Natural vs Transplanted Hair

[Glasswing]

If I were to take a pair of tweezers and pull out a naturally growing hair, it would eventually grow back. 

If I were to do the same with a hair that grew after being transplanted (say a year after, after it's had time to mature), would it also grow back? Is it gone forever?

 

Basically, what are the differences between a natural and a transplanted hair? How do you need to care for transplanted hairs differently than if they had just stayed in your donor area? Are they for all intents and purposes equal, simply in a different location? What might cause you to lose those transplanted hairs permanently?

[HappyMan2021]

1 hour ago, Glasswing said:

If I were to take a pair of tweezers and pull out a naturally growing hair, it would eventually grow back. 

If I were to do the same with a hair that grew after being transplanted (say a year after, after it's had time to mature), would it also grow back? Is it gone forever?

bumping this. this is also a shower thought I continuously have

[EvoXOhio]

Yes it would grow back, just like any other hair 

[giegnosiganoe]

I've wondered how long do you need to wait before it's safe to pluck the hair? The graft is rooted by day 10, so technically it should be fine to pluck it by then?  

[aaron1234]

You are transplanting the root (hair bulb), not the hair itself.  So pluck if you want, though there is a theory that hairs can only survive so much plucking.  Case in point, women's eyebrows from the 90's. 

[Glasswing]

True, I've heard that any hair has a limit. But that's interesting, so it basically is the same thing just in a new location. But when I pluck a hair and at the end of it there is a little bulbous or thicker or whitish part that I would call "the root" - that's not really the root? There is more to the hair beyond that which is needed for the transplant?

[deeznuts]

14 hours ago, aaron1234 said:

You are transplanting the root (hair bulb), not the hair itself.  So pluck if you want, though there is a theory that hairs can only survive so much plucking.  Case in point, women's eyebrows from the 90's. 

That's some pretty good news for my unibrow

[EvoXOhio]

5 hours ago, deeznuts said:

That's some pretty good news for my unibrow

I’ve been plucking my unibrow weekly for over 20 years and it’s the same as it always was. 

[aaron1234]

47 minutes ago, EvoXOhio said:

I’ve been plucking my unibrow weekly for over 20 years and it’s the same as it always was. 

Same.  But I know my sister really plucked her eyebrows in her teens and has more sparse eyebrows now because of it. Some women resort to transplanting new eyebrows.