Will having to get a head CT Scan (radiation) impact my FUE hair transplant conducted approximately 2 months ago?

Question

Will the CT scan cause hair loss or prevent the recipient site from growing?

Jae Pak, MD · Answer

Normal medical diagnostic radiation, such as a CT scan, will not harm your hair follicles or grafts.

Craig L. Ziering, DO · Answer

A diagnostic CT scan will not affect native hairs or your transplanted grafts, so you have no need to be concerned. However, radiation treatment to eliminate cancerous tumors in the head can damage hair follicles. But fortunately, this is not the situation that you are describing.

Karl Hekimian, MD · Answer

Short of trauma to the scalp during the procedure during the first postoperative week, a CT scan will not damage your follicles.  At two months postop this should not be an issue.

Sean Behnam, MD · Answer

Nope. At this point your transplanted hairs are equivalent to normal hair. Anything that wouldn't affect normal hair shouldn't affect your transplanted hair.

William Rassman, MD (retired) · Answer

A Cat Scan of the head will not impact your hair grafts or the wound healing in any way. Don't worry about it as you are now normal

Will having to get a head CT Scan (radiation) impact my FUE hair transplant conducted approximately 2 months ago?

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