How noticeable or obvious would the recipient area of a hair transplant look if shaved in future?

You typically can cut your hair very short and still look great.However it really depends on how thick your hair is to begin with.The most obvious area to watch out for is in the back of the head where the harvesting takes place.With FUE you will have little tiny micro dots or a linear line with FUG.Typically neither are noticeable but if you shave your head it will be exposed.Hope this helps.

A good hair transplant will not be noticeable and you will care about your looks when you are 50 years old.All hair transplant surgery will leave some form of a scar in the donor area. FUE leaves thousands of dot scars. Strip surgery leaves a line scar.

I agree that looking at the future ramifications of any procedure is prudent, but looking at the intervening time periods is also crucial. Yes, you will have some scars, but, as a rule, FUE leaves as little scarring as possible with today's technology. In my opinion, you should be able to wear your hair any way u like now or later. It does depend on how YOU heal, on who does your procedure, on the technique used for hair transplant, and whether you will require more than one procedure to obtain your desired result. Best. 

Great question! Important question!The first thing to state outright is that FUE is not a scarless procedure (despite the advertising). FUE produces tiny circular scars.The second thing to state is that not every person heals the same. Some people heal incredibly well and others heal with bigger scars. While some of this is influenced by size of the punch used and the post op care given, alot is determined by one's genetics. Some people "scar" worse than others.Most of my patients can wear their hair very, very short following FUE. But everyone has different healing and some scars are more noticeable than others. Scarring is more noticeable with bigger sized sessions. Most patients could wear a number 1 with no problem - but not all. Massive FUE sessions, especially if overharvested or the patient is a poor healer, could look noticeable with a zero.Anyone wishing to wear a "zero" in the future should speak to their surgeon. (& hope for best but prepare for what to do if not so). For patients with visible donor area harvesting, scalp micropigmentation (SMP) can be considered.

Try a shaved head look before you do any transplant if you think that may be your future. If you like the look, don't get a hair transplant. Or, when you are older opt to keep your fringe and get any type of hair transplant now if it is the opinion of your surgeon and yourself it will improve your present appearance. 

if your hair transplant was done nicely and naturally, it should look very natural if you decide to shave your hair in the future. 

All surgeries produce scars. A strip surgery produces a linear scar and I have had 3 of them all in the same place and would defy anyone to find it, but if I were to shave my head, a small line could be seen. I will never shave my head. We are the pioneers of FUE, have been doing them for 19 years now, longer than any medical group in the world. When we published the first article in a medical journal on the FUE, we titled it 'Minimally Invasive Surgery' but never promoted it as scar-less as other doctors do. IF you shave the scalp of an F'UE patient, you will see 'punctate' scars, which reflect small dots about 1mm in size that are whitish in color. These scars have produced problems of detectability in everyone with FUE. We have built a practice of treating this condition with Scalp Micropigmentation which is the only successful way to hide these punctate scars. see web reference below