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You cannot tell if it is over harvested or "normal" with photos.There are volumes of unknown issues from your line of questioning. If 2000 grafts were harvested to address a very small area of your scalp, then it would be considered "over harvest". If 2000 grafts were harvested to address a large area of your scalp, it may be "under harvest". If 2000 grafts were planned and you actually have 3000 "holes" on your head because there were many transected and ampuated (not usable) grafts, then it would be "over harvest".
Below are critical questions that you need answers to before moving forward with an FUE clinic. 1) Is your Doctor the person doing the FUE harvesting or is a Physician Assistant or technician doing the harvesting? 2) How long has your surgeon been doing FUE and FUE harvesting? 3) How many FUE cases does your doctor perform monthly? 4) If your doctor does both Strip and FUE, Does your doctor perform more strip cases then FUE cases monthly?
Seems normal. The donor site might still be red that's why it stands out from the rest of your hair. Give it time to see how it looks once the area has completely healed.
Dear 71315, It's hard to get a sense of what area of the scalp the follicles were taken from exactly and the measurements.... and you won't really get a sense of over harvesting per se until 4-5 months down the road when all the healing has taken place more fully. But given your density in these photos and hair type, you have many thousands of donor hairs. This should not represent over harvesting with 2000 or so hairs. To calculate, multiple length x width of the area harvested. Then multiply by 15 or 20. That gives a very rough idea of how many follicular units can easily be taken from an area. In fact, that's a low ball estimate. It's likely you're well in that range. But if unsure, speak to your surgeon. He or she can give you a sense of the math. Hopefully, this offers some helpful information to you.
donor depletion is one of the results of doing excessive donor hair removal using FUE Technique. This should have been discussed with you before the procedure.
If you let your hair grow a bit, it probably will look fine. You are only 19 days after the surgery so wait out another months with reasonable length hair and then let it go long and see what it looks like.
It is likely that you will see some improvement over the next 4-6 months, but it probably won't be dramatic. If you had 3400 follicles transplanted, that would only be around 1500-1600 follicular units, which would not be enough to provide a lot of density in someone with your amount...
Seems like the normal process of hair growth where you experience in-grown hair. Your surgeon should have explained this to you. To be safe, you need to check with a dermatologist to confirm that its not an infection.
3 weeks post op, its fairly safe to shave. Transplanted hair does not grow immediately; first it goes into resting phase then starts growing 2-3 months post op. You should not worry if it doesnt grow back now.