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In FUE hair transplantation,"What is the maximum time for a hair transplanted pore to push out it's baby hair from the skin?"

Vinay KSep 16, 2015
Hi-I underwent "FUE-Hair Transplant" of 1200 follicles 3 months ago. All the transplanted hair was grown initially & fallen out all by 6th week. Currently at 3 months, 30% transplanted area showing baby hairs from their pores. Remaining 70% area didn't push out any hairs from their pores & looks like "bald skin" as their are no hairs popped out. Today my surgeon said "70% area has hair roots below the skin & not visible now. but will take another month to come out to visible". Is it normal case?

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Your doctor explained this will happen, right?  Transplanted hairs usually falls out in days to weeks and after about a month you may look like (or worse) than prior to surgery.  It takes months to start seeing new hairs grow out.

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