April 11 2008, 2:34 pm PT | Posted in: Hair Transplantation
This is a follow-up to last week’s How Many Grafts to Give Dick Vitale Hair Like Brad Pitt?
Doctor by saying you would need 40000 hairs to give mr Vitale the coverage mr Pitt has, do you mean that 40000 hair could produce the coverage but not the density? Cause otherwise the numbers don’t add up. A head like mr Pitt’s has at least 100.000 hairs right? Now, assuming that Vitale has kept about 10.000 hair at the back of his head : 40.000 + 10000 = 50000
What am i calculating wrong?
We at NHI have produced wonderful, full-looking heads of hair with a total of 50% of the original density. If Brad Pitt would allow me to pull out every other hair behind his hairline, I don’t believe that you would be able to tell that he lost 50% of his density. One doctor actually did this on a human volunteer and found (using good photography) that in this white male with black hair, observers and photographs could not tell the difference. The contrast of the black hair against white skin is what makes this most interesting.
This is an important observation, because if 50% is the amount of the original density a white male with black hair needs to appear full, then a white male with light brown hair may only need 20-30% of his original density, and a white male with blond hair may only need 10-20% of his original density to look full. The color contrast also extends to dark skinned people who have matching hair colors and they may behave just like the blond hair white skinned man I discussed above.
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you’ve wonderfully explained why half the hair ( or less ) is more than enough to produce the ilusion of coverage and density
Allow me to post one observation and one question.
In this post you do not mention the hair characteristics ( hair thickness and character ) as a factor but only the hair and scalp color .
And now the question . Ok , 40.000 could give mr vitalle , the coverage and density mr pitt has . But how about the volume ? In other worlds , if mr pitt had indeed let you pluck half of his hair , wouldn’t that make his hair look much less volumed ?
thank you for your time
I agree with the previous poster. There is a big difference between look and feel. If Mr. Pitt were to pluck half of his hairs out, there is absolutely no way he can style his hair the way he does now. He won’t be able to spike it, won’t be able to part it, etc…