Did I Ruin My hair Transplant by rubbing my scabs off?

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First of all , Thanks to Doctors for Providing me Answer for my Previous Question , I had Hair Transplant of 3000 grafts 24 days back . I had lot of scabs on my Head even after 20 days post Transplant , so I Removed the Scabs by rubbing them with my fingers a lot of scabs came out along with lots of hairs . 80 percent of my Transplanted hairs fell after that. Did i Ruined my Hair Transplant and My Grafts by Picking up the scabs by Myself...Please help

Jae Pak, MD · Answer

Rubbing your scabs after 3 weeks should not "ruin" your transplants.  However, it is important to follow your doctor's post op care instructions.

Ilhan Serdaroglu, MD · Answer

All scabs should be cleaned with pressured (not gentle) massage to transplant area after 2 weeks.Dont forget that you may wash your head with normal pressure after 20 days , you will not harm grfats .

Sean Behnam, MD · Answer

It is unlikely you caused any damage to your grafts at this point. Its impossible to say for certain but by now they should be pretty well secured and it would some serious effort to damage them. This is especially true if you rubbed the scabs off and didn't pick at them. Transplanted hair is usually falling out around this time so it would be expected for them to be falling out with the scabs.

Karl Hekimian, MD · Answer

If you just rubbed the scabs off it is very unlikely that you damaged or disrupted the grafts.  The hairs that came out were probably old hairs trapped by the scab; new hairs should start growing in a couple of months.

Baubac Hayatdavoudi, MD · Answer

At 20 days post op, the grafts would have been fully secure in your scalp. So removing the scabs would not disrupt them.

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