I do not know why your scabs would be there at a month after surgery. Just washing your hair with soap and water should’ve taken them off. I would like to know if the grafts were the large plugs, which used to produce scabs lasting 2-3 months with poor hygiene. We did a graft anchoring […]
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I would usually say no, but I have seen some strange results and methods of hair transplants over the years. Not all FUE (follicular unit extraction) is the same and not all hair transplants are the same. If you are able to pull out a graft one month after surgery, then it was never going […]
I certainly am not in a position to tell you what is going on, but the doctor who did your surgery should be the first place to go to find this out. I wish I could offer more, but I didn’t perform your surgery and I don’t know what was done in the operating room […]
If it continues to grow, you will be like 5% of people who never lose the hair after a transplant. You won’t know for another few weeks and it is not unusual that the hair appears to be growing as it is being pushed out of the skin. The hair length below the skin varies […]
There have been concerns expressed that people that have had a hair transplant look like a bloody mess right after the surgery. When I recently posted a photo of a typical post-op case to another website, some forum members there expressed surprise and disbelief that a patient could not have blood on their scalp as […]
The hair transplants are permanent. At the 1 year mark, the results will be fully visible. I’m not sure the benefits of seeing 2-3 years later, as the transplants will be the same as after 1 year. I have seen patients transplanted in the 1960s and 70’s with the terrible old plugs, and other than […]
Here’s a recent patient of Dr. Pak‘s that has agreed to show his full face (and results) to the world. He’s very excited about the future of his hair, and although these photos are only 10 days out of surgery, you can see that he’s on the right track. There’s no redness, no scabbing, no […]
Since you have staples, I’ll make a wild assumption that you had the strip method surgery, in which case the wound should not be soaked for easily 3-4 weeks after a surgery. If you had a surgery using the follicular unit extraction (FUE) technique, then you could probably go surfing. The wounds are not strong […]
The use of limited amounts of hydrocortisone cream may help, but long term use is not healthy. I am hesitant to make specific recommendations to you as I have not seen you and therefore cannot make a judgment for you. My general approach is to point a direction on what to do, but hopefully you […]
Your have been very sick and have had a surgery — either of these can produce hair loss induced by this medical history. You doctor thinks that it is a telogen effluvium and if he is correct in that diagnosis, it will reverse in less than a year. But the hair loss from your photos […]
Women with genetic hair loss will often find progression into the back and sides (called donor area in men) as they age. What you are probably describing is that you are losing this hair and the transplanted hair (which was moved from that area) has some of that hair in there… so what you are […]
It takes about 6 months for any scar to heal relatively fully, thus I recommend waiting out that 6 month time frame.
This Norwood Class 3A patient came in for a check-up 10 days after his hair transplant procedure of 2,000 grafts. The scabs are gone and the recipient area is very clean with no visible redness. I wanted to show this patient because I’m constantly asked, “What will I look like after surgery?” — and with […]
Let me get this straight — you trusted your doctor for his expertise and judgments to have him perform a hair transplant surgery, but now you don’t trust these very same things because you read things on the Internet about post-operative care and scabs? I highly doubt your doctor ruined your grafts. We did do […]
For recovery from a follicular unit extraction (FUE) procedure, everything can be done. For recovery from a strip harvesting procedure, always test your trapezius muscle for contraction. The more the tightness created at the neck, the more of a problem that could be created from such activities as sit-ups and push ups. Squats are probably […]
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