What to Expect After Hair Transplantation

In hair transplants, recovery time is as important as before and during the procedure. As people go under the knife to have their hair restored, patients should be properly oriented about realistic expectations after the operation. Here are some typical changes that may occur during the recovery period.

A day after the cosmetic process, there should be no more blood around the grafts where hair was transplanted. Patients may experience a tight sensation in the scalp area, although unbearable pain isn't normal. Numbness may also occur within the next 24 hours after surgery.

After two to three days, scabs that generally form in the scalp should be gone. There may be some swelling on the forehead. Between the first and eighth weeks, any type of puffiness or redness should be gone and patients would be required to visit their surgeons for post-operative consultation. There will be hair growth around this time; the hair that sprouts from the area would have the texture of a four-day-old beard.

In 2 to 12 months, some hair may shed and grow in the transplanted scalp portion. The hair may thicken by the next month. During this period, hair transplant patients will be evaluated for a follow-up procedure if the first transplant didn't yield results as expected.