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

Avi12355
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

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