Welcome to the Foundation for Hair Restoration's BLOG. As Founder and Director of the Foundation for Hair Restoration, and one of the top hair transplant surgeons, I feel a responsibility to educate those experiencing hair loss on the common sense, intelligent approach to surgical hair restoration. After more than 14 years of specializing exclusively in surgical hair restoration, my track record of having literally thousands and thousands of happy patients speaks for itself.
As an American Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon and American Board Hair Restoration Surgeon, I attempt to apply aesthetic plastic surgery principles to surgical hair restoration, allowing for the most aesthetic, natural appearing results. All of the other Foundation for Hair Restoration Surgeons are also highly skilled and trained to achieve similar results. And with the microscopic technique of follicular unit grafting, for the first time, it is in fact possible to attain restorations that, even with the hair cut short, look completely natural.
I am proud of the top notch devoted doctors, technicians and staff affiliated with The Foundation for Hair Restoration. We are pleased to invite all of our visitors to learn from the questions of others who find themselves with a similar concern: hair thinning or loss issues and other hair related concerns.
How many grafts can be done in a single session?
Posted January 20, 2010 7:23 AM in Megasession Follicular Unit Micrografting
How many grafts can be done in a single session?
The number of grafts depends on several factors. Your donor area will determine how many grafts are possible for you (how thick your hair is in the donor area), and the surgeon will determine how many grafts you need. You may think that you need 4000 grafts but your donor area may only supply 2700. Dr. Epstein has done 4500 grafts on a patient in a day, although the conditions (donor hair density and need) rarely allow this.
Posted by Jeffrey S. Epstein, MD, FACS
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Why do some doctors tell patients that hair graft procedures of large numbers, say over 1500 grafts, are risky?
Posted October 29, 2008 12:06 PM in Megasession Follicular Unit Micrografting
I remember, ten years ago, when some of us started performing procedures of 1000 grafts- called megasessions back then. Today, procedures of 2000, 3000, even more grafts can be safely (and are routinely) performed.
However, to properly perform these procedures, the surgeon needs to have a sufficiently large enough team of assistants capable of cutting these grafts and efficiently working with the surgeon to then place them. Having a team of 19 full-time assistants, some of whom have been with me 10 or more years, means that a 2400 grafts procedure, say, takes us 3-4 or so hours- well within the safe time zone that assures proper hair growth.
Posted by Jeffrey S. Epstein, MD, FACS
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