What is the difference between common shedding and shock loss after an FUE?

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Jae Pak, MD · Answer

Shedding is the loss of the transplanted hairs. Shock loss on the other hand is hair loss surrounding the transplanted area. Generally, the hair lost during shock loss will return.

Sagar Patel, MD · Answer

Shock loss is also known as telogen effluvium. Typically you will loose hairs surrounding the transplanted hairs. This is secondary to the ‘stress’ they experience. We do things like PRP and a low dose and short oral steroid course to help this. Shedding is when the follicles that we’re transplanted fal out over the first few months. Hope that helps!

William Rassman, MD (retired) · Answer

People who have hair transplants shed the transplanted hair and the grafts within the first few months. People with shock loss loose their native hair that remains not the transplanted hair.  The native hair is often the hair that is miniaturizing and will eventually be lost

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