Transplanted Hair Has Not Shed after Surgery

[abhiasv]

I had my ht in the last week of feb 2014 with 2450 graft transplanted on my frontal area. My doc had told me that the transplanted hair will fall within two months and new growth will start by the 3rd month. But its been more than 3 months and the transplanted hair havenot fallen. I am very worried pls advice

[Dutch]

Some of the grafts should shed but not necessarily all of it. You sure you didn't shed grafts? Any pics? Have you contacted whomever the surgeon is?

[Transhair]

Are the grafts still growing? If they are then you're just one of the lucky people who don't shed, something like 5% of patients keep a reasonable amount of the grafts.

Only reason to worry would be if they were all dead and just sitting in your scalp still.

[scooter]

The same thing happened to me. I was concerned at about 3.5months and before I knew it at 4 months, those same hairs were actually growing. The same may be happening to you. Good luck and keep us posted

 

Scott

[Stuart01]

In most cases the transplant hair will start to shed +/- 10 days after a procedure and continue to shed up to about 30 days after a procedure. In some case they might continue to still shed after 30 days. For some reason in a small percentages of cases the hairs do not shed but that is not the norm. Hair will grow at a rate of approximately 1/2" per month. If the transplanted hairs are at least an 1" long than most likely they never fell out. If they are very short than they most likely are the transplanted hairs starting to grow back.