When Will I See Changes to Hair Character After Transplant?

I had a hair transplant earlier in february of this year for 5005 grafts. Covering the front and crown. Its been 6 1/2 months and I’m wondering if the seemingly looking baby hairs will eventually straighten out. What textural changes will I see and when?. Thank you…

Transplanted hairs grow out in waves — some probably at 3 months, some at 4 months, some at 5 months, and so on. Hair cycling is the cause of the delayed growth start, since your hairs are coming out of their cycle at different points in time. Each hair that was transplanted was in a different part of its growing cycle and after a transplant it starts growing again, picking up possibly where it was in its growing cycle before it was transplanted. Most people confuse hair shaft thickness with the new density as it appears. Could you be referring to the overall thickness of your hair (which would reflect the numbers of hairs), and not necessarily the thickness of each shaft?

I tell my patients to wait out a full 8 months and then you should see 80-90% of the growth to some reasonable styling length. If there is a shaft thickness issue with these new hairs, get them measured by your doctor and compared to the hair from the donor area and you will have answers to your question about ‘baby fine hair’. There should not be baby fine hair there by the 8th month.