Concealers and Post op

[Mike Beehner, M.D.]

One very valuable use of concealers, in my opinion, is getting the non-surgical hairpiece wearer out of his piece sooner. It is a well known fact that in some hairpiece patients the grafts don't always survive quite as well for reasons still unknown. I find that a little Toppik or Dermmatch (the main two I recommend), along with the hair from one or two sessions of growth allows them to throw away the piece and allow the grafts to grown unaffected by a rug on top of them. Hopefully, after a second or third session grows out fully, they can get rid of the camouflage agent also.
Regardless, in hairpiece wearing HT patients, we insists on their not wearing the hairpiece the first week post-op and then adapting it to a clip-on attachment method and leaving it off at home as much as possible, only wearing it in necessary work or social situations.
Mike Beehner, M.D.