JohnnyBald

Most doctors use the same freezing as a dentist so it is quite safe.

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How many people died at a dentist's clinic ?

Hi,

I'm exactly 4 months post op and don't see any new hair coming out

Is this normal ?

No offense, but this is such a basic question that's been gone over a billion times. Most hair doesn't begin to grow until about 4 months.

 

I'm not sure how much research you did before the transplant, but do a google search of hair transplant growth timeline to get an idea of where you should be at, at a certain point. Also, everyone grows differently, so don't fret if you aren't where 'this' guy was at a certain point.

My clinic post op instructions say that new hair should start growing after 3 months

Hi,

I'm exactly 3 months post op and don't see any new hair coming out, I don't feel any stubble when touching recipient area.

Is this normal ?

I have noticed an important detail when you look at Before/after pictures posted by Hasson & Wong clinic in their website

If you pay attention to the background ( the blue wall behind the patient) , you can notice they use different lighting depending the picture was taken after or before, like for example here, the wall color changes

https://hassonandwong.com/hair-transplant-results/patient-1918/?v=3e8d115eb4b3

Not only just this patient , but I was feeling this is the case of all patient pictures posted.

I was wondering if they use different lighting when taking pictures after to make the transplanted hair looks thicker than it is in reality

Another option if the gap behind your transplanted hair isn't large, is to back your hair to the back to cover the bald area

It looks you have a large area to cover, I'm afraid that 3000 grafts aren't enough

Not properly taking care of crusting/scabbing is also a possibility. That's why I am going to go into the clinic for post-op care as many times as need be after getting my procedure. Not taking any risks.

actually scrubbing crusts and scabs very hard the first few days to remove them too early can dislodge grafts. Keeping scabs/ crusts for too long might slow down the growth but don't think it would kill the grafts

A HT candidate's greatest fear is poor growth. This rarely happens but given the stakes, it's hard not to fret over. But the reasons for it are elusive. Far as I can see, 'physiology', poor post-op care and clinic error are proposed leading causes. My (admittedly lay) opinion is that clinics pull the 'physiology' card to protect their interests, knowing they either screwed it up or speculating that the patient executed post-op care instructions poorly, with no way to prove the latter and hence opting for the less "personal" explanation of 'physiology'. No satisfactory explanation has been put forth to explain what constitutes poor HT 'physiology', in my opinion evidence that it's BS. This leaves poor post-op care and clinic error. Assuming you don't buy the 'physiology' explanation, which of these predominates? Or is there another possible cause or set of causes? My lay suspicion is that hair follicles are extraordinarily temperamental and the margin for error when handling them outside the body is low :eek:.

I don't think that post-op care is the main cause of poor growth unless you bumped your head or rubbed your scalp very hard the first few days to dislodge grafts.

I had a third surgery one month ago (FUT) to double the density of the transplanted area from the previous two surgeries.

I'm assuming that all the new transplanted hair should have shed at this point, although cannot tell the difference between the new hairs and the existing ones from previous procedures.

I have some concerns because It looks that a lot of previously transplanted hair from previous procedure didn't grow back ( the doctor shaved my recipient area before the surgery), now I have new bald spots that were previously covered with transplanted hair from previous procedures and it looks patchy now and worse than before my last surgery.

I read about shock loss but it should affect only weak native hair that was going to fall anyway but the transplanted hairs are supposed to be permanent'

I'm afraid that the Doctor damaged the follicles from previous surgery when he made incisions.

Anyone has a similar experience having a procedure to add more density to existing transplanted hair ?