Norwood Stage 6
Norwood Stage 6 is what Stage 5 becomes once that connecting bridge disappears entirely — frontal and crown hair loss have merged into one continuous bald area, usually leaving a defined horseshoe of hair around the sides and back. This is a large, connected area to cover, and donor supply realistically becomes the central planning question rather than a secondary one.
Why the range is 3,800-5,200 grafts
3,800-5,200 grafts reflects covering that full merged area, but the honest caveat at this stage is that achieving the same density a Stage 2 or 3 patient could reach simply isn't possible for everyone — the area needing coverage has grown faster than the donor area that supplies it. Surgeons typically plan for "reasonable" rather than maximum density: even coverage across the whole area, prioritizing the frontal third (the zone that most affects how a hairstyle looks and reads to others) over uniform density everywhere.
What to expect
Two sessions are common and often advisable — partly to manage donor-area healing between sittings, partly because seeing how the first session's density looks after it grows in (10-12 months) meaningfully improves planning for where a second session's grafts do the most visual good.
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