FUE Hair Transplant in Rawalpindi

Not everyone asking for a transplant should have one, and a clinic that books everyone who walks in is a clinic to be wary of. The assessment is genuinely a filter.

Graft numbers are the currency of this industry and they are routinely inflated. Patients are quoted four thousand grafts, charged for four thousand grafts, and receive considerably fewer, because nobody in the room is counting and the patient has no way to verify it.

A realistic transplant in a single session is commonly in the region of two to three and a half thousand grafts depending on donor supply, and a session substantially beyond that either runs across two days or is not what it claims. Ask any clinic how grafts are counted, whether you can see the count, and who is placing them.

Ask that last question especially. In many high-volume clinics the surgeon marks the hairline and leaves, and the extraction and placement — the parts that determine whether your result looks natural — are performed entirely by technicians.

The donor area is trimmed and local anaesthetic is given. Follicular units are then extracted individually with a fine punch, sorted and kept in solution while recipient sites are created at the angle and density planned for each zone. The grafts are then placed one at a time.

It is a long day — typically six to eight hours with breaks — and you are awake throughout. Most patients watch something, eat lunch and find the boredom harder than the discomfort. You go home the same day with the donor area dressed and written aftercare.

Almost every patient panics at week three, so here is what actually happens.

A transplant moves resistant hair into a thinning area. Your remaining native hair in that area is not resistant and continues to be lost. Over three to five years, the transplanted hair persists while the native hair around it disappears, and the result deteriorates even though every graft survived.

This is the mechanism behind almost every unhappy transplant patient we meet, and it is entirely preventable. Medical therapy to slow ongoing loss — discussed and prescribed at assessment — is part of the plan, not an upsell. A clinic that sells you a transplant without discussing what protects your native hair is selling you a second transplant.

Female pattern hair loss behaves differently: diffuse thinning across the top rather than a receding hairline, and frequently a donor area that is itself affected, which limits what can be harvested.

Some women are excellent candidates, particularly for hairline lowering, temple reconstruction, or traction alopecia from years of tight styles. Many are better served by treating the underlying cause. Female hair loss also more often has a medical driver — thyroid disease, iron deficiency, PCOS, post-partum shedding — so investigation comes before any discussion of surgery.

This is the highest-value procedure most patients will ever buy on the basis of a Facebook advert, so the questions are worth listing.