I recently had a hair transplant and flew home the following day, before I flew home I was given a fedora style hat. With the wait in the airport + the flight I had the hat on for 7 hours.i had the hat rested very lightly on my head it may have slightly rested on some of the transplanted area which could not be avoided but very lightly! I am wondering would this affect the hair at all or cause it to fall out just how sensitive is this area or am I just completely overthinking a non issue?
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January 17, 2016
Answer: It is probably too late to think about if wearing a hat could have affected your surgery. It probably wouldn't but if you're
Jae Pak, MDHair Restoration Surgeon, Board Certified in Emergency Medicine
That looks more like 750 grafts to me. Highly doubt there is 2,000 grafts there. Patients get so worried about grafts numbers and it seems these days some doctors are promising high graft numbers and not delivering. I frequently see patients in my office that tell me they had a 2500 graft F...
There is no such thing as 'MHI' in the hair transplant literature.There is FUE.It is a known marketing strategy to make up names for an existing technique to make a difference in the market.The goal is to make the patients ask clinics 'Do you perform MHI?'.This was the patient believes this is a...
I have seen FUE donor areas take as long as 6 months to recover, but not 8 months as yet. The problem with FUE is that it causes a lot of damage to the surrounding vasculature, especially megasession FUE transplants. This is because all those little incisions add up to a big incision. The...
