Today (day 8) I started working the scabs off with baby shampoo, doing gentle circular movements with my fingertips. I started picking some loose scabs and blood scabs. A large number of scabs came off with no effort (i didn't need to pull them). Some of them came with hair on, but I suppose this is normal. That said, a couple of them came with that little black ball in the end. Is that a lost graft? I mean, they came off with almost no effort. Were they already lost?
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I don't like the idea of anyone removing grafts that have scabs on them because we have published a paper in a formal medical journal, that when a person pulls off a scab (crust) from a recipient area in less than 12 days, the risk of losing the graft is very high. See the medical paper we wrote...
I am not sure why you don't have enough donor hair. I will assume that you had already exhausted your donor area and now want more hair or more fullness. This can be achieved with beard hair (may have a different characteristic than your scalp hair), body hair (a poor choice as it is less ...
