Here’s a story about a patient that has had four total hair transplant procedures — procedure #1 and #2 in 1995-1996 with us totaling 3286 hair grafts, procedure #3 with another doctor a couple of years ago of 1000 grafts, and finally procedure #4 (to fix procedure #3). This gentleman continued to lose hair after […]
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Most people will see the newly transplanted hair fall out and go through a dormant phase before regrowing months later, but some will see those grafts just start growing without going dormant. I am confused by what you’re describing about pulling grafts out months after surgery. After 7 months you should see some hair growth […]
Everyone experiences hair in the scabs when they come off. The key to good management is to get the scabs off immediately after the surgery. Now you should wait until the scabs come off with gentle shampooing of your hair. The hair you see in the scabs should not be the grafts, unless the grafts […]
For those that aren’t familiar, after a hair transplant surgery it’s common for the grafts to take root and the hairs to then fall out, with growth taking a few months to occur. A minority of patients (less than 5% is my unscientific guess) continue to grow the transplanted hair immediately after surgery. I really […]
I’m confused. You called your doctor who performed your surgery to ask about scabs, but you’re asking me if the grafts were pulled out? The problem is that you should not have waited until 3 weeks after surgery to do a proper washing of your recipient sites! Some of the hairs should be falling out […]
That is great news! Good for you. Hair growth occurs immediately in about 5% of patients. In some patients, some of it grows fast while other grafts grow slower over the 4-5 month time frame. I know when my patients grow immediately, they (and I) get excited. I only wish I knew how to make […]
There have been various reviews by different doctors on the use of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and few of those that used it are convinced that they have seen benefit. This technology has been used for bone grafts, especially by dentists. It drives up the costs of the procedure and proof of safety and effectiveness with […]
There are some inconsistencies in what you’ve told me. 4300 grafts in one surgery indicates that the donor area is very rich with hair and the densities are high. That is not consistent with problems in the donor area, which can be seen in diffuse unpatterned alopecia (DUPA), for example. People with DUPA never can […]
Because of the protective effect against shock hair loss, you should’ve been taking Propecia (finasteride 1mg) prior to the hair transplant surgery — so the question now is whether you started it early enough (best a few weeks before the procedure). Accelerated hair loss associated with a hair transplant is most probably caused by shock […]
This is a tragic story, one that is hopefully not common today. To be blunt, you got taken advantage of. To do 2700 grafts on a 23 year old with little or no balding and only a receding hairline is not only malpractice, but (in my opinion) it is criminal. You got scammed and fleeced. […]
If you are a woman and stress is the cause of the hair loss, it may reverse after the hair has gone through a telogen cycle (6-8 months). The surgery you had certainly adds stress. If you are a man, you should not be experiencing hair loss around the back and sides unless you have […]
The little scabbing is normal and it can take some weeks to go away (usually 1 to 2 weeks) if the washing has not been properly done. You should see the doctor who did your hair transplants and address these concerns to him/her. You should always have a strong patient to doctor relationship so that […]
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 […]
You are on schedule for your hairs to be doing what they are doing. It is not unusual to lose grafted hair as the old transplanted hairs shed. Sometimes the stubble of the transplanted hairs stay around for a few months, then they sooner or later fall out to their “death” (not really an appropriate […]
It is highly unusual for transplanted hair (taken from the correct donor area) to fall out. In the few instances I have seen it, every time I have observiced ‘permanent hair’ falling out for some reason, the hair returned. This was never in response to another surgery (e.g spinal surgery), but rather usually a response […]