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When the procedure is finished the patient goes back to they're room,
they change into they're day clothes and
the nurce and myself go through the post-operative instructions with them making
sure they fully understand them
. We give them a printed copy of those.
One of the most important things post operatively is to keep the area
moist
cause wounds that are kept moist heal twice as fast as dry ones.
It also prevents any scabs or blood cloths forming.
We ask our patients to spray the area intensively and we give them all the
equipment to do so
and
for most of the evening after the surgery they would do this. We then normally
see the patients the next morning
to make sure that all the graphs are properly aligned and that there will be no
incidents
during the night.
If we do a transplant on somebody who actually has existing hair on the scalp
whithin forty eight hours
believe it or not there is absolutely nothing visible.
I've had well-known celebrities
who've gone on stage orin front of camera
within four days of their surgery and nobody detected that they had a hair
transplant.
However if we take a bald man and we put three and a half thousand graphs that
seven thousand hairs onto his scap, well obviously something is visible
but amazingly
it looks more like a haircut, a short haircut.
The areas are a little bit pink for about forty eight or seventy two hours
but with constant spraying with saltwater initally and then normal water
the area of redness and pinkness settles down very, very quickly and really
it just looks like a short haircut.