For patients planning to go for hair transplant surgery, your surgeon
or health care professional will guide you through the preoperative
measures which you will need to take care of before going through
the surgery. These preoperative measures and precautions include
halting anti-coagulating medications, examining blood clotting and
bleeding time, avoiding tobacco and alcohol around one to two weeks
prior to surgery, use of antibiotics to make sure the procedure goes
well, stopping physical exercises as well as following a normal
daily routine without late night-outs and short sleeping hours.
These pre-op precautions are necessary to follow as they help to
make the hair transplant procedure successful as well as
satisfactory. Following them will also ensure that you do not
develop any post-op complications.After the surgical procedure,
patients are often worried about how to take care of the area which
has been treated and also wonder how long it will take to get the
results they wanted. Patients are given a pain relieving medication
for the first one or two days. In the first week, the patient
usually experiences mild swelling on the forehead area. Swelling
normally begins on the second or third day and completely recedes by
day six. Very small blood clots also develop at the incision sites
which flake away in the first week. After the seventh day, the
treated area remains pinkish for the next few weeks. The surgeon may
also advise an anti-swelling medication or recommend you to sleep
with your head in an elevated position for the first week to reduce
swelling.
After the surgical hair restoration procedure, it is very
important to regularly wash the hair. Shampooing as recommended by
the surgeon removes any dirt, blood and oil which may cause scabs or
infections of the skin and scalp. Maintaining proper hygiene is also
important as it prevents infections and other skin problems from
arising on the treated area.
During the first month, the transplanted hair goes in a dormant
state, and they begin to shed. This temporary shedding is caused due
to the intense procedure the hair had to go through and is known as
anagen effluvium. This is completely expected and patients should
not panic if they see the new hair shedding after the surgery. The
transplanted hair returns back around 3 to 6 months after surgery,
when patients start to see the initial results. For some patients,
the newly growing hair may get trapped under the skin before coming
out to cause an acne-prone look. This is also natural and temporary
and shows a positive sign for hair growth.
Transplanted hairs initially emerge as fine hair, which gain
length and thickness as they continue to grow. Five to six months
after the surgery, patients can see considerable new growth of hair,
most of it measuring two to three inches in length, and see an
impressive difference between months eight to ten. The full effect
of hair transplantation surgery is visible after the first year of
surgery, when the new hair is fully grown, thick and strong. Hair
takes time and grows less than an inch every month, which is why it
is important to wait a whole year to see the final results of hair
transplant surgery. Hair density will also be better than what it
was at the time of surgery.
Successful hair transplant
in Pakistan procedures are so natural, that they cannot be
identified by professional hair stylists as being natural or
transplanted hair. Once a whole year has passed after the surgery,
hair will continue to grow as normal hair. They can be styled, cut,
trimmed in any manner and no special care or treatment is required
to maintain them. All standard hair products can be used by the
patient and treat the transplanted hair as if they were natural.
