Thank you for your question.
You have submitted photos after undergoing hair transplant.
And you state in your question that after a regimen that involved minoxidil and then
proper washing of your scalp, that on day – by day 12, that you had lost about 50
percent of your graphs.
Well, I can certainly give you some guidance in the absence of an actual physical examination.
My background is, I’m a board certified Cosmetic Surgeon.
I’ve been performing hair transplant for over 20 years.
I’m very active in hair loss so I’ve developed a system.
And I’m the founder of TrichoStem Hair Regeneration Center, a non-surgical alternative to hair
transplant using regenerative medicine technology.
In fact, people who have had hair transplants actually come to see us for this technology
to help them with the healing of their transplants.
But I think that your question, you really should be clear with your doctor -- have your
doctor guide you as to understanding what is going on.
But I’ll tell you when we explain to our patients after this type of surgery.
First of all, when a graph is placed into the scalp, it heals remarkably fast.
So what you – what I’ve always told patients is that even after a few days, in order for
that graph to fall out, you actually have to cut it out.
So what you may be interpreting as graphs falling out, maybe very much of a shedding
process.
Now typically it seems a little bit early for this much shedding to go on.
But shock loss of hair happens not only to the graphs, but also to the native hairs because
of the trauma of surgery.
In fact, the development of our hair regeneration system was in fact originally intended to
improve the healing of graphs at the time of surgery so that they would more likely
survive as well as to help to heal the donor area.
What we’ve noticed is that we found that we also got less shock loss of the graphs.
And in addition, we were able to get thickening of existing hairs.
Long story short, just to give you a little background of what my approach is for people
like yourself is that we actually saw that when we used a non-surgical approach for people
with thinning hair – not bald people but thinning hair, the natural volume and density
of the existing hair has actually increased significantly such that it actually exceeded
the results of a hair transplant.
Now for people like yourself, we have patients who come from around the world who have had
a hair transplant and very often what we have found is when they come in about a month or
so after the transplant and they have a hair regeneration treatment, it actually accelerates
the healing process so that the graphs appear to grow a little bit faster.
Again, this is all clinical observation but that’s been our observation.
I would suggest that you meet with your doctor and have them look at your scalp.
I think it’s not likely that you loss graphs; that more likely you lost scabs, you lost
some of the top of the dry skin that goes with the graphs.
But the actual follicle is most likely still intact.
Now when that’ll grow, you have about a year to wait to see that happened.
So again, understanding the physiology and the natural wound healing process should give
you some comfort.
But I know this first year after transplant can be very, very tricky and a lot of times
people can look like they have less hair at a certain point from the combination of shedding
of graphs and the shedding of existing hairs.
And it can take up to 18 months to see the results and the final results.
So again, I hope that was helpful.
I wish you the best of luck.
Thank you for your question.