No. It moves hair from the back and sides, where it is genetically resistant to thinning, into the area that is thinning. The hair around the grafts carries on doing exactly what it was going to do, which is why medication matters as much as surgery and why an untreated transplant can end up as an island with a gap behind it. Start Here explains the order.

A hairline and frontal third is commonly 2,000 to 2,500 grafts, and a crown can absorb as much again, against a lifetime donor supply of roughly 6,000 to 8,000. That arithmetic, rather than the technique, is what decides what is possible on your head. Donor supply goes through it properly.

Neither, in the abstract. FUE takes follicles one at a time and leaves scattered pinpoint dots; FUT takes a strip and leaves one line, yields more in a single session and sometimes survives better. The deciding question is how short you will ever wear the back of your head. Techniques compares them.

Because it is supposed to. At around three to six weeks the transplanted hairs shed while the follicles stay put, so you look worse at month two than you did before surgery, and new growth starts from about month three. It is called shock loss and it is the point in the process people find hardest. Shock loss explains it.

If you take it, yes: stopping loses whatever it held within six to twelve months. That sounds like a catch and it is really the whole point, because holding the hair you still have is what keeps a transplant looking right in ten years. Finasteride covers the evidence and the side effect question in numbers rather than reassurance.

Cheaper, often by half or more, and not automatically worse. The variable that matters is not the country but who physically performs the operation, how many patients the clinic runs in a day, and what happens if something goes wrong once you are home. Those questions apply just as much to a clinic near you. Going abroad sets out what to ask.