Graft Numbers

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In Your Hair Transplant Procedures, Do You Do Megasessions or Very Large Graft Sessions?

March 16th, 2007

Q: Some surgeons are doing hair transplants using 5,000 to 6,000 grafts in a single surgery. Looking at the cases in your photo gallery, it seems like your hair transplants involve many fewer grafts per surgery. Do you do such large graft numbers in a single hair restoration procedure?
A: The goal in surgical hair restoration [...]

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How Many Hair Transplant Grafts Will Give Best Results and do Megasessions Yield Best Cosmetic Benefit?

February 22nd, 2006

Q: There is such a big deal made on the chats about people getting Megasessions of over 4000 grafts per session. When I look at the pictures on your website, the results look great, but I am surprised that not many grafts were used compared to what is being talked about.
A: My goal is not [...]

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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 [...]

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In Hair Transplant, What Percentage of Telogen Phase Follicles on Donor Strip Wasted?

July 14th, 2005

Q: When a donor strip is taken out during a hair transplant and separated under the microscope, you can read on the internet that there is a wastage of grafts (about 15%), because of those unseen telogen hairs. What do you think about that and how does it affect the hair restoration?
A: The Telogen phase [...]

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Microscopic Dissection Article in ‘Skin & Allergy News’ Features Dr. Bernstein

February 14th, 1999

The dissecting microscope takes some getting used to, but using it makes more efficient use of donor hair during follicular unit transplantation than magnifying loupes with transillumination, reported Dr. Robert Bernstein.

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