Why Hair Transplant Repair Is Often Staged: Sequencing Graft Removal, Redesign and Regrafting

He keeps a baseball cap on the hook by the door, and he has not left the house without it in four years. The transplant he had in his late twenties gave him a hairline that sat too low and too straight, built from clusters of hair that look, up close, like the bristles of a toothbrush. What he wants now is not more hair. He wants the old work undone, and he wants to know why the surgeon he consulted talked about three appointments spread over more than a year instead of one long day.

That conversation is the heart of a staged hair transplant repair plan. Repair is not a second transplant laid over a first. It is closer to renovating a house that was built on the wrong footprint: you take down what is in the wrong place, you let the dust settle, you redraw the plan, and only then do you build. Each step waits on the one before it.

This explainer walks through why that order exists, what happens at each stage, and which questions are worth asking before anyone picks up an instrument.

What is a staged hair transplant repair plan, and why does sequencing matter?

A hair transplant moves hair follicles, the tiny organs in the skin that grow each hair, from a donor area, usually the back and sides of the scalp, to a thinning or bald area. Repair is the work of correcting an earlier transplant that left visible problems: grafts placed too far forward, angled against the natural direction of growth, clustered in large clumps, or scattered across an area that later thinned around them.

A staged hair transplant repair plan spreads that correction across two or more sessions in a deliberate order. Grafts that cannot be made to look natural are removed first. The scalp heals and the hair that remains, including any grafts that were re-implanted rather than discarded, is given time to grow so the true picture can be judged. The hairline is then redrawn on that settled result. New grafts go in last.

Sequencing matters because every step alters the information available for the next one. A surgeon who redesigns a hairline while unwanted grafts are still in place is guessing how the frame will look once they are gone. A surgeon who adds new hair before the removed grafts have regrown, if they were recycled, cannot tell how much donor hair is actually still needed. MedlinePlus notes that even in a first transplant several sessions may be required to achieve the intended density, and that the team judges each session against what has grown from the last. In repair, where the donor area is often already depleted and the margin for error smaller, that principle becomes the whole strategy rather than an afterthought.

None of this means staging is universal. Some corrections, a single stray graft or a small angle problem, are handled in one visit. The decision belongs to the treating team, who weigh the specific problem against the specific scalp.

How hair transplant repair actually works: the three moving parts

Strip away the vocabulary and repair has three components, and they are not interchangeable.

Graft removal means taking out follicles that were placed where they should not be. Two broad techniques exist. Excision cuts out a small piece of skin containing the offending grafts and closes it with fine sutures. Follicular unit extraction, often shortened to FUE, uses a small circular punch to lift out individual follicular units, the natural bundles of one to four hairs in which scalp hair grows. Removed follicles can sometimes be trimmed and re-implanted elsewhere; sometimes they are too damaged and are discarded.

Redesign is a planning step rather than a surgical one. The team draws a new hairline and density map, deciding where hair should sit, at what angle, and how the front edge should soften from single hairs to denser groups. It accounts for how the person’s natural hair loss is likely to progress, because male- and female-pattern hair loss is a lifelong process rather than a finished event.

Regrafting is the familiar transplant step: harvesting follicles from the donor area, preparing them, and placing them into tiny incisions along the new design. Cleveland Clinic describes the transplanted hair typically shedding in the first weeks and regrowing over the following months, with the appearance continuing to change for up to a year.

Each part depends on the others. Removal creates small wounds that must heal before the skin around them can accept new grafts safely. Redesign is only accurate once removal has revealed the real canvas. Regrafting spends a donor resource that cannot be replenished, so it comes last, after the plan is certain. Understanding these three parts as separate tasks with separate timelines is the single most useful thing a patient can take into a consultation.

Why not fix everything in one session?

The instinct to want it done in a day is understandable. A single long procedure sounds efficient, and every month with a visible problem feels long. Three medical realities push the other way.

The first is blood supply. Every incision, whether to remove a graft or place one, disrupts the small vessels that feed the surrounding skin. Grafts survive on that supply. Crowding removal and dense new placement into the same area on the same day asks freshly wounded tissue to nourish new follicles it may not be able to support. Cleveland Clinic lists poor graft survival and scarring among the recognized risks of transplant surgery, and the risk rises when tissue is overworked.

