Some of My Transplanted Hairs Never Fell Out After the Surgery

Hi –

Is it normal for some, but not all of the transplanted hair to remain in the transplanted area? I thought that it was an either/or kind of thing — either you were apart of the minority of s that would retain all of the transplanted hair or all of the transplanted follicles would eventually shed. I am going on 5.5 weeks now, and probably 85% of the transplanted hairs have shed, but there remains some hairs here and there that have “taken root” so to speak and begun growing. Should I expect these to fall out eventually? I have never heard of doctors talk about some but not all the transplanted hairs falling out.

Thanks!

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 have no way to know if you’re one of the rare patients that doesn’t go through the dormant phase following a hair transplant (it doesn’t have to be all-or-nothing in regards to immediate growth), and only time will tell if your hair will hold. In any case, keep your fingers crossed that the 15% of remaining transplanted hair continues to grow.