Should hair grow immediately after hair transplant?

Question

Should the transplanted grafts grow immediately after HT until shock hair loss occurs? What does it mean if some of transplanted hair did not grow and disappeared during shock loss?

Christine M. Shaver, MD · Answer

Transplanted hair often does not grow until 3-6 months post-hair transplant. Sometimes, patients think their transplanted short hairs are growing right after surgery, but they actually only appear to grow while your body begins to extrude them/push them out. All the transplanted hairs should initially shed. In addition, shock loss/natural hair can shed in the first 1-3 months (the "ugly duckling" phase), so often patients look worse before they begin to see their transplant results.

Caner Kacmaz, MD · Answer

Noticeable growth and thickening of the transplanted hair begins after 6 months. This period is also called the hair busting stage. At this time your new hair grows normally at the same rate as your old hair, about 1-2 cm per month.

Jon E. Mendelsohn, MD, FACS · Answer

Typically the new grafts will shed and go dormant around 45 days and stay in that resting phase for 3 to 4 months. After that, you will see new regrowth slowly all the way to 14 months. 
We have noticed that patients that use our LLHT systems will shorten that resting phase considerably.
Thank you for the question.
Jon

Matt Tahsini, MD · Answer

Hello, and thank you for your question. Waiting to see results after a hair transplant requires some patience. You can expect to see some results after 4-5 months but don't expect to see final results for 12-18 months. Best of luck to you.

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