Question:
I had a transplant about five and a half weeks ago. The transplanted hairs should have shed but they haven’t yet. Does this mean they won’t and is this normal?
Answer:
In most cases, shedding or shock loss would occur from one to four weeks after the hair transplantation procedure. Most commonly, 95% to 98% of the transplanted hairs will shed in the first one to four weeks. However, on occasion, we do run into a patient who experiences very little shock loss and the transplanted hairs just start growing from the day of the procedure. This is very unusual and it is really more of a bonus when this happens because the patient will not have to experience the three to four month wait before the new hairs start to grow again. I would say this is not certainly normal but does occur and is more of a lucky break for the patient than anything else./p>