How many hair follicles are needed to grow a widow's peak? Where should the hair follicles be taken to grow a widow's peak?

For many people, a widow's peak is a symbol of beauty, so many girls want one. If you are born without one, you can only rely on transplantation. Let's find out how many hair follicles are generally needed to transplant a widow's peak.

How many hair follicles are needed to grow a widow's peak?

Widow's peak transplantation is different from large-area hair transplantation. Since the area for widow's peak transplantation is relatively small, not so many hair follicles are needed, about 500.

The principle of widow's peak implantation is similar to that of hair transplantation, which is the transplantation of autologous hair follicles. The specific number of hair follicles required is determined by your own situation, so you need to go to the hospital for a test to determine it first.

Where to get hair follicles for widow's peak transplantation

The hair follicles used to transplant a widow's peak are taken from the back of the head.

Many people may know about beard transplantation and eyebrow transplantation, but they don’t know much about widow’s peak transplantation. Widow’s peak transplantation is a relatively special plastic surgery. The doctor extracts healthy hair follicle tissue from the back of the patient’s head, cultivates and processes it, and then transplants it to the designed widow’s peak surgery site, so that a new widow’s peak will grow at the site of the widow’s peak surgery.

The pros and cons of growing a widow's peak

Advantages: The surgical wound is small, the transplanted hair follicles generally will not be rejected, the trauma to the surgical site is small, it is highly safe, and the postoperative effect can be maintained for a long time.

Disadvantages: The operation causes more trauma to the affected area. Not only do the hair follicles need to be extracted from the back of the head, but they also need to be transplanted to the surgical site. In addition, the operation takes a long time to take effect.

The process of implanting a widow's peak

1. Hair follicle detection

Generally speaking, everyone has hair follicle resources. Because we harvest hair follicles from the back of the head during surgery, the hair follicles at the back of everyone's head are healthy and not prone to necrosis, and they will not fall off.

2. Design a widow's peak hairstyle

After conducting a hair follicle test, the hair transplant doctor will design the most suitable widow's peak transplant plan based on the patient's face shape, temperament, and personal requirements to achieve the ideal beautiful effect.

3. Extraction and transplantation of hair follicles

The hair transplant doctor uses special instruments to extract the hair follicles from the back of the head, processes them in a certain way, and then transplants them to the designed widow's peak area.