Frequently asked questions

Yes, within the limits of your donor supply. Hair taken from the back and sides of the scalp is not sensitive to the hormone that drives pattern loss, so once it is moved it keeps growing on its new site. What a transplant cannot do is create hair you do not have — the donor area is a fixed budget, and good planning is mostly about spending it well.

The transplanted follicles are permanent. The hair around them is not — pattern loss continues in untreated areas, which is why we plan the first session with the next ten years in mind rather than filling the most visible gap and hoping.

That depends almost entirely on angle, direction and density. Hair grows out of the scalp at a shallow, consistent angle that changes across the head, and single-hair units belong at the hairline with larger groupings behind them. Get those wrong and the result reads as surgery no matter how many grafts were placed.

After the first few weeks, no — in the great majority of cases. The giveaway in older work was spacing: too few grafts spread over too large an area, or a hairline built as a straight line. A hairline is irregular by nature and has to be rebuilt that way.

Usually one of three reasons: grafts placed at the wrong angle, a hairline that is too low or too straight for the patient's age, or density so thin that light passes through to the scalp. All three are planning errors, not technique errors.

It is an outpatient procedure done under local anaesthetic with optional light sedation. The risks are the ones that come with any minor skin surgery: temporary swelling, numbness that resolves over weeks, and a small infection risk managed with normal wound care. We review your medical history and medications at consultation and will tell you if surgery is a poor idea for you.

The transplanted hairs shed in the first few weeks — this is expected. New growth starts around month three or four, becomes obvious at six months, and keeps thickening through twelve to eighteen months. Judge the result at a year, not at six weeks.

Most people take three to five days. Any redness in the recipient area settles over the first week or two; if you work in a public-facing role you may want a full week.

The anaesthesia is the part people dread, so it is the part we have spent the most effort on. Nerve blocks numb the whole field before any work starts, and the great majority of patients report no pain during surgery. Afterwards, a mild over-the-counter painkiller is usually enough.

Neither is universally better. FUT 2.0 moves more hair in one session and leaves a single fine line that hair covers; FUE 2.0 leaves no line but scatters small round scars across a wider donor area and typically yields fewer grafts per session. If you shave your head to the skin, FUE is the safer choice. If you want maximum density in one sitting, FUT usually wins.

Four to six hours for a typical session, including a break for lunch. You are awake, you can talk, read or watch something, and you go home the same day.

That is the wrong first question. Grafts are a unit of supply; density is the unit of result. Two patients with the same graft count can finish with very different coverage depending on area treated and hair calibre. We plan to a density target for the area that matters to you, then work out what graft count that requires.

By the donor area we harvest and the complexity of the plan — not per graft. Per-graft pricing creates an incentive to count generously and to spread grafts thin. A flat price for the plan removes that incentive and tells you the whole cost up front, including follow-up care.

Yes. We work with the standard medical financing providers; the coordinator will walk you through terms at consultation. A $600 deposit holds a surgery date and is credited against the procedure.

The main requirements are a donor area dense enough to spare hair, a loss pattern stable enough to plan around, general good health, and expectations that match what your donor supply can cover. Age matters less than pattern: an aggressive pattern at 24 needs a different plan from a stable one at 44.

Yes, and the planning differs. Female loss is usually diffuse rather than patterned, so we check for medical causes first, assess whether the donor area is itself thinning, and treat hairline, temples or part-line density accordingly.

Often. Old plug work can be excised and redistributed, low or straight hairlines can be softened, and visible donor scars can be camouflaged with grafts or SMP. Bring photos and any operative notes you have.

Sleeping with your head elevated for the first few nights, a prescribed wash routine from day two, no heavy exercise for two weeks, and no direct sun on the recipient area for a month. We see you at set intervals through the first year.