{"id":1185,"date":"2011-05-09T13:50:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T20:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2011-08-09T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T21:05:21","slug":"why-some-hair-transplant-results-look-better-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/why-some-hair-transplant-results-look-better-than-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Some Hair Transplant Results Look Better Than Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1186\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/why-some-hair-transplant-results-look-better-than-others\/blog\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1186\" style=\"margin: 20px;\" title=\"blog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/blog-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/blog-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/blog.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A patient once asked me why his surgery of 2850 grafts did not bear the same results after three years as some who have had the exact same number of grafts. I informed him to never compare other patients results simply based on the number of grafts alone.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I meet with a patient before hair transplant surgery, I intentionally educate them of what they personally should expect after their procedure. At times I do give big promises to certain patients with better quality donor hair (denser, wavier, and thicker), and some I encourage to get more than one surgery for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/after-hair-transplant-results.php?id=36\">maximum results<\/a>. The overall results will be determined by donor hair quality, number of grafts, and hair to skin color contrast.<\/p>\n<p>If two different patients were to be compared who have the same hair characteristics, but one is twice the thickness than the other, a microscope would be used to reveal the cross section of hair. This would reveal the one patients hair is four times thicker (A= \uf070r2) and the final result is expected to have a volume of 4 times thicker.<\/p>\n<p>Many factors can contribute to poorer results from a hair transplantation surgery. Some factors may be from the patient themselves, while others situation may be due to the technique of the surgery and how well the follicles maintain post-surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patient once asked me why his surgery of 2850 grafts did not bear the same results after three years as some who have had the exact same number of grafts. I informed him to never compare other patients results simply based on the number of grafts alone. Whenever I meet with a patient before&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,382,445,21],"tags":[516,517,518,519],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-after-hair-transplant","category-hair-loss-complications","category-hair-transplant-procedure","category-men-hair-restoration","tag-hair-diameter","tag-poor-result","tag-thick-hair","tag-thin-hair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ushairtransplant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}