Assessing a New Hair Transplant Before the Hairs Go Dormant

Hi Doc

The way your hairline looks right after a procedure before the transplanted hairs fall out, is that a pretty good indication of what you’ll look like when the hairs grow back?

When restoring a hairline how do you stay ahead considering balding is progressive? it would seem a year or 2 later after your transplanted hair are fully restored you’re still 2 years thinner with the surrounding hairs.

Thanks

The day after the hair transplant is a good time to assess what you might look like with regard to distribution of the hairs and the position of the hairline. How the fully grown transplant looks is dependent on many factors, including your hair character, skin/hair contrast, and the surgery itself (proper direction placing of the grafts, minimizing graft damage, etc).

As for the second part of your email — Yes, genetic hair loss is progressive and that does mean that further recession might occur after a transplant. This is particularly true in men under 30 years old and in those men who do not take finasteride (Propecia) to stop the progression of the balding. If you stop the hair loss with medication, then in two years (in general), you should see the benefits of frontal hair growth from the transplant without loss behind it.