What is a reasonable long-term hair transplant goal for a man with an average-sized area of Male Pattern Baldness (or who is destined to develop an average-sized area)?
In the long term, the answer is of course the same, whether someone is already bald or is only destined to develop an average-sized area of Male Pattern Baldness (MPB). However, let’s begin with a definition of “average”. Figure 12 shows the “types” or degrees of MPB as defined by Drs. Hamilton and Norwood. While their schematic drawings don’t cover all the variations of MPB, they are by far the commonest way that doctors define the severity of MPB. For a large majority of men Type V or Type VI MPB is what will likely develop over time, and so we will use Type V to Type VI as the “average”. The answer to the question is that a man with Types V or VI MPB can expect to transplant from the hairline back to a zone where the head changes from a more or less horizontal orientation to a more or less vertical one at the start of the “crown area”, in two sessions of approximately 1500-2500 Follicular Units (FU) each, provided only that the scalp in the donor area has average laxity, average hai
