Hair Transplant
Hair Mass (density)

The fullness of our scalp hair depends on many factors.

  • Number (Density), Every adult human is born with about 100,000 to 150,000 scalp hairs follicles. The number of follicles will never increase. In fact, the number normally decreases to about one half that number by the age of 60. Fine and transparent, human body hair is a vestige of our hairier animal forebears like chimp although the number of hair over the body did not reduce.

  • Thickness (Diameter or caliber) & length (Fine and transparent, human body hair is a vestige of our hairier animal forbears like chimp although the number of hair over the body did not reduce. This showed more skin of human. This is similar to the situation where number of hair implanted in scalp is not enough to give volume thickness and length is equally important. Thicker the hair longer the hair better the coverage.). Longer the hair covers more bald area.

  • Curl: More the curl of the hair the better the scalp coverage e.g. curly less number of scalp in Negroid give better coverage than the straight more number of hair in Caucasian.

  • Direction: More the acuteness of the angle of hair growth the more is the coverage.

  • Colour: More the contrast between colours of the scalp skin and the overlying hair the more difficult to achieve the scalp coverage by hair restoration.

  • Wet or Oily Hair: are more likely to show up baldness

  • Light: More the direct bright light more the