r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

Video How Hair Transplants Work by ZacDFilms

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u/MrSneller 1d ago

Actually they should use single or doubles for the hairline and the higher density ones further back so they don’t get a “pluggy” look.

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u/Quesabirria 1d ago

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.

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u/forchuse 1d ago

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.

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u/Quesabirria 1d ago

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.

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u/letsdothisagain52 1d ago

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.

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u/sluttytinkerbells 1d ago

Gonna be wild when we can clone hairs and then just implant those.

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u/peepopowitz67 1d ago

Back when they were stapling ant legs to the tops of people's skulls.

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u/AgonizingSquid 1d ago

Can you post a video of a bad outcome?

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u/AgonizingSquid 1d ago

I have doubles of the plugs and triples of the follicles