What are the odds of going bald after a hair transplant? (Photo)

If you don't plan your surgery right and don't have the right master plan your chances of looking worse after surgery is likely high.

Thank you for the question.  A small number of patients may experience shock loss that will recover with time.  You will continue to lose hair and so there will be reduction of density as you continue to lose the hair that you would have lost.  

Great question! 
The hair from the back of the head maintains its characteristics so should last for decades. Think of those older men with "chrome domes" but with all that hair in back that they comb over!  
Now you need your doctor to monitor things like DHT, other hormones and nutrients to maintain things, but as a whole, it will last!

This could refer to one of two issues.  First, sometimes after surgery you have a temporary thinning of your native hair.  This is called telogen effluvium, or more colloquially shock loss.  This is relatively uncommon and resolves on its own.
Also, after a transplant procedure it is still possible to keep losing native (non-transplanted) hair- having had a transplant has no effect on this.  Whether or not you lose hair depends primarily on your genetics.  Discuss with your surgeon options for maintenance such as finasteride (Propecia), laser and minoxidil (Rogaine) as well as further use of PRP to prevent further loss.

Thank you for sharing the question.

A hair transplant is a permanent process, in that the hair is taken in the donor-area which is of permanent growth zone; which means that this hair will not fall off ever. And the reason for that is this is the area that is relatively testosterone resistant. A hair taken from this region when transplanted in the recipient zone is not going to fall off since it doesn’t get affected by testosterone. So, please feel safe in going ahead with the transplant and you will be assured of a result which is not only perfect but also will last you a life-time.

Regards, Dr. Amit Gupta

If you are too young and your balding pattern is just becoming evident, then the risk of a hair transplant in accelerating the balding is high. For that reason, I ask my patients to wait until they are 26 so that I can measure their hair loss and predict their hair loss pattern with an instrument called HAIRCHECK

This is a complicated question. As I see it, the answer depends on your age, your family history, the extent of your present hair loss, what steps you plan to take to prevent (as much as possible) ongoing hair loss, and what you mean by “going bald”. I'd also be interested to know what you mean by “turned out just fine”—i.e., how old was that someone you know personally at the time of his transplant, and how old is he now? 34? 43? 56?
The basic principle to understand is that a hair transplant doesn’t “nip it in the bud” as far as future hair loss is concerned—it simply replaces some of the hair that has already been lost with permanent, DHT-resistant follicles. So you won't lose your transplanted hair. But unless you are proactive (and the jury is still out with regard to PRP), you will lose just as much of your non-transplanted hair in the years after a hair transplant as you would if you hadn’t had one. The question is, what is your genetic destiny, how effective will preventive measures be, and how abundant is your donor area? You might very well be one of those younger men who continues losing very little hair and gets a lot of mileage out of a single procedure; you might need further surgery as you age; or you could be a young man who is genetically programmed to end up like Dr. Phil or Steve Harvey, in which case your demand will exceed your supply—no amount of surgery will be able to cover the entire bald area because the total number of follicles needed has exceeded the supply of donor follicles. The younger you are, the cloudier the crystal ball is. This is why most experienced hair transplant surgeons advise against transplanting young (< 25 years old) men in the early stages of hair loss.
Thanks for your excellent and important question. I don’t know if my answer was helpful, but I gave it my best shot.

Dr. B