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Transplanted Hairs Falling Out 5-10 Days Post Surgery (FUT)? Date of transplant: 4th of
2000 grafts - 3500 hairs. Is this a normality that the hairs are falling out this early
in? I've read that the hairs usually shed after 3-4 weeks time. I might have managed
to dislodge a couple of grafts, but no more. Have the hairs anchored by this time? Certain
areas are entirely hairless and scab less. Thus far, I've paid my doctor 2-3 visits ever
since the hair transplant was carried out. He tells me there is nothing to worry about
and that everything looks just fine. Thanks, in advance.
Thank you for your question!
You submitted your question stating that several of your transplanted hairs falling out 5-10
days after surgery and is this normal. And that you have gone back to your doctor several
times and your doctor reassuring you.
As a specialist in hair loss treatment and we have been in a remarkable leadership position
with a technology we developed called Hair Regeneration which I will discuss more on
detail. I can share with you a lot about the experience of hair transplant is and what
it means when people loose grafts. You see, hair transplant is literally the movement
of an entire hair follicle into a small slit. Usually, what happens is the skin heals and
tissue heals well enough that majority of the time, the dermal papilla or the part of
the hair necessary for growth can be intact even if a grafts continues to fall out.
The general term used for grafts falling out during this early post-operative period is
called shock loss. Shock loss happens to both the grafts as well as the adjacent hairs.
Shock loss can happen to the hair grafts as well as the adjacent hairs that are subjected
to the swelling and trauma of the actual procedure.
In our practice, we have been doing our transplants with a material called extracellular matrix
and platelet-rich plasma and we've seen a significant improvement in the rate of shock
loss so that this difficult transition period is a little bit easier. But even with advanced
healing technology, we still have certain period which you can call the doldrums where
there's a whole nothing going on. The existing hairs can look a little thinner, the grafts
are not growing and you don't see the grafts anymore and you wonder somewhere in the early
4-6 month period if you lost all the grafts. It's a little bit a nail biting period but
I can tell you that the hair is remarkably resilient. We know this especially from the
field of laser hair removal where people come for multiple laser hair treatments to actually
kill a hair where you really don't kill the hair but suppress growth for a long period
of time. Also, several studies have demonstrated that hairs are transplanted, even if the dermal
papilla, the base is not intact and the middle part of the hairs or the hair shaft is transplanted,
a hair still can grow.
The reality about hair is that there is so much about it we don't know. When we developed
our Hair Regeneration method, we looked at the basic science research to help us understand
this better and it is remarkable how much we do know and how much there is left to know
and you probably will always hear periodically every few months of a new method of potentially
in the future, hair cloning but clearly we are not there yet.
Another thing that I would suggest considering when I looked at your photo, I noticed that
the level of receding in your frontal hairline, you may want to discuss with your doctor the
use of some type of oral medications such as finasteride even at the current time a
lot are nervous about finasteride. In our practice, many people come to us for Hair
Regeneration treatment which is a non-surgical injection that helps reverse the thinning
process of hair through a method we believe is the restoration of critical stem cells
as part of wound healing mechanism that really stops the thinning process so many people
who had a transplant and would try to avoid a second transplant actually benefit because
we are keeping the hairs. That's one of the things that we have certainly been gratified
about is that traditional hair transplant philosophy is you restore to try to keep the
appearance of hairs in areas which are actively healing. So invariable, in a person who wants
to get one transplant will need a second transplant, possible a third or even a fourth depending
how much donor they have. Unfortunately, there's a limit of how much donor you do have.
Hair Regeneration has been able to balance out our hair transplant very well so that
we are able not only improve our transplant procedure but also prevent the progression
and actually thicken and reverse thinning hair.
Something that would help you understand something about the physiology of hair. so essentially
you just have to wait this out. You have to follow-up with your doctor and for most of
our patients we tell them that the final results is somewhere in a year to 15 months. There
is a lot of variability between the hair growth cycle of individuals and so some people grow
faster, some people grow slower but ultimately, but the one year point, you are close to the
90% zone of recovery but we have seen in 15 months people the combination of the loss
from shock where there are grafts or the native hairs eventually synchronizes to the point
where the growth and density actually match to give you a better sense of the final result.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question!