The second is information. MedlinePlus explains that transplanted hair falls out within roughly two to three weeks and that new growth begins a few months later. Until that cycle completes, no one can see the true density of the recycled grafts or the true shape of the hairline once unwanted grafts are gone. A plan drawn on the operating day is drawn on incomplete evidence.

The third is the donor budget. The safe donor zone at the back and sides of the head contains a finite number of follicles that are genetically resistant to the hormone-driven shrinkage that causes pattern hair loss. Once harvested, they do not come back. In a repair patient that zone has already been drawn on, sometimes heavily. Spending more of it before knowing exactly how much the redesign will require is the kind of irreversible decision surgeons prefer to defer.

Staging, then, is not caution for its own sake. It converts three sources of uncertainty into three points at which the team can look, measure and adjust. A person who has already lived with one disappointing result has every reason to value that.

Which problems does a staged hair transplant repair plan usually address?

Not every unsatisfying transplant needs a multi-stage correction, and not every problem is fixed in the same order. The table below summarizes the patterns surgeons most often describe and where in a staged plan each one is typically handled. It is a general map, not a prescription for any individual scalp.

Problem	What it looks like	Usual first move	Why staging helps
Hairline placed too low or too flat	A straight, juvenile front edge that looks out of proportion with the face	Remove the lowest grafts	The true frame appears only after removal and healing
Large “plug” grafts	Clusters of many hairs with bare skin between, a corn-row texture	Excise or thin the clusters; recycle usable follicles	Recycled hair must regrow before density is judged
Wrong angle or direction	Hair standing upright or growing against neighbors	Remove, or camouflage with correctly angled grafts in front	Deciding between removal and camouflage needs a settled scalp
Visible donor scarring	A wide linear scar or moth-eaten patches at the back	Assess scar type; consider grafting into the scar itself	Scar tissue has poor blood supply and accepts grafts slowly
Thinning around old grafts	Isolated tufts left as natural hair recedes	Redesign for the current and future pattern	Progression must be judged before committing donor hair
Depleted donor area	Too little safe donor hair left for the desired coverage	Reassess goals; discuss alternative donor sources or a lower-density design	Prevents further overharvesting

Two of these deserve emphasis. Scarring behaves differently from normal scalp: it is firmer, less vascular and slower to heal, which is why grafting into a scar often happens in a session of its own with modest numbers. And a depleted donor area changes the entire conversation, because it may mean that the honest goal is a natural-looking lighter result rather than the fuller head of hair someone first hoped for.

Who is usually offered staged repair, and who is asked to wait

Surgeons generally consider staged repair for people whose earlier result has stabilized, whose scalp has fully healed from the last procedure, and whose expectations match what the remaining donor supply can deliver. Age matters less than pattern: the question is whether the eventual extent of hair loss can be predicted well enough to design for it. Mayo Clinic describes pattern hair loss as gradual and progressive, and a repair plan has to assume it will continue.

Several groups are commonly asked to wait, or to pause and reconsider.

• People whose last procedure was recent. Cleveland Clinic notes that final appearance can take up to a year to emerge, and operating on a result that has not finished growing risks removing hair that would have looked acceptable.
• People with active scalp conditions such as uncontrolled inflammation, infection or a flare of a skin disease, which raise the risk of poor healing and graft failure.
• People with medical conditions that impair wound healing or increase bleeding, or who take medicines that do so, until the prescribing clinician and the surgeon have reviewed the plan together. Any change to those medicines is a decision for the prescriber, never for the patient alone.
• People whose hair loss is unstable or rapidly progressing, where the design target is still moving.
• People with very little remaining donor hair and a goal that would require more than is safely available.
• People with a form of hair loss that is not pattern-type, such as scarring alopecia, where the NHS advises that transplantation may be unsuitable until the underlying process is controlled.

Being asked to wait is not a refusal. It is often the first stage of the plan in everything but name: a period of observation in which the team gathers the evidence they need to design well. For someone who has already been through one operation that moved too fast, that patience is a form of protection.

Stage one: hair transplant graft removal, and what happens to the follicles

Graft removal is the step patients ask about most, partly because it sounds like undoing surgery, which in a sense it is. The purpose is to take out follicles that cannot be blended into a natural pattern no matter what is placed around them.

