Post 5 days are the transplanted grafts secure? how do we know if the grafts have come out? is it identified by bleeding?

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Jae Pak, MD · Answer

Transplanted grafts are secure few days after surgery.  A week or so is what most would agree upon. You'll probably know if the grafts came out if you see dried up tissue the size of a rice grain with hair in the middle.

Anil R. Shah, MD · Answer

Hello, All techniques, including handheld FUE, strip technique, and ARTAS will have some transections or grafts which were damaged during harvest.  Our numbers (which we believe translates to most other hair centers) were around 35-50% transection rate with handheld FUE, 15% transection rate with strip surgery (due to location of bevel of knife along the whole periphery of strip), and less than 5% transection rate with ARTAS.  In my own transplant procedure, I had 1000 grafts harvested and 1 transection with harvest!!!  If a patient paid for 1000 grafts, does this mean they paid for 1000 harvest attempts or 1000 legitimate grafts.Best, Dr. Anil Shah

Sanusi Umar, MD · Answer

It takes about 7-9 days for the recipient wounds to fully close over each of the inserted grafts. After this point, the follicles are permanently embedded beneath the skin’s surface. Before the wounds are completely closed, it is quite possible for the follicles to become dislodged. Bleeding is certainly a possibility, but this may not necessarily occur.Slight shedding can be expected after a procedure. And this will become more noticeable within the following three to four months. This is because transplanting the hairs to new locations will create a type of stress that causes the follicles to enter a telogen resting phase. The hair will fall out to make room for new growth.If you have concerns about losing grafts that don’t seem like natural shedding, speak to your doctor.

Levent Acar, MD · Answer

It takes around 7 days to secure your grafts. To know if your grafts comes out you will see some bleeding scabs

Rashid M. Rashid, PhD, MD · Answer

It varies by the size of grafts, the procedure, and your healing time. We often tell people 10 days is the safest mark of time.

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