Can a Bald Person Receive a Hair Transplant?

If you’ve already experienced significant hair loss and balding, you might be wondering whether you’re a good candidate for a hair transplant. The good news is that as long as you still have a decent supply of donor hair (included in the horseshoe-shaped ring of hair that usually remains after balding), you can benefit from a hair transplant.

That being said, hair transplantation surgery can’t restore all of your hair if you don’t have enough donor hair to transplant. But it can help restore your hairline and add density to your remaining hair. These benefits alone can significantly improve your hair’s appearance.

How a Hair Transplant Works

During a hair transplant, we take hair from the sides and back of your head where it’s growing vigorously. Your donor hair retains its resistance to thinning even after being transplanted, which means it’ll continue to grow normally in its new location for many years.

We offer two techniques to transplant donor hair: follicular unit excision (FUE) and follicular unit transplantation (FUT). Both techniques result in a completely natural-looking hairline, and it is virtually undetectable to the naked eye that you have had a hair transplant procedure. To learn more about your hair restoration options, download Bosley’s FREE guidebook, The Complete Book on Hair Restoration, to see how great your hair can look. Or schedule a free consultation with a Bosley specialist today.

Dr. David Deutsch Talks about Hair Transplants for Bald Individuals

“A fair number of patients come in who are bald and want to know whether they’re candidates for hair transplantation. And yes, they are candidates, depending on whether they have a good donor supply. The donor supply is the hair that remains: that fringe of hair that remains on the back of the head. As long as there’s a good donor supply back there, you’re a candidate.

Now, we can’t restore all of the hair if there’s a tremendous amount of hair that’s been lost — it’s a supply-and-demand issue. But we can at least restore a hairline and add that density behind it, which makes a tremendous change in appearance. And that’s what hair transplantation is all about: making a change in appearance.” — Dr. David Deutsch