After transplant, can I use hair fiber to cover the transplanted area?

You can use hair fibers few days after surgery.  It is always a good idea to follow up with your doctor for a recheck if you have concerns.

Yes, these are very popular and very good. Just do not use them on the first few days.  They can help hide the redness very well until this resolved on its own.  It can also make up for the shedding and shock you sometimes see from the transplant. 

Hair fibers can be safely used starting day 4-5 after the transplant. Meticulous daily washing off of the fibers is critical. 

You should wait 6 weeks before using fiber. fibers can get under any remaning crust on your scalp. 

Yes you can use Toppik on the transplanted area. However it has to be after a few weeks post op to make sure you have healed properly first.

Dear Falak1,

In general, immediately following hair transplantation, the
recipient site, or the place where the hair transplant follicular units are
placed should be cleansed on a daily basis with gentle shampoo and care taken
not to traumatize the hair grafts from achieving their blood supply. The use of camouflage products to hide the
transplant area should be used with great caution in the first two weeks and I
generally recommend patients wait till the scabs have come off and the
follicular unit hair grafts have received a blood supply and some stable
collagen production to close the slits in which they were placed. At that time, specifically two weeks, hair
camouflage techniques such as fibres can be deployed.

The posterior aspect of the donor site in the occiput, hair
camouflage techniques can be used within one week to minimize the areas where
the hair was shaved in order to harvest the follicular units at the FUE donor
sites.

I have been performing exclusively follicular unit extraction
and transplantation using NeoGraft® and ARTAS® for the past five to seven
years. I have had great success with the
conservative approach to a postoperative management of the recipient site,
ensuring stable survival of the grafts prior to using camouflage
techniques. It does mean that most
patients need to take seven to ten days off work prior to returning.

I hope this information has been of some assistance and best
of luck.

Sincerely,

R. Stephen Mulholland, MD

Certified Plastic Surgeon

Yorkville, Toronto