When can one shave a head leaving no visible scar after NeoGraft FUE?

Dear darshan21,Thank you for writing in with this question.  After an FUE surgery, or any surgery for that matter, there are scars. I know there is a lot of hype about “scarless surgery” in the field of hair restoration surgery, but the simple fact is that the hair follicle originate below the surface of the skin. To obtain them for transplantation, with any method at all, the skin must be pierced. Unless you’re a fetus in your mother’s womb, in which case I doubt you’d be posting questions to RealSelf, any time your skin is breached with a surgical instrument, it’s going to leave a permanent scar. Scars are by definition permanent. The advantage of the FUE procedure is that instead of a linear scar across the back of your head, you’re going to have many tiny round punctate scars in the donor area. If you shave your hair in the donor area, there will be evidence of the FUE procedure, most likely for 8-12 months until the scars from the FUE procedure have had time to fade and contract. After 4-6 weeks, I expect there to be some redness in the donor area, and the extraction sites from the FUE device will likely still be visible.I hope this information is helpful to you.

Both the FUE and the strip technique will leave a scar.  The main benefit of the FUE is that you can generally wear your hair far shorter than with the strip.  You are unlikely to ever be able to shave (Bic it down to the skin).  Usually with a strip technique, you can usually cut your hair to a minimum of #3 or #4 clipper and the scar will be hidden.  With FUE you can generally cut your hair to #1 or #2 clipper and the scars will not be visible.  I hope that helps.

Any incision in the skin will leave a scar.  This includes FUE methods.  The scars from FUE are just small 1mm scars.  These may be more or less visible depending on how your skin heals.  In general however, FUE scars would most likely be less visible in a shaved head than an FUT or strip scar because they are very small and broken up.  Hope this is helpful.  See this link for more information on FUT and FUE methods.

Sorry to disappoint you, but you will always have a scar if you shave even with NeoGraft or any FUE.  If you shave your head thousands of white dots scars will show.  You will need to grow out your hair a bit so hide the patchy scar.

The Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) method in hair restoration does leave a scar.  So if you were told that you would not have a scar, unfortunately, you were mislead.  The FUE method of extracting hair uses a small, round scalpel, or punch blade, varying in sizes most commonly around a 0.9 mm to 1.1 mm size.  Depending upon the size of the punch, a round scar about that size will also result.  The strip method of hair restoration is when an incision is made in the scalp and a strip of scalp is removed.  The area is sutured afterwards and the sutures either dissolve or are removed about a week later.  The result is a linear scar that most of the time is easily covered with hair.There is a misconception that FUE is scarless surgery.  There is no such thing as scarless surgery.