donor Strip?

August 16th, 2005

Q: If I had a hair transplant using Follicular Unit Transplantation, how many grafts would be in a 15cm by 1cm donor strip, on average?

A: In a person with average donor density there are approximately 100 follicular units per square centimeter. A 15 cm long strip would have slightly less than 1500 grafts due to the tapering of the strip ends.

Therefore, in a hair transplant of 1500 follicular unit grafts, one should take out a 17 cm x 1cm strip (that includes the tapered ends). This is 15cm2.

Topic: Graft Numbers

Tags: Donor Hair Density / Donor Strip / Follicular Units per Square Centimeter / Number of Grafts Per Hair Transplant
Posted by Robert M. Bernstein M.D. at 3:08 pm


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