What to Expect 6 Months After Hair Transplant?

I typically see patients results almost double from the 6 month to 12 month period.  Although grafts grow at varying rates in patients, the majority of my patients have fair growth at the 6 month period.  When I do their 1 year followup and we compare photos they have almost double the results.  My advice would be to wait it out as you can be in the early stages of results.

Hair growth after surgery is a gradual process. You were right to wait at least 6 months, but growth can come in phases. Usually we see our patients back at 8 months, but in some cases patients get their best and most full growth at 1 year.
After a full year, if there is not sufficient growth, you should have an evaluation to assess if there is any other medical issue preventing hair growth or if there was some complication during the surgery that compromised the survival of your grafts.
Hope that helps!

Sounds like you had a great procedure!  At 6 months, you will see some growth, but you need to wait a full year before you see the full results of your surgery.  Please be patient!  With the amount of grafts you had, you should have a great result.

This is a very common concern and question. Hair transplant results take time though so it's essential to be patient. There will likely be additional growth between 6months to a year. So it's too early to become frustrated by your results. As always, it's best to discuss your concerns with your surgeon. They can compare your before and after results to show you the progress you've made. 

I need to give it a little more time up to eight months at least if not more up to 12 to get a full results and then reassess this with your hair restoration professional.

Thank you for your question. This is a common situation for two reasons. The first is that at 6 months you only have 50% of the final aesthetic result. This is because only 80% of the hairs have grown and the thickness of the transplanted follicles is less than that of your normal hair. A small reduction in shaft thickness can make a large difference to the 'coverage' a patient gains on their scalp. The second is that the crown area is generally an area in which is traditionally difficult to transplant. Much because the surface area of the crown in much larger than your frontal hairline. Most of the time a standard 2600 surgery is split in half; 1300 follicles in the front and 1300 follicles at the back. This results in unsatisfactory results in the crown area. Also if you look at native follicles in a healthy crown there are few 1 and 2 hair follicles there are more 3-5 hair follicles in this region. Therefore, most FUE surgeries result in an average of 2-2.5 hairs per follicle (this is dependent on surgeon). This results in the need to have double the amount of follicles in the crown area to achieve good coverage. So the question is why do we not do this? Well you will lose hair in the future and if you have 6000 grafts transplanted in one go you may not have a donor reserve in the future, so unless you want to go to one of the countries who are notorious for duping patients into getting more grafts on the cheap we have to find different ways to addressing this conundrum. We adopt methods such as double follicular units and cross hatch follicles to make magic with fewer follicles and leave you with enough hair in the future to address ongoing hair loss.