Graft Counts ! Is your Surgeon exaggerating the truth?

[JoeTillman]

Oh I forgot to ask does splitting grafts contribute to transection of the graft ?

It can, but it depends on the experience of the techs but in better clinics that use microscopes it is a common practice. Understand however that not all clinics use microscopes or even have them. If you are having surgery with an FUE clinic that does or use to perform FUT then they have microscopes and most likely use them for further refinement of the grafts once extracted. If they are an FUE only clinic and never performed FUT or haven't for many years, they might not use them any longer. If they aren't using microscopes then you're asking for a less than ideal hairline result as you're going to have more multiple hair grafts in the frontal hairline than if the grafts were refined.

It is your responsibility as a patient to ask if the grafts are refined using microscopes if you're having FUE.