hairs or grafts?????

[Harry]

Hello there! I have been looking for a clinic for a few weeks now (with the opportunity I want to thank www.tophairlossclinic.com  for the help and for booking my consultations) what I notice is that some clinics refer to hairs and others to grafts. This has really confused me and I am trying to figure out the difference. Certainly the ones that mention hairs give me much higher placement numbers. What I understand is that a graft can have more than 1 hair.

[ScalpChampion]

You got it right, a graft can have 1, 2, 3, 4 even 7 hairs sometimes. Internationally most clinics use grafts as a "unit of measurement" and as a unit of payment and I think that is the right thing to do. I think the clinics that use hairs as a unit of measurement do so for sensationalism or even to charge more.

[Harry]

You got it right, a graft can have 1, 2, 3, 4 even 7 hairs sometimes. Internationally most clinics use grafts as a "unit of measurement" and as a unit of payment and I think that is the right thing to do. I think the clinics that use hairs as a unit of measurement do so for sensationalism or even to charge more.

hmmm yes but both of the clinics that talked about hairs and that I had a consultation with, didn't charge by the hair, but by the session and they told me that they will take out as many hairs as they can in one session between 5-8 hours. One of them even gave me minimum placement of hairs (3000 hairs). So they don't charge by the hair, but by the session.

[HairlossFighter]

A graft can indeed have more than one hair (multi hair grafts). Therefore, apart from grafts and hairs, a very important parameter that all serious doctors record is the hair/graft ratio. For example, a ratio of 2 states that on average a graft has 2 hairs; theoretically and with a ratio of 2 the 3000 hairs is 1500 grafts. I, however, disagree on which is better to use (hairs or grafts). I believe that it is the hairs that give the result and not the grafts and so I think it is more appropriate as a term. For example a case with 1500 grafts and a ratio of 2 will give 3000 hairs, another case (with common hair characteristics) with 1500 grafts and a ratio of 2.7 will give 4,050 hairs. That is, two cases with the same number of grafts can give terribly different results if the extraction ratio is higher and thus if more hairs are implanted. The same applies to final density after an HT. If for example you put in 40 grafts/cm2 and the ratio is 2 you will get 80hairs/cm2 if the ratio is 2.7 you will get 108, the difference is huge....

[HairHopeful]

@HairlossFighter, what can I say, the info you shared was really useful. I think I agree with you!

[HairQuest]

Be careful though, single-hair cuttings are needed because they are used in the front hairline since (for a strange reason) in nature our grafts there are almost all single-hair!

[HairlossFighter]

Be careful though, single-hair cuttings are needed because they are used in the front hairline since (for a strange reason) in nature our grafts there are almost all single-hair!

This is correct!!!

[ScalpChampion]

the most common mistake in hair transplants are the multi-haired grafts, which are implanted into the hairline and give a completely unnatural appearance....