Developed Scabs 13 Days After My Hair Transplant

After 13 days post transplant, I developed lots of scabs on my head. I used a brush to help remove these scabs as it is said the scabs can damage the regrowth process. But using the brush removed much of the transplanted hair in one go along with the scabs. Was using a brush a mistake? Or would the hair roots not have been affected by the brush as it was on the 13th day?

Great work on the site, a real help.

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I do thank you for reading the site and I am more than happy to give you general information, but shouldn’t you be asking your post-surgical questions to the doctor who performed your surgery? Answering such specific and personal post-operative questions (simple as they may be) could be potentially misleading just by the fact that I do not know what was done in your particular case. I mean, developing scabs on 13th day (with no scabs prior) is very strange if I am reading your question literally!

Small scabbing (1 to 2mm size) on the transplanted recipient sides after a normal follicular unit hair transplant surgery is common, but very minimal. With daily hair washing it should resolve in a week or two. I am not sure how you brush your scabs away, but if the hair grafts are not locked in by that time, you run some risk of pulling them out with the scabs. I would ask your doctor and have it checked out to make sure it is healing properly. See our published article on the subject — Graft Anchoring in Hair Transplantation (PDF file).