The picture shows heavy donor site depletion suggesting that the 2,500 grafts you had were too many for your donor area density. This suggests that you had a lower original donor density prior to your original FUE and any more FUEs taken from your donor area will make you look balder in the back of […]
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Yes, it is not unusual to thicken up the transplant with a second hair transplant, especially people with fine hair. Mechanically, there are limits to how close one can place grafts in a first surgery but on a second surgery, the surgeon goes between the previous grafts and this will double the density. After the […]
The average Caucasian has 6,000-7,000 hair grafts, the average Asian or African has 80% of those numbers, so you can do it again with some to spare. It is not uncommon to repeat the surgery a second time for more density.
Hair transplants are not just available to “rich guys”, but as you are a teenager with an interesting view on things, perhaps you consider anyone with a better-than-minimum wage job to be “rich”. Remember that hair transplantation is a completely elective procedure and not for everyone. If you buy a hair system and do the […]
Everything takes time. There is no way to accelerate the healing process you are going through. If after the stitches come out you are still red, then you can apply some 0.5% hydrocortisone cream every 12 hours, but only apply it three or four times and then wait 5 days to see if it resolved. […]
What you are seeing is terrible post-operative care which has allowed thick crusts to form on your head and then crack. An FUE is treated just like a regular hair transplant with regard to the recipient area while the donor area has open wounds which require daily washing with soap and water. Within 3 days of […]
Can you imagine having to walk around like this. The doctor has no sense that there was a technique to wash off the crusts the day of and the day after the surgery. Within 3 days of surgery you should look perfectly normal and able to go out in public without detection. By the third […]
I am starting to worry about doing damage by picking off my scabs. Is it OK to do that? Absolutely, do not pick off the crusts from the recipient area as the grafts are attached to these crusts and when you pick or pull on them, the graft will come out especially in the first […]
I saw this photo on an internet site where the patient asked how his recipient area looked and why the cracks where there. Clearly the doctor never told the patient how to take care of the recipient area. This poor man will have to walk around for almost a month with this ‘cake’ on his […]
You should have washed off these crusts on the day after surgery, but now that they formed, you will have to wait a full 12 days before trying to wash these crusts off by leaving the shampoo on for 10 minutes at a time. Once these crusts are water logged and it is past 12 […]
I give the patient a surgical sponge that has no soap in it. The patient then wets his recipient area with softly running water. Any good shampoo can be used with the sponge. Put shampoo into a small bowl of water and then using the sponge, make a lot of suds so that it fills […]
We make a point to wash off all of the crusts and scabs the day and the day after the surgery. Now that you are past 12 days, it is safe to put a shampoo on your head, leave it on for 15 minutes and then gently rub the crusts off. Repeat this twice daily […]
These scabs (crusts) should have been prevented with good washing techniques the day and the day after surgery. Once they form, you run a risk of graft loss until 14 days at which time you can get them out by leaving a shampoo on the area for 10 minutes, getting it water logged, and then […]
The reason a man under 25 should not have a hair transplant is because the hair loss patterns just starts appearing by the age of 25-26. So, for example, if you recede 1/2 inch of your frontal hairline at 20, got it transplanted, then by 21 you lost another 1/2 inch behind the transplant and then […]
These are scabs (crusts) from the recipient site grafts. They should have been washed off within the first day and the following day after the surgery. Now, you must wait 12 days to remove them. You should leave shampoo on the area for 10 minutes then gently rub it with your fingertips. As the scabs […]