Shave Head Before Hair Transplant

It is necessary to shave the donor zone (Back of the scalp) before an FUE hair transplant procedure.  However, the rest of the head typically does not need to be shaved especially in the hairline area.  Occasionally I will recommend it to patients with longer hair as sometimes creating recipient sites and placing the grafts is more difficult in patients with longer hair.  However in the hairline I find it not necessary in the majority of cases to shave.

If the procedure you are doing is an FUE, then we shave the area that will be harvested in the back of your head. This is called the "donor" area, and it's the space between both of your ears horizontally.  To place your grafts on the top of your head, it is usually easier to make the sites and place the grafts if that area is shaven or cut short.  However, we can work around longer hair by moving it aside when making the sites.  At Loria Hair Restoration, we give you the option of using the manual technique, or choosing the  State-of-the-Art ARTAS iX Robot.  If you choose the Robot, then the protocol is to have the head completely shaven. 

Hi
We usually shave the all head. But if your transplant area is small (usually hair line) we can just shave the donor area 

Patients typically shave the donor area ( or portion of the donor area).  Use of longer hair to cover the shaved hair (sometimes referred to as stealth hair transplant) or incorporating a shaved transition to the rest of the hairline can make recovery rather quick.  I myself had the procedure performed in my office by my partner (Dr. Chughtai) on a Friday and went back to work on Monday!!  Best Dr. Anil Shah

Thank you for your question.  With the FUE method of hair transplants, you will need to shave the donor site (back of the scalp) before your procedure.  The good news is that in DHI method of hair transplants most cases you will not need to shave the entire head .
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Güncel Öztürk

Hello, Thank you for your question. I usually recommend to my patients to shave their hair before the operation to get the best and densest result. But in some cases patients with long hair want to keep their hair. So we shave their donor area as they could hide long hair and do the operation as without shaving.

Generally before the hair transplantation the hair will be shaved but sometimes patients can chose FUE WİTHOUT SHAVİNG we can do it unshaved. This the method that we can apply for some patient. 

It is not a requirement to shave the head before any hair transplant that I perform, including FUE transplant procedures using Neograft. I do recommend cutting the hair shorter than normal, and the donor area at the back of the head must be cut short in order to harvest the grafts. In some cases, this can be camouflaged with longer hair and creatively locating the donor areas, but most patients decide to cut the hair short in order to facilitate the procedure. Shaving the head totally is not required.
All the best,

I usually recommend to male patients that they keep their hair short or shave with a #1 guard prior to the procedure. If they do not, we generally shave the back of the head prior to the procedure, as the hair follicles need to be short in order to harvest and prepare for grafting. With your hair relatively short, it takes only about 10-14 days after the procedure for the hair to regain a natural appearance in the harvest site.Hope this helps!

We encourage our patients to get a fade prior (a #1 will do) to your procedure.  The donor site will need to be shaved in order to abstract the hair follicle.  The great news is that you really don't need to shave where the hair follicle will be transplanted to.  Please talk to your doctor about your pre-operative instructions.

During the procedure, we will prepare the donor site hair (in the back of head) by clipping the hair relatively short. The recipient sites (frontal hair line, vertex of scalp etc) are left long and unclipped because it helps to establish the direction of hair growth, and thus the direction of hair transplant placement.