Week 3

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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 alone 

• 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