Transplant Failure

[Guest HelpNeedHair]

I have had a few transplants in the last 5 years all with fairly good results.

However, the last one I had which was about 1 year ago yielded horrible results.

It was primarily in the crown and I allegedly got 1400 fu. It looks like very little coverage.

Can a transplant just not grow at times?

[Guest HelpNeedHair]

I have had a few transplants in the last 5 years all with fairly good results.

However, the last one I had which was about 1 year ago yielded horrible results.

It was primarily in the crown and I allegedly got 1400 fu. It looks like very little coverage.

Can a transplant just not grow at times?

[arfy]

As Smoothy said, the crown can reportedly respond slowerr than other areas.

 

However, depending on the size of the crown area, 1400 grafts may not go very far. The crown can use up a lot of grafts.

 

There is also the possibility that you are not getting a 100% yield on your transplanted grafts (for whatever reason the graft survival was not a perfect 100%, whether it was doctor error, poor healing, etc).

 

Or it could be a combination of things. I would hang tight and hope that things improve, unless you were grafting into a large area. In that case it may not be realistic to expect a lot of coverage from 1400 grafts.

 

You probably know that the front of the head benefits from a "shingle" effect... the grafts all go in the same general direction. The grafts can shingle (overlay) each other and suggest a more impressive coverage.

 

In the crown, there is less shingling: the hair is supposed to go in a swirl pattern, and the roundness of the skull also detracts from the shingle effect.

 

Theoretically you could use up an entire donor supply just grafting into the crown area. So it's probably unrealistic to expect a lot of density after transplanting the crown.

 

However, you may already know all that. Maybe you had realistic expectations, and feel disappointed that your results aren't meeting those expectations...? It's possible that you didn't get a good yield from the grafts that you moved.

 

Since you describe your results from this last session as "horrible" that may be what happened.