Long hair transplantation implants grafts with the hair still attached, so nothing is shaved and the result is visible immediately. Hairline is the only clinic in Georgia that performs it with FUE as well as with Strip. It is the most discreet procedure we offer – you can return to work the next day with the transplanted area already looking styled. Sessions run to about 2,500 grafts, smaller than shaved FUE, because the technique is slower.
Most transplants ask you to disappear for a fortnight and then wait six months to see anything. LHT removes both problems: the donor area stays hidden under your own hair, and the recipient area looks plausible from the first evening. The trade is session size.
Long hair transplantation can be done by Strip (FUT), which other clinics also offer, or by FUE. Hairline performs both and is the only clinic in Georgia doing LHT with FUE, so the method follows your donor area rather than the clinic’s limits.
Donor and recipient areas both keep their existing hair. There is no stage at which your head announces that something has been done to it.
Grafts arrive with 10–15 cm of hair attached, so the new hairline can be combed and styled straight away – an accurate preview of month twelve.
Because surrounding hair is left long, it falls over the recipient area during the first days, when a shaved transplant would be at its most obvious.
Handling grafts with the shafts attached is slower and needs a steadier hand – traction on a long shaft can damage the follicle it belongs to. That caps a comfortable session at roughly 2,500 grafts, while shaved FUE can reach 6,000 when clinically required and supported by the donor area. Long Hair transplantation also costs more per graft.
For extensive loss needing maximum coverage in one sitting, standard FUE or Strip is the better instrument. For discretion, nothing else comes close.
Compare all methods →A long hair transplant – LHT – extracts and implants follicular units without trimming the hair attached to them. Because each graft arrives with 10–15 cm of hair still on it, the transplanted area looks styled the moment surgery ends, instead of taking months to show anything.
Both are possible. Strip (FUT) is the method other clinics in Georgia also use; Hairline is the only clinic in Georgia that also performs LHT with FUE. The surgeon recommends one after assessing your donor area.
The hair itself sheds between weeks two and four, exactly as in any transplant. What LHT gives you is an accurate preview of the final result for those first weeks, and the ability to comb existing hair over the recipient area while it heals. The follicles then regrow on the normal timeline.
Extracting and placing grafts with the hair attached is slower and more delicate – the shafts have to be handled without traction on the follicle. That limits a comfortable single session to around 2,500 grafts, while shaved FUE can reach 6,000 when clinically required and supported by the donor area.
People who cannot be seen to have had a procedure. It is the most discreet option available: nothing is shaved, the donor area is hidden under existing hair, and the recipient area looks plausible from day one. It suits public-facing work and anyone who would rather not explain a shaved head.
Per graft, yes – it takes considerably longer and demands more from the surgical team. Because sessions are smaller, the total for a given case can land close to a standard FUE procedure. The assessment gives you both figures so you can choose.