Hair Transplant Blog

Doctor,
In August, I have had an hair transplant (not with you but with another serious surgeon, who is registered at the National medical association too) on my back area and I think I am feeling the hair coming out of my head. I already had a hair transplant with this Doctor, about 3 years ago, and I was really happy about the final result. At the beginning of August I asked him to perfect the previous surgery because a little line was hairless…but what worries me is the fall of the grafts implanted three years ago. In fact, although grafts existed on the left side of my front area, now I have this hairless strip. A few days ago this Doctor told me, once more, that the older grafts are going to grow back. If I am still worried, and I needed to ask to another specialist his advice, it is because after 4 months those grafts did not grow back (they fall 2 weeks after the second surgery). That is why I would like to know if the grafts that I lost (because of the anaesthesia? of the shock due to the new grafts placed next to them? …) will grow back for sure, and never fall again like the former ones?

Considering this hair loss process, it seems that you had a shock loss. Even if usually the shock loss occurs on the third month. Shock loss concerns, very often, already existent hair especially if there is a high degree of miniaturisation and it is linked to the degree of aggressiveness of the procedure. Personally, I am always extremely careful when there is a risk of shock loss. I never use adrenaline, and I reduce the number of incisions. I always ask my patients to take propecia and to use minoxidil during the weeks preceding the surgery. A shock loss of former grafts is very rare, really unusual. In spite of the fact that when you lose hair because of a hair transplant it can be permanent, with former grafts it is very exceptional if they do not grow back. That is why I recommend you to wait a couple of months before to consider a correction…