Under local anesthesia, the surgeon chooses between two approaches. For a cluster of large old grafts in a row along a hairline, excision of a narrow strip of skin containing them, closed with fine sutures, can be efficient and leaves a fine linear scar that later hair can cover. For scattered individual grafts, a small punch, the same instrument used in follicular unit extraction, lifts each unit out through a wound only a fraction of a millimeter or two across. MedlinePlus describes the general healing course after transplant surgery, with sutures, where used, typically removed around ten days later.

What happens to the removed follicles depends on their condition. A large old graft can sometimes be dissected under magnification into natural one- to three-hair units and re-implanted further back on the scalp in the same session, a practice often called recycling. This spares the donor area. Follicles crushed or dried during removal will not grow and are discarded. The surgeon cannot always know the proportion in advance, which is one more reason the regrafting count is decided later.

The scalp after removal shows small scabs at each site and, if excision was used, a sutured line. Swelling and tenderness are usual for a few days. Then comes the part that requires trust: the treated area will look emptier than before, and if follicles were recycled they will shed before they regrow. The plan has, quite literally, taken a step backward to move forward. Knowing that in advance turns an alarming mirror into an expected one.

Stage two: redesigning the hairline for the head you will have at sixty

Redesign happens between operations, usually in a clinic room with a marker, photographs and a long conversation. Its central question is not “where would hair look good today?” but “where will hair still look right in twenty or thirty years?”

The NHS notes that male-pattern baldness affects around half of all men by the age of fifty, and that it is progressive. A hairline that flatters a face at twenty-eight can look strange at fifty-five if the natural hair behind it has continued to recede, leaving a transplanted front edge stranded on an otherwise bare scalp. Many of the repair problems in the table above trace back to a first design that ignored this arithmetic.

A mature redesign therefore does several things. It sets the front edge higher than the patient’s youthful instinct, typically with a gentle curve rather than a straight line, and with softened temples. It uses single-hair follicular units at the very front, because a natural hairline is never a solid wall, and reserves multi-hair units for density behind. It maps the angle and direction of existing hair, including surviving old grafts, so that new hair lies with rather than against it. And it prioritizes: if donor supply is limited, the frame around the face usually comes first, because that is what other people see, and the crown is left for later or accepted as lighter.

Redesign also names the ceiling. A surgeon should be able to say plainly how much coverage the remaining donor hair can support and what it cannot. That may be a harder conversation than the surgery. Someone who arrives hoping for the density of their teenage years may leave with a plan for a natural, age-appropriate result and no more. The evidence on progression suggests that this is the honest target, and honesty at this stage is what keeps the third stage from becoming a fourth.

Stage three: regrafting and the donor budget behind every graft count

Regrafting is the stage most people picture when they hear “hair transplant.” In a repair plan it comes last, and it is governed by a single constraint: how much safe donor hair is left.

The safe donor zone is the band of scalp at the back and sides where follicles are largely resistant to the hormonal signal that shrinks follicles in pattern hair loss. It is not infinite, and it is not uniform. Harvest too densely and the donor area itself becomes visibly thin, a problem sometimes called overharvesting or a “moth-eaten” donor. Every repair patient has already spent part of this budget, and some have spent most of it.

This is why a question like “is a large graft number too many?” cannot be answered with a number. Whether a given count is safe depends on the density of hair in the donor zone, the size of that zone, how much was taken before, how the earlier harvest was distributed, and how much the person’s hair is expected to recede in future. A count that is reasonable for one scalp would strip another. Surgeons assess this by examining the donor area under magnification and, increasingly, by measuring density in defined patches. The count that emerges is a consequence of the redesign, not a starting point.

When scalp donor hair is short, some teams discuss follicles from the beard or, less commonly, body, as supplementary sources. These hairs differ in texture and growth cycle, and the evidence for them is mainly observational; they are used cautiously and usually away from the hairline.

Mayo Clinic notes that new growth after transplantation continues to appear over six to nine months, so the outcome of regrafting is judged patiently. Where the plan includes grafting into scar tissue, the team may place fewer follicles than the scar could theoretically hold and return once survival there is known.

How long between stages, and why waiting is part of the treatment

The interval between stages is where most of the frustration in a staged plan lives, and where most of its value is created.

The biology sets the floor. MedlinePlus describes transplanted and disturbed hair shedding within two to three weeks and new growth beginning a few months later. Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic both describe the visible result continuing to mature over six to twelve months. A surgeon who wants to judge how recycled grafts have taken, or how the hairline reads once unwanted grafts are gone, is therefore usually looking at an interval measured in many months rather than weeks. Precise timing is set by the team for each person and depends on how quickly the individual scalp heals and how much regrowth needs to be assessed.

