There are a lot of factors that affects the amount of growth a patient will have after hair transplant surgery. You are still very early in the course of your hair growth after the transplant. In my practice, even with a lot of advanced methods and hair regenerative technology that we employ, we still say that the full result is approximately one year after the transplant. When hair is grafted, whether it’s a follicular unit extraction or strip method, it’s taking the whole hair including its root and placing it in another place - when this happens, shock loss occurs. Shock loss can be due to the impact of the swelling, trauma of actual surgery resulting in shedding of the part of the hair. The shedding of the hair can apply to both the grafts and the existing hair adjacent to them, and can result in an area looking barer than it was prior to the transplant. Fortunately, the root of the hair or the dermal papillae and the complex around is intact. In our practice, one of our standard approaches of helping minimize that transition phase has been the use of Hair Regeneration technology which we developed. Hair Regeneration is the combination of the wound healing material extracellular matrix and platelet-rich plasma drawn from your own blood. With this advanced regeneration technology, the hair grafts tend to heal a little bit faster and the growth starts a little bit sooner. Not only are we protecting the existing hairs from the shock loss (telogen effluvium), but the hair also becomes thicker. Hair transplant surgery is ultimately limited by the donor area in terms of the number of hairs you can place. It is also limited to the area that is being treated in terms of how fast the existing hair is going to thin out. So when we look at somebody for a hair transplant, we take all these into consideration and use Hair Regeneration to address these. As far as your question is concerned, I think it’s very important that you speak with your doctor or speak with the staff at your doctor’s office. In our practice, we see our patients very frequently. Understanding that even though full hair growth will not occur to its fullest extend until about a year, it’s important that we see our patients every 3 months minimum and the door is very much open for them to come in within that time frame. We will also do microscopic examinations and see how things are progressing so that the patient understands that this is a natural process. Ultimately, the success of the surgery will be determined after approximately one year. For now, I think it’s fine that you are using the minoxidil. There are some evidences that minoxidil topical will help synchronize the hair growth cycles. But you should understanding that throughout the process, there are hairs that will shed and hairs that will start to grow in until you reach that equilibrium somewhere at the one year point. I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck, and thank you for your question.