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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...
It sounds like you may be experiencing donor area telogen effluvium or "shock loss", a temporary hair loss caused by the trauma of surgery. This doesn't happen in every patient, but it's certainly not considered abnormal. In most cases, this hair loss is temporary and shocked hair will begin to grow back around...
Transplanted hair only typically starts to grow between 3 to 5 months after the hair transplant procedure. New hair typically starts growing fine and colorless and slowly thickens, darkens, and matures over time. Your new hair will also start to grow at different times at not all at once. This process of maturation takes up to a year which is why reserving...
There's a possibility that you have some kind of scalp infection (seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis, eczema, folliculitis, etc.) that could be the underlying problem for the scalp inflammation. Alternatively, scalp itchiness can be a sign of new transplanted hair growth yet to come. The actual action of scratching your scalp itself might be causing the redness and inflammation. The good news is...
This topic has been discussed several times on our hair restoration forum. Whereas some have conjectured situations where it may be possible we have not seen or heard about a a case yet where health insurance covered their hair transplant surgery. Surgical hair restoration is an elective...
Graftcyte is rich in copper peptides and may help as a healing agent the first few weeks after a hair transplant. However, it is not required for proper healing nor will it have any effect on transplanted hair growth, positive or negative. If you'd rather save yourself the expense, contact your doctor and...
Postoperative numbness after a hair transplant may only last a few days or could take several months or even up to a year to dissipate. In my personal experience, any numbness only lasted a few days for my first two hair restoration procedures...
Though the transplanted hair is permanently set in place by 10 to 14 days, the recipient area will remain a bit sensitive as its healing. You will be safe at 3 weeks using a warm or hot setting as long as you don't linger in an area too long to burn the scalp. To this day though, I still use...
Damage done to the scalp during hair transplant surgery such as pitting or cobblestoning cannot be undone. However, hair transplant repair options exist that might improve your appearance by camouflaging any "pitting" (which you referred to as dents) or old hair plugs. Hair transplant repair is...
3.5 months after a hair transplant is extremely early in the game. Most patients only start to experience new hair growth between 3 to 5 months. Understand that transplanted hair typically starts growing thin, fine, and colorless, invisible to the naked eye, but can be felt...
Hair transplant postoperative redness can last a couple weeks up to a few months in some patients, especially those with fair skin. Postoperative scalp redness however, does not have to dissipate for you to be able to go back to the gym. You can resume some physical activity 10-14 days after hair restoration surgery such as...
Physical activity after hair transplant surgery, including sex, is a very relevant concern to be addressed by your hair transplant surgeon. Read this article and discern whether or not sex immediately after hair restoration surgery is wise.
Firstly, try not to overstress yourself. 7 months after hair restoration surgery is too soon to evaluate the final result. Many patients start to see significant hair growth at this point, but the hair has a lot of...
The first two weeks after a hair replacement surgery are critical in terms of healing and securing of the follicular unit grafts in the scalp. Anytime after that, you are safe to brush your hair...
Firstly, don't panic. Though sunburn on a freshly transplanted scalp could be treacherous, at one month after surgery, the follicles are alive and well underneath the scalp. Patients are advised to keep their scalp away from the sun for the first several months because...
The results from hair transplant surgery are a gradual process. When hairs start to grow, they poke through the skin as thin, fine, and colorless, not visible to the naked eye but can be felt with the fingertips. 6 months is really way too early to make...
You are definitely not the first person to bump your head only a few days after hair transplant surgery. But since you haven't seen any bleeding and all the grafts appear to be in tact, I am quite sure that you...