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What is a hair transplant?
It moves growing follicles. It does not create new ones.
A clinician takes small groups of hair follicles from a donor area—usually the back or sides of the scalp—and places them in a thinning area.
Healthy follicles are moved from one area to another.
Hair that was not transplanted may continue to thin.
Coverage depends on donor supply, hair features, goals, and the clinical plan.
See the graft-count nuance
A graft is a small unit of tissue that can contain one or more hairs. Graft count is part of planning, but it does not measure design quality, safe harvesting, or the chance of a natural result by itself.
Remember this
The central idea is redistribution: donor supply is limited and needs a long-term plan.
Sources for this lesson (3)
Cleveland Clinic
Hair Transplant: How It Works and Recovery(opens in a new tab)Procedure overview, candidate factors, risks, recovery, and result timing
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
Hair Transplantation and Restoration(opens in a new tab)Donor and recipient concepts, consultation, procedure, safety, and recovery
International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Hair Restoration(opens in a new tab)Plain-language procedure overview and donor-to-recipient explanation