Can your hair fall out after a hair transplant?

[Darkknight]

I posted this on your community here http://www.hairtransplantcommunity.com/Darkknight/ but I don't know if I did it right so i am going to ask here also.

I am really curious to hear other guys experiences with having a hair transplant, I have been reading that all the hair can just fallout afterwards. Is this really true?

[gillenator]

I posted this on your community here http://www.hairtransplantcommunity.com/Darkknight/ but I don't know if I did it right so i am going to ask here also.

I am really curious to hear other guys experiences with having a hair transplant, I have been reading that all the hair can just fallout afterwards. Is this really true?

Darknight,

It's two different issues. The first fallout post-op has to do with what we refer to as "sympathetic shockloss" of one's exisiting native hair that may momentarily fall out as a direct result in how one's scalp may respond to the trauma. The level of shockloss varies as well, but unless that native hair is extremely diffused or weak, it will grow back after resting.

The other type is the actual transplanted hair stubbles that fall out and usually with the crusts post-op. Again, the hair follicles regrow a new hair shaft after it has rested between 3-4 months.

Do more research on it and you'll gain a better understanding.

[Dr. Glenn Charles]

Most hair transplant doctors agree that original hairs that fallout shortly after the surgery will most likely grow back either just before or at the same time as the grafted hairs. Any native hairs that shed due to shock and do not grow back were on the verge of dying and would have fallen out within the next 6-12 months even if the patient never had the surgery. It is important that the doctor making the recipient sites use high powered magnification to avoid physically harming any if the original existing hair follicles.

[gillenator]

That's a good point that Dr. Charles has made regarding damage to the surrounding hair within the recipient area. It's called transection and why it's critical that the surgeon be able to clearly see the protruding angulation of the existing hair as he makes the new recipient incisions to add density.