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Don’t worry; it’s perfectly normal for hair growth to lag behind on one side or the other after surgical hair restoration. At only 6.5 months post-op, you’ve got a lot more growth and maturation to come.
Have you been medically stabilizing your hair loss with Propecia (finasteride) and Rogaine (minoxidil)? This is the best way to prolong the effects of your hair transplant surgery by slowing the progression of Androgenic Alopecia.
While hearing loss is not a known, documented side effect of minoxidil, tinnitus or ringing in the ears has been reported by a very few patients. You can read more about that here: Will a Hair Transplant affect My Chronic Tinnitus?
It’s quite common for transplanted hair to grow in in a kinky or frizzy fashion for some months after hair transplant surgery. Normally, this change in hair quality will subside in time and the hair will become more
The main concern in applying hair dye to the donor area after a hair transplant is irritation. With follicular unit extraction (FUE), it is reasonable to expect that the extraction sites should be well healed at 10 days post-op.
Mederma is perfectly safe for use on your donor area and will not negatively affect surrounding hairs. Many experts also recommend vitamin E oil.
If your goal is to restore hair to the localized region in your temple areas and not to lower your entire hairline then I believe that hair transplant surgery is your best option. It is a far less invasive procedure than a hairline lowering procedure.
The follicular unit grafts are anchored in place by 10 to 14 days after hair transplant surgery. As long as your scabs are gone, there should be no danger of damaging them with a hair clipper at 3 months post-op. That said, it’s important to be very gentle. In my personal experience, I buzzed my own hair down two weeks after my surgical hair restoration procedure with a #2. Take care not to scratch the recipient area and you should be fine.
I haven’t heard any reports of alcohol and chewing tobacco hindering transplanted hair growth from hair restoration surgery. However, during the healing period in particular, it’s probably a good idea to keep the use of the substances minimal, especially if you’re taking...
In general, excessive heat is not healthy for your hair, transplanted or otherwise. Straightening hair every day with something like a flattening iron could make it brittle, and possibly more prone to breakage; however, even this should not hurt the actual follicles or cause permanent hair loss. Misuse of chemical straighteners is another story entirely...
While there is no timeframe set in stone, it's important that you protect your new transplanted hair for the first 10 days and be careful not to put strain on the donor area for the first 3 months. Thus, it's advisable to wait at least a couple of weeks to a month after hair transplant surgery to resume certain sports. Contact sports can...
While most hair transplant patients see their final results one year after surgery, you may just be a slow grower. The fact that you are seeing hair (even though it’s thinner in appearance) is a good sign. Hopefully these thin, fine hairs you are seeing are indeed transplanted hairs growing in and not the further miniaturization of natural hair due to male pattern baldness. I think your doctor's request to...
Assuming your hair loss is genetic, the most common type of baldness, a miniature bald spot in the crown isn’t enough to consider hair transplant surgery. Male pattern baldness is progressive and transplanting hair in the crown may leave you with an unnatural looking halo of baldness around a tuft of transplanted hair...
Transplanted hair typically starts growing the day they're implanted into the scalp. However, after 2 to 4 weeks, the majority of the growing transplanted hairs separate from the hair follicle and fall out (shed) while the follicles go dormant for several months. This phenomenon isn't fully understood however, it's believed to be related to the trauma of...
Hair transplant postoperative scalp discoloration (typically red or pink in color) can last a couple of weeks to a couple of months depending on the patient. Fair skinned individuals (especially those who are easily flushed) may experience elongated scalp discoloration, especially when dense packing is administered. Some hair restoration physicians will prescribe...
What happens is this: transplanted hair will separate from the follicle 2 to 4 weeks after the hair transplant procedure leaving a healthy follicle behind to rest. In 3 to 5 months, the follicles will begin to wake up and start producing new and healthy hair. Hair will begin to grow thin and colorless but will thicken, darken, and mature over the period of a year plus. A hair transplant is typically seen as mature after about a year however, some softening and...
Every hair restoration physician has their own postoperative instructions and timelines for when it's acceptable to resume certain activities. However, as a general rule, you should avoid physical exercise for the first 10 days. Upon resuming regular work outs, start easy and gradually work your way back to normal...
Everyone's transplanted hair grows at different rates. Several patients have experienced significant growth after 9 months and are typically referred to as "slow growers". Hopefully, this is the case with you which is indeed quite possible. Be sure to keep the lines of communication open with your hair restoration doctor and express...
You are safe to use topical concealers again like Courve, Toppik, and Dermmatch after the first ten days. This will give the recipient area a chance to heal and the newly transplanted hair follicles to permanently attach themselves below the scalp. Hair restoration physicians have varying philosophies on...
There is a possible risk of telogen effluvium (shock loss) that can occur to natural hair as a result of trauma to the scalp during surgery. This can happen any time hair is transplanted in between or around existing native hair. Unless the "shocked" hairs were already significantly miniaturized and on...
In addition to placement, hair density, and coverage, lighting can influence how a hair transplant appears. Usually, the more densely packed the result, the less lighting interferes. The angle of the light and how it reflects off the scalp will also make a difference. Only true density hair transplants can usually escape appearing thin under harsh lighting conditions.
Though qualified surgeons have made a case for hair transplant surgery as a viable solution for some younger balding men, the majority of young hair loss sufferers aren’t good candidates for surgical hair restoration. Young patients are more susceptible to aggressive future hair loss and due to a finite donor supply, their...