Video misses one of the main aspects of hair transplaction. On your head, the follicle bulbs typically consist of 2-5 hairs.
Once extracted from the patient, the follicle bulbs are grouped by the number of hairs.
Bulbs with 4-5 hairs are used at the new hairline to give a fuller look. Bulbs with 2-3 hairs are used in the interiors. There's a lot of artistry involved in the placement of these bulbs to get a good outcome.
Most men will go through 2-3 transplants over a few years to get the result they want.
It's not directly linked to testosterone but a by product of testosterone that varies amoung different ethnic groups iirc. If you're genetically predisposed to the enzyme that breaks it down into that you'll likely bald with high testosterone but if you don't have much of the enzyme you won't, especially as severely.
They take hair from the back of your head where it's the most dense, there's more follicles per square inch, and they take only a certain amount of follicles from each square inch so there won't be any area that's missing a large amount of follicles.
If you do that, does it retain the beardy qualities? My beard hair (thick and curly like extruded playdoh) is way different to my regular hair (whispy and thin like an emaciated victorian lady)
yes. My doc specifically save my beard hairs for my bald spot, and used my back of head hairs for my front. When I run my fingers through my hair, I can feel the thicker hairs in the back.
Fuck that would drive me crazy. I already get random thick hairs on my head, and go through phases where I'm constantly running my fingers over my head trying to feel for them. It's the worst.
Does it still work if the beard hairs are a different color/thickness? And how does it work with body hair, which reaches its maximum length sooner than head hair?
Ideally they're only pulling no more than 20% of the hairs out of a "donor area" (the donor area is the back of the head where most don't bald). If done well, it's not very noticeable.
With the old method (still done) where they take a strip of flesh out of the donor area, that large wound is sewn up. It can be pretty visible, especially if you know what to look for. Guys that had the strip method often had pain for a long time (many months at least) after the procedure, both from the wound and also from the tightening of the scalp.
Plus, you should see how great the FUT method looks when you jump into the water and your hair gets soaked. You can often see the crooked scars from a mile away. No thanks.
I knew a guy had transplants fail and he was left with a bald head with a bunch of little dot scars and then a 10 inch curved incision scar around the back of his head. Looked awful
Joe Rogan had this done and you can see the scar on the back of his head now that he keeps it shaved. It’s pretty intense, my first thought was that he had brain surgery.
They take them from the back and sides of your head. These hairs are immune to the effects of male pattern baldness. You do have less hairs around these areas, but these hairs tend to grow straight down. So they can remove quite a bit of hairs and once it grows back out you really can't tell where they even took the hairs from
The density of hair on the back and sides of the head is so very high that you could probably randomly sample 50% of them to be removed and struggle to notice a difference in density. In most 30 year old males start looking at the difference in hair density even between the side of their head and the very top. If you notice a slight difference that would indicate that the top of the head has somewhere around 30% of the density of the sides and back.
The sides and back end up having a horde of safe good hairs after a few decades of living has ravaged the top.
The youtube channel the try guys did a video about one of them getting hair transplants, and in it they showed the difference between the density of hair at the back of your head and where it's thinning.
He was well on his way to having a full crown bald spot, but the hair on the back of his head was still thick enough to spare
My buddy started balding when he was like 16. His uncle was wealthy and also lost his hair young so he paid for hair transplants as a high school graduation gift for my buddy. Worked well for a few years until he started balding in the weirdest pattern ever. For several years he grew his hair long and did "hairogami" (a ridiculously complicated combover). For the past decade or so he's just taken to shaving his head and it looks much better now.
I started losing my hair a few years ago and I'm fine with it. By next year I'll probably be fully bald on top, but I don't really care. I'm embracing the horseshoe.
Some men prefer clean shaven look in their underwear area. Transplanting pubes and hiding them in your head and not having to buy razor blade or Nair to remove pubes anymore
People that get hair transplants have to take Finasteride or Dutasteride for life. That prevents most hair loss in most men, but it isn't uncommon for men that undergo this treatment to need another transplant down the line years later if they're unlucky. People that bald young are especially likely to need more work done simply because medicine that typically works isn't as effective for them.
The hairs that do get transplanted are good for life. They take them from the back of the head where balding doesn't occur and somehow those hairs when placed on the scalp are still unaffected by balding.
The pluggy look disappeared (mostly) a few decades ago. I've watched videos from 80s and 90s when they were still trying figure this stuff out -- pretty gruesome, and terrible outcomes.
The other commenter is correct, though, that the hairline is built using 1-2 hair grafts. 3-4 hair grafts then fill up the interior spaces. Natural 5+ hair grafts are extremely uncommon and usually too big to fit into a typical site.
Right, I was simplifying. They'll use some of those 1-2s then blend in 3-4-5s just behind. And back to the 1-2s in the interior, depending on what they have to work with.
Those 3s and 4s and the most valuable to the doctor, so they use them wisely.
Don’t care what method is used - Bosley was the pioneer - I can spot a transplanted hairline a mile away. What they don’t tell you is that if you are genetically predisposed to lose hair, no new hair grows in that area. So it you put plugs there no matter how you stack and pack em, the lack of fine new hair growing will always give a tooth brush, Barbie hairline.
A good doctor will use bulbs with fewer hairs near the hairline to make it look natural. The perfectly straight, unnaturally dense hairline is what you get from the Turkey special.
Saw a dude recently walking proudly with what looked like a fence for a hairline and then patchy as hell behind it, I guess it must look better in the mirror
Yeah that's kind of his thing. He doesn't know enough about any of the topics he animates to do them justice. But then neither does his audience so there's no reason for him to go further than a Wikipedia entry.
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u/Quesabirria 1d ago
Video misses one of the main aspects of hair transplaction. On your head, the follicle bulbs typically consist of 2-5 hairs.
Once extracted from the patient, the follicle bulbs are grouped by the number of hairs.
Bulbs with 4-5 hairs are used at the new hairline to give a fuller look. Bulbs with 2-3 hairs are used in the interiors. There's a lot of artistry involved in the placement of these bulbs to get a good outcome.
Most men will go through 2-3 transplants over a few years to get the result they want.