How Soon After a Hair Transplant Can You Return To Work?

How soon can I return to work after a [tag]hair transplant[/tag]?  

This [tag]hair loss[/tag] question was answered by  Dr. William Lindsey  of Reston, VA who is one of our recommended hair restoration physicians.

It depends on many things including  whether you are doing a small or large [tag]hair transplant megasession[/tag], how long is surrounding hair (can you comb it over [tag]balding[/tag]  recipient area), does your doctor shave recipient area (like we do), and what do you have to look like when you go back to work.

We do a fair amount of “frontal triangle” work and although I shave the recipient area, if we can get the [tag]hair restoration[/tag] patient to grow the forelock a bit, then they can kind of “bushy it up” and have it cover the transplanted area after just a few days. Thus, we do a lot of Friday or Saturday surgeries and people like this tell me they go back on Wednesday, but that is a guideline–not a guarantee. It is however a good argument for doing a smaller case (1500-1800 grafts) in the triangles if there is a pretty good forelock, rather than doing a 2500+ [tag]follicular unit graft[/tag] session and getting a change that would be hard to conceal upon returning to work in a few days.

So we do a lot of frontal triangles, let it grow for a year or more, and then if there is [tag]thinning hair[/tag] in the forelock, that can be done and will be hidden behind the previous work so guys can often pull off the entire [tag]hair transplant procedure[/tag] without too many people knowing.

William Lindsey, MD

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Bill
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