Can I grow dreadlocks after a hair transplant?

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I have alopecia and have always wanted dreads. So I'm wondering if I get a hair transplant and use products to prevent hair loss could I grow dreads? Btw I'm 22.

Jae Pak, MD · Answer

There should be no issue of growing dreadlocks after a hair transplant since the transplanted hair will grow like your own hair.

E. Ronald Finger, MD · Answer

Without photos, that's actually an impossible question to answer accurately. However there is no reason that you can't make dreadlocks after a hair transplant, providing you have enough hair. The hair will be the same quality of your hair at your donor site, the back of your scalp. Dreadlocks do take enough hair, wax and lots of time and patience, as you probably know. Your tair transplant surgeon can better answer this after examining you or at least seeing photos.Thank you for your question. Hair transplant are usually extremely gratifying. I suggest the NeoGraft technique. Good luck

William Rassman, MD (retired) · Answer

Your biggest enemy is the
progressive nature of balding that comes about from genetic male patterned hair
loss. What will happen in the next 5 or so years is probably that you will
continue losing hair in the pattern that you inherited from your parents and
grandparents. Your looks show early balding now, but this is the time to meet
with a good doctor who can make the correct diagnosis and start you on the drug
finasteride, which is highly effective at stopping progressive balding and
possibly reversing it in men of your age. Get Bulk Measurements of your hair to
determine where your present balding is now, and then after you go on the
medications, such measurements will tell if the treatment is working within a
year or so. If you are developing a more advanced balding pattern which the
Bulk Measurements will show over a one year time frame, then you and your
doctor need to develop a MASTER PLAN and that Master Plan might have
transplants as an option. With early balding, I would not rush to hair transplants
if the drug alone will solve the problem and you will know this within a year.When you finally are old enough to warrant a hair transplant, you can grow dreds if you wish.

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