In the News – Going Gray is Common After a Hair Transplant?

Snippet from the article:

The clinic who treated Wayne Rooney when he had his hair transplant have admitted that developing grey hair can be a common short-term side-effect of the procedure. The Manchester United and England star reportedly spent £30,000 to get a full head of hair earlier this year in a bid to cure his baldness.

However, while it appears to have reversed his receding hairline, the footballer’s new thatch appeared to be slightly discoloured when he took to the field for Manchester United this weekend.

Read the rest — Wayne Rooney’s doctors say going grey is common side-effect of his £30,000 hair transplant

Graying often starts on the sides and sometimes the back of the head, so I would not be surprised to see it turn up in the transplanted area before the surrounding hair, because the source hair could often gray sooner. Since his sideburns and the back of the head are also gray, I suspect that the transplant had little to do with the color change.

This man is only 25 years old, so there’s probably some early genetic graying since it’s showing up in the non-transplanted region. Maybe he was dyeing it before the transplant and stopped following his surgery. I really don’t know.

Regarding graying be a common side effect — I have not seen my patients experience this temporary graying after a hair transplant that the doctor in the article talks about. Transplanted hair will grow and gray just like the rest of your hair.