Timing of Growth After Multiple Hair Transplants

Bad timing? Bad Physiology?
Hi Doc,

I am almost 10 months into my second Hair Transplant. It is taking a long time to see any results – I have hardly any new hairs yet. I’m not going to stress out though, not unless I still have no grafts at 12 months.

My question is whether or not you have come across any cases where a patient has had more then one transplant, where the first transplant took a long time to show results, and where the second transplant that was quicker to produce results. If so what could cause that, could hair cycle at time of transplant play a role?

I sometimes wonder if there is something about me that means HT isn’t a good option.

Generally, the delay time between the actual hair transplant and the growth is 4-7 months. I always tell the patient to wait until 8 months or so when fully 80-90% of the hair has grown, mostly to a length of at least 2 inches by the eight month. If you have had no growth in 10 months, I would start to worry, but waiting out another 2 months is reasonable.

I don’t know that any studies have been done on this, but just based on observation over the years, there is little difference between growth time of the first and the second transplant in most patients.