The only way to prevent shock loss (the loss of your native hair) following a hair transplant is to take the drug finasteride prior to the transplant and then after it for a year or more. When this happens in women, there is no known way to prevent shock loss as the mechanism is different
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People who have hair transplants shed the transplanted hair and the grafts within the first few months. People with shock loss loose their native hair that remains not the transplanted hair. The native hair is often the hair that is miniaturizing and will eventually be lost
This patient received over 4000 FUE grafts and now has a depleted and permanently damaged donor area. He must wait this out and probably get Scalp Micropigmentation to manage it as I expect this this will be permanent.
Shock loss is very common in men under 30 who have had a hair transplant and are not on the drug Finasteride. Most of the time, Finasteride can help the stop the shock loss from occurring. How common is shock loss with hair transplant from tressless
This patient had shock loss, causing loss of the hairs in the donor area. I am assuming that the surgeon took out too many grafts too closely in that area, which impacted the circulation to the donor area. We have performed thousands of FUE sessions and have never seen this complication.
This could be either shock loss in the donor area or over-harvesting the grafts from the donor area. You will know in about 6 months. If it is shock loss, it should reverse.
Sometines it is difficult to tell the difference between over-harvesting and shock loss of the donor area. After the donor area recovers in about 6 months you will know.
I am 26 years old and had a hair transplant last week and my surgeon recommended that I take Propecia to prevent shock loss. I am afraid to do this because I heard that I won’t get erections on this drug. Is this true? The risks of ED with finasteride is 3-4% while the risks […]
The photo on the left is before the surgery and the photo on the right is after the surgery. The loss of hair reflects shock loss and it could have been prevented with the drug finasteride in 95% of young men who take this drug. This 25 year old male, lost most of his native […]
Is it a case that the hair is going to shed anyway post surgery and should I wait until I experience hair loss before using Mixoxidil? It is not automatically expected that you will have hair loss after forehead reduction surgery. It is a complication of this surgery and something that you should speak with your […]
These scars may occur as a complication of an FUT strip surgery. Sometimes they just happen and sometimes it occurs when the wound is closed under tension. Wait a period of six months and then, if it does not go away, you might have to consider doing something about it like Scalp MicroPigmentation which works very […]
This is an example of a young man who had a hair transplant in the first one inch of the frontal area and in the crown of his head. His hairline was perfectly restored and he loved it. During the year following the hair transplant, the hair that he had behind the hairline, which was strong before […]
Shock loss is an acceleration of hair loss after the stress of a hair transplant. It is more common in younger men in their 20 and less common in men as they get older, like their 40s and 50s. The best prevention of it is the drug finasteride which seems to protect the patient against […]
Shock loss risks go down as you get older. Men in the later 30s have less risk and men in their 40s and 50s even less risk. Finasteride substantially reduces the risk
My answer is always to think worst case. Not everyone that has a hair transplant gets shock hair loss, but the risks are there and the drug finasteride (Propecia) is a great drug that usually prevents this complication. These are my general rules that I tell patients, but reading this list is not a substitute […]
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