After your hair transplant

Your grafts are permanent. The rest isn’t.

Transplanted hair comes from the back of your head and keeps growing for life. The native hair around it doesn’t get that protection: it keeps thinning at the rate it always was.

That’s why most surgeons tell patients to use minoxidil for at least a year after surgery, and many stay on it for good.

12+ monthsof minoxidil is what most surgeons recommend after surgery
2–4 weeksafter surgery is when many surgeons say to restart. Follow your clinic
Twice a daymorning and evening, about a minute each time

Your first year after surgery.

Every clinic’s protocol is a little different, so their instructions come first. This is the usual shape of recovery.

Weeks 1–2

Healing

Scabs form and fall away. Follow your clinic’s washing routine exactly and keep products off the grafts.

Weeks 2–4

Restarting minoxidil

Many surgeons give the go-ahead around now, once the grafts are secure. Ask yours first.

Weeks 2–8

Shock loss

Most transplanted hairs shed. The roots stay in place and regrow. Some native hair can shed too.

Months 3–4

The awkward phase

New hair comes through thin and uneven. It looks worse before it looks better.

Months 6–8

Real change

Most patients see a clear difference, and the new hair starts to thicken.

Months 12–18

The final result

The grafts are mature. Keep protecting the native hair around them.

Protect the hair around your grafts.

Foam is gentler on a healing scalp because it has no propylene glycol, which is why many surgeons prefer it after surgery.

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Questions

Foam has no propylene glycol, which is the ingredient most likely to irritate, so many surgeons prefer it for a healing scalp. Once you’ve fully healed, either works.

Ask your surgeon. Many say two to four weeks after surgery, once the grafts are secure and the scabs have gone.

The grafts survive on their own. Minoxidil’s job is protecting the native hair around them, so the transplant doesn’t end up as an island.

At least twelve months. Many people keep going, because stopping lets the native hair carry on thinning.

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