is this a bad donor?

[honey21790]

 

 

 

 

Edited December 15, 2023 by honey21790

[Cory]

Well yes, I would say both. Harsh light and donor bit thin.

I had a bit of retrograde, and oral minoxidil 'cured' it completely. You can try that if you can.

[Rahal Hair Transplant]

@honey21790,

to be honest, the photos are not ideal but when I look at the pictures, in particular, the photo showing the side of the head… there definitely seems to be some thinner or thinning areas. The question is, what are they and why?

Typically, thinner looking donors are not ideal to proceed with hair transplant surgery because it limits how much hair can be safely moved. Also, if the thinner donor is indicative of an ongoing hair loss issue such as retrograde alopecia, diffused unpatterned alopecia, etc. then there essentially is no safe area to harvest hair from for transplanting.  Ultimately, if that hair was programmed to fall out due to either of these hair loss conditions, transplanting it into another area of the scalp won’t prevent this from happening.   If you possess either of these hair loss conditions, there’s really no way to know for sure which hairs in the donor are programmed to fall out and which ones aren’t.

Now, in the first picture… Is that the same as the other two but with longer hair? Because the first picture makes it look like the donor could be acceptable for transplanting.  But, if this is the same scalp, it goes to show that a picture can’t necessarily determine with 100% certainty if somebody is a candidate for surgery or not.  Sometimes what appears true in a picture is later debunked in person during an evaluation.

I hope this helps,

Patient Advocate - Rahal Hair Transplant

[honey21790]

On 12/14/2023 at 5:53 PM, Rahal Hair Transplant said:

 

 

Edited December 15, 2023 by honey21790