How to understand the exact number of follicles required for my hair transplant?

There is always a question in our mind that how many hair follicles we will be requiring when we are looking for a hair transplant procedure. Do we have enough donor capacity? Are my hair follicles good enough to be extracted and planted in the recipient area? Will they grow? Etc. There are several questions which revolves in our mind before getting the procedures done. In attempt to understand the actual number of follicles required for our hair transplants first we should know as how many follicles we have in our scalp currently and how many follicles we had before. Generally we possess close to 130 to 140 thousand hair strands on our scalp including our cranial area hairs and hairs on the sides and back of the scalp. The cranial zone consists of 30 to 40 thousand hair follicles and majority of the hair follicles are clustered on the forelock zone and crown. We tend to lose the cranial hairs starting from the receding hairline till crown. Now since the density of close to 120 to 130 hairs in per sq cm area cannot be achieved by hair transplant surgeon due to surgical and natural constraints of all the implanted tissues will not be able to grow if densely packed as the hair bearing tissue are healthy and thicker on the donor area and require enough number of blood vessels to hold and accommodate the hair bearing tissues post implants. A minimum gap is required between each implant and an optimum density of 50 to 60 grafts in per sq cm area can be achieved by top surgeons performing the new method of Sapphire micro FUE which enables the miniscule channels made to accommodate the hair bearing tissues with accurate, direction, density and depth. With this method our hair line hair transplant requires around 2500 to 3500 follicles, forelock zone requires 4000 to 5000 follicles, mid scalp zone around 6000 to 7000 follicles and crown 3500 to 4000 follicles for optimum density. This figures depends on the quality of the grafts available on the donor area which may contain 2,3 & 4 hair follicles from each follicular unit grafts. The number of follicles recommended as shown in the above illustrated photo are also based on the stage of hair loss according to Norwood hamilton scale of male and Suvins scale of female pattern baldness. From stage 2 to 4 people can avail hair transplants and achieve desired results but people in more advanced stages like 5,6,7 is advisable to go ahead with hair transplant because of the large number of follicle requirement and the limited donor capacity. A visit to the nearest MAX hair clinic