Thu 25 Jun 2009
This hair loss question was answered by Dr. Robert True of New York, NY who is a member of the Coalition of Independent Hair Restoration Physicians. His professional answer is below.
I just had surgical hair restoration and my hair is starting to fall out. Is this normal?
For almost all hair transplant patients, the transplanted hair falls out gradually from two to four weeks following transplantation.
During this short period of time, some of the hairs actually grow before falling out. Sometimes the hairs come out when the crusts/scabs fall off the skin (attached to the crust) or they may remain to fall out later. Rarely, some of the hairs may not fall out and will continue to grow without interruption. (This is not a problem – you can cut the hairs if you want)
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Bill - aka Falceros
Associate Publisher/Editor
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Coalition member 
As with any surgical specialty, complications in hair restoration surgery occur as an unfortunate consequence of performing the operation. Fortunately, hair transplant surgery has the lowest complication rate of all cosmetic surgical procedures performed in the author’s cosmetic surgical practice over the past 18 years. The scope of this article limits the detailed description and full analysis of all possible complications in this field. Problems such as infection, bleeding, poor hair growth, and cysts occur to varying degrees, and these untoward events and others have been listed and discussed in numerous reports and book chapters.1,2 The focus of this article is to provide a useful review of the most common problems in hair restoration surgery that the practitioner is likely to see in practice and outline a practical approach to managing these unfortunate cosmetic deformities. Other reports have outlined options for management of the unnatural-appearing hair transplant, and the current article represents the author’s refinement of earlier published articles on the same topic.
Let’s face it. Hair loss can be devastating to all men, let alone younger ones still out on the prowl experiencing girls and life for the first time. Though at first, it’s easy to deny the first signs of thinning hair and balding, sooner or later, you’ll have to deal with the reality that you are going bald.