What happens during the wait is not nothing. The team may photograph the scalp at intervals under standardized lighting to track density. If the person is using a medicine for pattern hair loss prescribed by their clinician, its effect on the surrounding native hair, which also takes months to show, becomes clearer, and the redesign can account for it. Scar tissue softens and its blood supply improves, which matters if it is to receive grafts. And the patient’s own view often shifts once the most conspicuous problem has been removed; some people find that after stage one the remaining issue is smaller than they feared, and the regrafting plan shrinks accordingly.

There is a practical point worth stating plainly. Staging only works if the same team, or a team with full access to the earlier records, oversees every step. A person who has one stage performed, then moves to another provider without photographs, graft counts and the design drawings, loses the very continuity that makes staging safer. Keeping those records is a patient’s responsibility as much as a surgeon’s.

What the days and weeks after each stage usually look like

Recovery from each stage follows a recognizable pattern, though the details differ between a removal session and a regrafting session. The following is a typical course drawn from MedlinePlus and Cleveland Clinic descriptions of transplant recovery; the treating team’s written instructions take precedence over any general account.

The first few days. The scalp is tender, sometimes numb in patches, and may be mildly swollen, occasionally with swelling drifting toward the forehead and around the eyes. Small scabs form at every graft or punch site. Most people are asked to keep the head elevated when sleeping, avoid touching or picking, and follow a specific washing routine. Pain is generally described as mild to moderate and managed with whatever the surgeon has advised.

The first two weeks. Scabs loosen and lift with gentle washing. Sutures from an excision, if used, are typically removed around ten days after surgery according to MedlinePlus. Most people return to desk-based work within days; strenuous exercise, swimming and anything that raises blood pressure or risks a blow to the head are usually deferred for longer, on the team’s advice.

Weeks two to four. Transplanted or recycled hairs shed. This is expected and is not graft failure; the follicle stays behind and rests. After a removal-only stage the area simply looks sparser and pinker than before.

Months two to four. New growth appears as fine, sometimes lighter hairs. The skin color evens out. Numbness usually resolves, though small patches can persist longer.

Months six to twelve. Hair thickens and the result approaches its settled appearance, per Cleveland Clinic. This is the window in which the team typically assesses whether the next stage is needed and what it should contain.

Between stages, ordinary life carries on. The cap by the door may come off sooner than expected once the most obvious problem has been removed, even before anything new has grown.

Where medicines and camouflage fit into a repair plan

Surgery moves hair; it does not stop the process that caused the loss. Because a repair design assumes further recession, the team may ask whether the person is taking, or wishes to discuss, a medicine for pattern hair loss with their prescribing clinician. Two classes are described in mainstream sources.

Five-alpha-reductase inhibitors, taken by mouth, lower the hormone that shrinks genetically susceptible follicles. Mayo Clinic notes that it can take months of use before any effect is visible and that benefit is lost if the medicine is stopped. It is prescribed for men; use in women is restricted. Topical minoxidil, applied to the scalp, is thought to prolong the growth phase of follicles; the NHS and Mayo Clinic describe it as taking several months to judge and, again, working only while it is used. Both have recognized side effects that the prescriber will discuss. Whether to start, continue or change either is a decision between the patient and that clinician; a surgeon’s interest is simply in knowing what the native hair is likely to do.

Camouflage sits alongside surgery rather than replacing it. Scalp micropigmentation, a form of cosmetic tattooing that places pigment dots to mimic shaved follicles, is sometimes used to soften a visible donor scar or the contrast between thin areas and skin. The evidence for it is observational and cosmetic rather than medical, and pigment can fade or shift color over years. Hair fibers and tinted sprays offer temporary cover. Systems and wigs remain an option the NHS lists for people who prefer not to have further surgery.

Some people, after stage one, decide that a lighter result plus camouflage meets their goal and that no regrafting is needed. That is a legitimate end to a staged plan, and a team that presents it as an option rather than a failure is behaving well.

What people often get wrong about fixing a bad hair transplant

“Repair is just a second transplant.” Adding hair around misplaced grafts rarely hides them. Density placed behind a too-low hairline makes the low line more prominent, not less. Most repairs begin with subtraction.

