Any Way to Tell How Many Transplant Hairs Actually Will Yield Growing Hair?

IS there a correlation between how well transplanted hairs “took” at first, and the eventual yield?

The reason I ask is, I’m about 4+ months out from a 1,200 FUE session and I have seen little/no evidence of growth yet. But, I remember in the first couple weeks after my procedure, I felt and saw a whole lot of hairs as nubs, and they grew a little before falling out. If the hairs held at first, and even grew, can that be an assurance (or at least almost an assurance) that everything was done properly and they’re going to come back and grow for real? or is it still possible to end up with poor yield even if the hair looked real good at first?

At 4 months, I would not have expected much hair to be there. Between the 4-5 month, you should see hair growth and by the 7-8th month you should be in the combable hair stage. By the 12th month, expect over 95% of the grafts to have grown.

It is rare to have no graft growth if your surgery was performed by a doctor with an experienced team. A complete failure of the transplant in the hands of such a team is very rare. Those hairs that appear to grow in the first 2-3 weeks after the surgery (those short hairs that feel like a beard) are really just being shed and contrary to what you see, they are not growing. These hairs sometimes remain in the head and are not shed in the first month, but most times they do not grow either. Any residual hairs that look beard-like will almost all shed by the time the actual transplanted hair grows.