Not on its own, and it is not designed to. A transplant moves hair from the back and sides, where it is genetically resistant to thinning, to where it has been lost, and that moved hair stays. Medication is what protects the hair around it, so the two together give the best and longest-lasting result. 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 and get ready to grow, and new growth starts from about month three. It is called shock loss, it is a normal part of the process, and knowing it is coming makes it much easier to sit out. Shock loss explains it.

If you take it, yes: it keeps working for as long as you take it, and stopping loses what it held within six to twelve months. That is what makes it so useful alongside a transplant, because protecting the hair you still have keeps the result looking right for 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 how aftercare works once you are home. Those questions apply just as much to a clinic near you. Going abroad sets out what to ask.