“Removed grafts are wasted.” Often the opposite. Large old grafts can be divided and re-implanted, recovering follicles that would otherwise cost donor hair. Not every follicle survives the process, which is why the count is confirmed later, but recycling is one of the quieter advantages of staging.

“Any graft number a clinic quotes is either safe or excessive.” There is no universal safe number. Donor density, scalp size, prior harvesting and expected future loss decide what a given scalp can give. A figure offered without a donor examination is a figure offered without the information needed to justify it.

“If the hair sheds after surgery, the procedure failed.” MedlinePlus and Cleveland Clinic both describe shedding in the first weeks as an expected part of the cycle. Growth follows months later.

“Once the result looks good, it stays that way.” Transplanted hair from the safe zone generally persists, but the native hair around it continues to follow its genetic program. Twenty years on, a design that ignored progression can look stranded. This is the single most common reason people seek repair, and the single best reason to design conservatively.

“A celebrity’s hair proves a secret treatment exists.” Public figures rarely disclose what they have done, and speculation about any individual is exactly that. The interventions with mainstream evidence are the two medicine classes above and surgery. Nothing else in the marketplace has comparable support.

“Staging is a way of charging twice.” The evidence on healing, blood supply and growth timelines gives staging a clinical logic that would exist even if every stage were free. Its purpose is to protect a resource that does not regenerate.

Questions to ask your care team before a staged hair transplant repair plan

A good consultation for repair is longer than one for a first transplant, because there is more history to review. These questions help make sure the conversation covers what matters.

• Which specific problems from the earlier work are you planning to correct, and which are you advising me to leave alone?
• Do you propose removing grafts first? If so, by excision or punch, and what do you expect the removed sites to look like once healed?
• Which of the removed follicles do you expect to be able to recycle, and how will you decide?
• How much safe donor hair do I have left, how did you measure it, and how much of it would this plan use?
• Where will the new hairline sit, and how does that position account for the hair loss you expect me to have in twenty years?
• What is the interval you anticipate between stages, and what will you be looking for before deciding to proceed?
• What result is realistic given my donor supply, and what would you tell me if I asked for more?
• Which risks apply particularly to repair on previously operated scalp, including scarring, poor graft survival and prolonged numbness?
• Should I discuss medicines for pattern hair loss with my prescribing clinician before we finalize the design, and how would that change the plan?
• What records, photographs and graft counts will you give me after each stage, and how will follow-up be arranged?
• If I stop after the first stage, what would the result look like, and is camouflage an option instead of regrafting?
• Who will I contact if something worries me between visits, and how quickly can I be seen?

The answers matter less as facts than as signals. A team that welcomes the donor question, names a ceiling on what is achievable and describes the waiting periods without impatience is showing how it will behave when the plan meets an unexpected turn. Bring the earlier operation’s records if any exist; even a few dated photographs help the surgeon understand how the scalp has behaved.

When to call your doctor

Most recovery after any stage of hair transplant repair is uneventful: mild tenderness, small scabs, some swelling and, a few weeks later, shedding that looks worse than it is. A short list of signs, drawn from Cleveland Clinic and MedlinePlus descriptions of complications, should prompt a same-day call to the surgical team rather than a wait for the next appointment.

• Bleeding that does not stop with gentle, steady pressure for several minutes, or that soaks through dressings repeatedly.
• Spreading redness, increasing warmth, swelling that worsens after the third day, or pus at graft, punch or suture sites, which may indicate infection.
• Fever, chills or feeling generally unwell in the days after surgery.
• Severe or escalating pain not eased by the measures the team advised.
• Swelling around the eyes severe enough to affect vision, or any change in vision.
• A sutured wound that opens, or edges that separate.
• Numbness that is spreading or accompanied by weakness rather than gradually improving.
• Multiple grafts that appear to have lifted out of their sites in the first days, especially with bleeding at the base.
• Any allergic-type reaction such as a widespread rash, facial swelling or difficulty breathing, which needs emergency care rather than a call.

Later concerns deserve attention too, though with less urgency: persistent folliculitis, small pimple-like bumps around growing hairs, that keeps recurring; a scar that thickens, itches or grows beyond the original wound, which can indicate keloid or hypertrophic scarring; or hair that has not begun to regrow many months after the timeline the team described. None of these is an emergency, but all are reasons to arrange a review rather than to wait for the next planned stage.

