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Glossary term

Recipient area

The balding or thinning area where grafts are implanted. Hairline, frontal forelock, and crown are the most-treated recipient areas.

Which Procedures Involve Recipient area?

Recipient area appears in the following procedure guides on ProcedureFinder:

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Recipient area? +

The balding or thinning area where grafts are implanted. Hairline, frontal forelock, and crown are the most-treated recipient areas. On ProcedureFinder, Recipient area appears in the FUE Hair Transplant cost guide. FUE has been performed since the early 2000s with extensive published outcome data.

How much does fue hair transplant cost? +

FUE Hair Transplant costs $5,000 to $22,000 per session (typically 1,500-3,500 grafts) nationally, with a median of $11,000 in ProcedureFinder's cash-pay benchmarks. Hair restoration by extracting individual follicles from the donor area and transplanting them to balding or thinning regions.

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