Very dumb thought: Does one side of the body heal better than the other?

[Transhair]

Looking through a bunch of hair transplant threads, quite a few otherwise successful transplants (not a lot but enough to notice) seem to always have one side 'lagging behind' and it never quite catches up and this side often seems to be the left side, which would be the non dominant one for most people...

Like, the dominant side of the face is usually stronger and more well developed, so would the body prioritize healing on that side as well, leading to more likely better hair transplant results on that side?

[Dutchie]

Its not dumb at all, Trans. For me my hairgrowth seems to come in sections as well.

 

It's like each follicle has a little mind of its own

[DavidAnderson]

From looking at many guys hairlines over the years it tends to be that the right side of the hairline is worse than the left in general so it could is very possible that the right side might be slower to see results than the left.

[pkipling]

I'm not sure about the physiological aspect of this, but I have also seen it suggested that the difference in results on either side of the head can occasionally be attributed to the different technicians working on each side - if one is more experienced than the other, for example. I haven't seen many cases like this personally and don't think this is particularly common, but I do remember this coming up from time to time on the forum over the past couple of years.

[gillenator]

Although it is not unusual for one side of the scalp to be more responsive, it is not necessarily a clinical verification. Some guys like myself do not have any difference on either side.

 

Some individuals tend to experience more thinning on one side and can be attributable to where they part their hair or how they groom from side to side, meaning left-to-right or vice versa.