Transplant Look 1 Week Later (with Photos)

I am in the business world and I must go out to speaking engagements, as I make my living by lecturing. If I have a transplant, I need to be out in public in a week. I have read your newhair.com site and from that I know you need more information. My hair is black, my skin is light brown (I am Indian), my hair is straight and I am a class 3A balding pattern. Am I unreasonable to hope to get this process complete in a week and then go out into the public domain?

This patient had 2,648 grafts 8 days prior to taking these photos. He is much like you’ve described yourself: darker skin, black hair, Norwood Class 3A/4A pattern. Today’s modern technique keeps the wounds very, very small so that they heal faster. Some of the hairs already fell out so the full complement of hairs are not there and will not return until they start to grow (1-4 months). The issue with detectability has more to do with skin color and its contrast with hair color than anything else. Very white skin shows blemishes easily, so what you see here may or many not be the case in other skin colors like mine, which is olive in color and is almost as good as the man in this picture. When you actually look at him, his previous frontal balding now has a short beard in the area where he was bald and he reported that most of the people he met with socially, have not looked at his hair, suggesting that they did not notice anything worth focusing upon. Of course, you know what we are looking for, so the transplant may be evident to the viewer of this blog.

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