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In-grown hairs
Summary
- What to expect
- Your newly grafted hairs are fully incorporated into your body. There are a few things listed below that we still don’t want to do, but largely you are free from restrictions.
- Ingrown hairs can start appearing. The tracts of your hairs can be lost during a hair transplant. This can result in an ingrown hair at either the collection or placement areas. In grown can appear in several forms
- Hair curled under the surface of the skin
- A white head or pimple
- A white head with surrounding area of redness due to inflammation
- A cyst, appearing as a raised bump
- Inflamed cyst, appearing as a red, tender, painful and/or tense area.
- If you have area that is red, tender, painful or tense, please contact us. Otherwise try to leave it aloneĀ
- What you can do
- Start/restart hair maintenance therapies
- Use combs and brushes
- Dandruff or OTC medicated shampoo
- Topical haircare products
- Intense exercise (heavy straining)
- Go out in the sunlight, preferably while wearing sunscreen
- What you need to wait 6 weeks to do
- Curling or straightening hair
- Coloring hair
- Shaving the newly grafted area
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