Will My Hair Transplant Ever Begin To Thin?

With today’s closure, if the donor hair is taken in the mid of the donor zone and not on the fringes, and with the techniques of the trichophytic closure, it’s highly unlikely that the scar would be so pronounced that it would cause an interference with your daily life or routine. We do need to understand that as time goes on, we all, all types of scalps, men and women, will go on to have what is called senile alopecia. There will be some type of thinning and loss of density throughout the whole scalp. So yes, it is possible when you get into the 70s and 80s, that some of the hair that is transplanted may shed and fall

If I Have a Hair Transplant, Can I Still Wear My Hair Short?

In general, people who always cut their hair very short would be able to more easily camouflage their donor scars if they did FUE. These are tiny little punctate scars versus a linear incision, however, what a lot of people don’t understand about FUE is that if you have the type of genetic hair loss that your hair loss is going to continue over time and you are going to need more hair transplantation as the years go on and as you age, and you continue to do the FUE type of hair transplants, you can almost get a moth eaten appearance in the donor area versus having a one little linear line that can be very easily covered by hair.

Is a Hair Transplant Advisable When Losing Hair Rapidly?

The most important thing that you need to do now is to come in and have a consultation, because the first order of business is to see if we can determine why your hair loss has been accelerating recently. There can be a variety of causes, it may simply be that your male pattern baldness has gone through a phase where it has accelerated, but it can also be something else, so we need to take a careful history and do a careful examination in order to rule out any underlying causes. I always feel that if a patient has entered into a period of accelerated hair loss, the first order of business is to try to stop that accelerated hair loss before we do hair transplantation.