My Hair Transplant Made My Skin Cobblestoned!

Ive had a transplant 6 mnths ago.The hair that has been transplanted on the front top of my head has made the skin look bumpy cobble stoned appearance. I want to shave my hair short to blade 0 and not have the bumpy look. What procedures can be carried out to solve my problem. I do not wish to have another transplant so im looking on ways to make my linear scar fade away to. Is laser treatment good for the scar.

Of course, I will start by saying I want to see what your hair looks like and if you can visit California (we have two offices here) it would be best to let us examine you directly. The second option (and probably most convenient if you’re not local) is to send me good photographs of what you are referring to with good lighting. Be sure to include photos of the scar where the hair was taken from.

Cobble-stoning is usually the result of the larger grafts which have a reasonably sized skin disk with it. The skin from the graft does not align with the scalp skin around it so that it appears bumpy. If that is what you have, your doctor used an obsolete technique and these just can not be fixed by shaving down the scalp skin with dermabrasion, which only makes the visibility worse with depigmentation of the scalp skin. The only solution is to put more hair around these bumps to hide it in the ‘forest’ of normal hair (more hair transplants, but this time by a well skilled doctor using modern techniques). Laser treatments do not work either and the linear scars from the donor area can be difficult to fix, but again, I would need to see it to understand the problem.