The general rule holds across every stage: if something looks or feels different from what you were told to expect, the team that operated should hear about it first. They know what they did and what the scalp looked like when they finished. That knowledge is the reason continuity of care is built into a staged plan in the first place.

Frequently asked questions

Can a bad hair transplant be fixed?

Many unsatisfying transplants can be substantially improved, though the ceiling depends on how much donor hair remains. Common problems such as a low or straight hairline, large clumped grafts and wrong-angle hair are usually addressed by removing the offending grafts first, then redesigning and regrafting in later sessions. A surgeon examining the donor area under magnification can say what is realistic for a particular scalp; that assessment, not a general promise, is the honest answer.

What is a revision hair transplant and how is it different from a first one?

A revision, or repair, transplant corrects the results of earlier surgery rather than treating untouched scalp. It differs in three ways: it often starts with removing grafts instead of adding them; it works on skin that already carries scar tissue and a reduced blood supply; and it draws on a donor area that has already been harvested. Those constraints are why revisions are more often staged across several sessions than first procedures.

Is a very large graft number, such as five thousand, overharvesting?

It depends entirely on the donor area. A count that is reasonable for a person with dense donor hair and no previous surgery could visibly thin the back and sides of someone with sparse hair or a prior harvest. Surgeons judge safety by measuring donor density and estimating future hair loss, not by a fixed figure. In repair, where part of the donor budget has already been spent, the safe number is typically smaller than in a first procedure.

What happens twenty years after a hair transplant?

Hair moved from the safe donor zone generally keeps growing, but the native hair around it continues to follow its genetic pattern, and the NHS notes that pattern baldness affects around half of men by fifty. A transplant designed for a young face can therefore look isolated decades later as surrounding hair recedes. That stranded appearance is one of the most common reasons people seek repair, and the reason redesign plans for future loss.

How does hair transplant graft removal work, and does it leave scars?

Grafts are removed either by excising a small strip of skin containing them and closing it with fine sutures, or by lifting individual follicular units out with a small punch. Excision leaves a thin linear scar; punch removal leaves tiny dots. Both are usually placed so later hair can cover them. Removed follicles in good condition can sometimes be re-implanted elsewhere. Sutures, where used, are typically removed around ten days after surgery.

How long do I have to wait between stages of hair transplant repair surgery?

Long enough for the previous stage to reveal its result. MedlinePlus describes shedding within two to three weeks and regrowth beginning months later, and Cleveland Clinic notes the appearance continues to mature for up to a year. Surgeons therefore usually assess for the next stage after many months rather than weeks. The exact interval is set individually, depending on how the scalp heals and how much regrowth needs to be judged before the design is finalized.

Why does my hair fall out after a repair session?

Shedding of transplanted or recycled hair in the first weeks is an expected part of the follicle’s cycle, not a sign of failure. The hair shaft is released while the follicle beneath rests, then begins producing a new hair a few months later. MedlinePlus and Cleveland Clinic both describe this pattern. The area can look sparser than before surgery during this period, which is one reason the team asks for patience before judging the outcome.

Do I need to take medicine as part of fixing a bad hair transplant?

Not necessarily, but the team may ask you to discuss it with your prescribing clinician. Two medicine classes with mainstream evidence, oral five-alpha-reductase inhibitors and topical minoxidil, act on the native hair around the transplanted area and take months to show an effect, working only while used. Knowing whether that hair is likely to stabilize helps the surgeon design the hairline. Any decision to start, continue or change a medicine belongs to the prescriber.

What did a celebrity use to regrow their hair?

Nobody outside a person’s own care team knows, and public speculation about any individual’s medical history is unreliable. What can be said is that the interventions with mainstream evidence for pattern hair loss are limited to two medicine classes and surgical transplantation, each with recognized limits and side effects. A dramatic change in a public figure’s hair is more likely to reflect those options, styling or camouflage than a secret product.

Can grafts be placed into an old donor scar?

Sometimes. Scar tissue has a poorer blood supply than normal scalp, so grafts placed into it are typically fewer and more widely spaced than elsewhere, and survival is less predictable. For that reason, grafting into a scar is often carried out as a separate stage with a modest number of follicles, and the team may return once it is clear how well the scar has accepted them. Cosmetic pigmentation is sometimes discussed as an alternative or complement.

References

• MedlinePlus: Hair transplant
• NHS: Hair loss

This article is for general information only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Please consult a qualified doctor about your individual situation.