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I’m 11 days post-op after a hair transplant surgery. Today I noticed a number of transplanted hairs coming off with the scabs. Along the hairline, a largish scab came off with around 10 - 15 transplanted hairs caught in the middle. This has really freaked me out as I’m thinking maybe the hair graft wasn’t [...]

I am thinking of having a 2nd hair transplant procedure. I was very happy with the first one and I recommend the procedure to anyone. I am 32 at the moment. If in the distant future I decide to shave off all my hair will the scars in the donor area be too visible to [...]

I’m interested in hair transplant repair information. I’ve had over 10 hair transplant procedures over a 15 year period from 1985 to 2000. During that period, I suffered a major head trauma. Part of the trauma was the destruction of part of the transplanted area. I tried to repair the damage in 2000 with little [...]

I have seen read some negative items on Bosley and wonder if anyone has had sucessful experiences with them. Also- I recently saw a hair transplant patient whose hairline was extremely red three weeks post- procedure- is this unusual? I encourage potential hair transplant patients to research any hair restoration surgeon or clinic they are considering. [...]

Normally, the donor area contains hairs of very uniform diameter (called terminal hairs). In androgenetic hair loss, the action of DHT causes some of these terminal hairs to decrease in diameter and in length until they eventually disappear (a process referred to as “miniaturization”). These changes are seen initially as thinning and eventually lead to [...]