I’m 5 weeks post op now and still have transplanted hair that haven’t fallen out yet. I tried using DermMatch to conceal it. But applicator pulled out like 15 transplanted hairs. Will they grow back or are they damaged since I forcibly pulled them out instead of letting them fall naturally? The hairs that remain […]
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You can suffer from infection or hair death if the grafts remained on the the floor for a period of time without being hydrated and kept wet. There no absolute cut off time limit but I am just giving a generality here. It probabaly also depends on how dirty the floor was. Mistakes can happen […]
Generally it should be safe to wash your hair, but I would not use a scrub brush on the scabs. I would soak the scabs and then rub them gently with your fingertips after soaking in shampoo for a few minutes and they’ve become softer. I do not know what or how your surgery was […]
Unless you actively pick at the grafts, the newly transplanted grafts are generally secure after the first 24-48 hours. If there are scabs on them, they can be pulled out by pulling on the scabs, so we always wash any scabbing away so that there is no graft anchoring to the scabs. Normal day to […]
Most people will see the newly transplanted hair fall out and go through a dormant phase before regrowing months later, but some will see those grafts just start growing without going dormant. I am confused by what you’re describing about pulling grafts out months after surgery. After 7 months you should see some hair growth […]
Once you allow the scabs to form after a hair transplant, they can take weeks to come off by themselves. This will not damage your grafts, just give you a cosmetic problem you would not have had had you washed them off as they formed.
Patients may generate scabs after surgery. It is best to wash them off before they get ‘rooted’. When they are not washed off immediately, they may last for days. I have even seen patients who do not wash well and have their scabs last for weeks. Pulling off scabs during washing and styling is one […]
An FUE (Follicular Unit Excision) is a surgical procedure and as such it should always be looked at it that way. Fortunately, when I initially described and published this technique in 2002, I called it a ‘minimally invasive hair transplant’ because it did not take on the risks of the then standard Strip Surgery (FUT) […]
The crusts that you had clearly must have pulled out your grafts during their critical period when they were being secured in their recipient sites. If the crusting remains, the grafts are not secure for up to 12 days after the surgery and any attempts to pick off the crusts have the risk of pulling out […]
No, you should not try to remove the scabs at one week or else you will risk pulling out the grafts. I wrote an article on this and it takes 12 days for the grafts to settle. The key is to wash it properly so that the crusts don’t form in the first place.
The follicular units History: We are the modern day inventors of the FUE procedure, doing these FUE procedures longer than anyone in the world, dating back to 1995. We published the first article on FUE in 2002 (https://baldingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/mp-2002-fue.pdf) and then the rest is history as doctors from all over the world started to do them. […]
This is part 2 of my series of posts about follicular unit extraction (FUE). I discussed the history of FUE yesterday in part 1. — When I made the decision to have another hair transplant procedure some 8 months ago, I asked Dr. Pak to do it with FUT (strip), not FUE, and the rationale […]
The method of harvesting is not an issue in women who keep reasonably long hair. The cost differential might make a difference if you go the transplant route (FUT/strip will cost less per graft than FUE). Each technique has various pros and cons that we’ve written about before. People who pull at their hair and […]
The graft pull study (PDF file) was done to determine when the removal of the graft, really meant that the entire growth center of the graft was removed. We found that in the first six days, although the physical graft could be pulled out, the graft growth center probably remained (reflected the sleeve of the […]
A surgical cap should never be worn to cover the grafts, for as you said, this could be a problem. You should ask your doctor about the loss of grafts. If you only lost one graft, then consider yourself lucky.
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