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Is it possible to have SMP on top of the recipient area after an FUE transplant to add more density?

loverug0Sep 6, 2018
I obviously don’t want to interfere with the growing (hopefully it’s growing anyway!) of the new hairs but I’d really like to mask my donor site and crown. I’m two months post FUE

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