Wearing tight head bands for long time and repetitive touching of recipient area damage the hair follicles.

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It has been 2 months since my hair transplant (fue). I wear really tight head band and touch my recipient area few times a day. Does this, by any means, causes degradation in hair growth? Some of the hairs has also not fallen off from the recipient area. Is this okay?

Jae Pak, MD · Answer

Wearing tight head bands for long time and repetitive touching of recipient area is probably not a good idea.  You need to check with your doctor if you are having issues.

Craig L. Ziering, DO · Answer

A tight headband would not be recommended during immediate post op. However, at 2 months you will not be causing any damage to the grafted area. I also don’t recommend frequently touching the grafted areas as it is possible for you to introduce a bacterial infection to the scalp. Typically most, if not all, of the grafted hairs will be shed between the first few weeks to few months post op.

Baubac Hayatdavoudi, MD · Answer

Be sure to keep the recipient area clean and follow you doctors post op instructions to the letter and you will be fine. Happy growing!

Ramtin A. Cohanim, MD · Answer

At this point (two months) you can consider the transplanted hairs the same as the non transplanted hairs.  So touching and a tight hair band should not alter finsl results. 
It's ok that some of the hairs have not fallen. This happens occasionally.

Amit Gupta, MD - Account Suspended · Answer

Thank you for asking the question.
We suggest the wearing of head-band only for 3 days post-surgery. The idea is to reduce swelling. Touching makes no-difference to the hair-roots. In-fact even if you touch the transplanted recipient-zone the next day still it would make no difference to the hair-root. So, at this time after 2 months you are anyway at the phase where most of the hair is fallen off. So, just sit-back, relax and allow the hair to grow; take its natural course. Hair growth starts around in 3 months and it should take you around 8 to 9 months for a complete result.
  
Regards, Dr. Amit Gupta

William Rassman, MD (retired) · Answer

tight head bands and touching the recipient area should not do any harm at 2 moths, but be careful about too much touching of your recipient site as you can introduce infections

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