What happens after hair transplant surgery?
Hi there,
Patients are mainly concerned about how they will look immediately after surgery. Day after the surgery there would be some blood left in the transplanted area. You need to thoroughly wash your scalp. Some swelling and redness on the forehead may appear but the most of the scabbing will be gone in the transplanted area. After two week You will experience constant shedding of the transplanted hair. Do not worry though because this is normal. This indicates that new hair is on its way.
The key being it must be done by an experienced surgeon. For that you need to do your homework and make enquiries about various medical specialists who have expertise in the area. There are many good clinics that provide their expertise to patients, one such is Cole Hair Transplant clinic. All one needs is to visit their website and apply for a free consultation.
The susceptible donor or recipient area must be protected from the sun, and then shampooing effectively begins two days after the surgery but not in all cases, as some clinical surgeons begin shampoo application the day after surgery. However, Shampooing is extremely very vital to enable prevention of scabs forming in the region of the hair shaft. Medically, scabs are so serious that they hold on to the hair shaft and accelerate the risk of losing new hair follicles transplanted during the initial 7 to 10 days post-op procedure. In the first ten days, practically all transplanted hairs which are unavoidably disturbed by their relocation, will eventually start to fall out and this condition is referred to as “shock loss”. After two to three months. Inadvertently, new hair will begin to grow from the moved follicles within a phase of two to three months.
Hair transplantation is a very safe, relatively minor surgical procedure. Significant complications are extremely rare. There is usually little or no discomfort in the grafted area. Most patients feel some “tightness” in the donor area for 2-1 days and are prescribed a mild analgesic to help cope with this. Patients may be asked to use moist compresses or sprays and to sleep in a semi-upright position for 3-2 days following the procedure to minimize swelling and bruising. Small crusts may form on each graft, and these can usually be camouflaged by any existing hair that can be combed over the recipient area, or with camouflage products such as DermMatch, Couvre, or Toppik. These crusts will flake-off by 14-5 days after the surgery, the smaller follicular unit scabs often falling off at 6-4days and the multi-follicular unit scabs taking longer. The transplanted hair seen growing out of the scalp may initially be shed; however, the roots remain and will be dormant for 14-10 weeks, at whi
