hybrid hair transplants

marcster

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Hi all, I'm new to the board here. I will post a quick introduction shortly but I just wanted to ask your take on the topic (no pun intended) of combining hair transplants with smp - scalp micropigmentation.

I mean...what can I really say. I guess I just wanted to state my position and see your take on it.

I think scalp micropigmentation has the potential to effectively double, if not even more than double, the amount of hair men, particularly men with black and brown hair, have for transplantation and to achieve a look of looking good and emulating a full head of hair.

I'm not a super expert on this, but it is my understanding that 50% of natural hair density is what is needed to achieve the look of a full head of hair. Once a man drops below 50% density, then he starts to get the see-through effect and you start seeing scalp and you start to look bald/balding. So 50% is roughly the magic number for hair density necessary to achieve a good, decent, full head of hair look.

Within reason of course. Hair characteristics (wavy, curly vs straight) and so forth matter. But on I mean on average. You hit 50%, you are good to go.

Well...if you, as a matter of standard practice, start combining SMP with hair transplants...could you not, on a pretty regular basis, get the number of grafts the average man has to go A LOT further? Could you not effectively double the number of grafts a man has, at least to the naked eye?

I think this is very important. I believe for most men, achieving the look of a full head of hair is not about hair counts or hairs per square inch...it is about achieving the look of having a full head of hair.

So, assuming the average man has about 10,000 hair grafts in him, would not combining those 10,000 grafts with SMP to reduce the skin to hair contrast in effect give the average man the ability to make those 10,000 grafts LOOK like 20,000 grafts. Or even 25,000 grafts?

From the results I have seen around the web and the visual effectiveness of concealers like dermmatch, it stands to reason that SMP can really give hair transplants quite the multiplier effect, giving most men the ability to effectively regain a full head of hair!

This seems like a big deal, and it seems to me that with modern hair transplants, this hybrid approach should be discussed really right up-front.

It just seems that this really should be much more standard fare. Men could get fewer surgeries and achieve the look they wanted, maybe with just one or two surgeries instead of three or four. There would be less cost. And men who do not want to get FUT may actually be able to get FUE, avoid a scar, and actually achieve the look they wish with half the number of grafts.

I just think this hybrid approach to hair transplants should be much more front and center on the scene, even the way that MOST hair transplants should be done in the modern day.

Sure, when you get older you'll have to dye your hair and all that and you'll be the old dude with the dark hair and yadda yadda...

But assuming you have black or brown hair and are ok with the dyeing thing...

Isn't this just the way most transplants should be?
 

dreamermerlin

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Yes, that is a good idea. I thought of it before.
YEs, you can use hair transplant for some coverage, and then get SMP to make your hair appear fuller.
Of course hair transplant surgeons don't like this , they want you to get more transplant, to pay them. :)
 
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