Charles Medical Group Blog

Question:Are there potential risks to transplanting hair to a balding crown before the hair loss has stopped? Answer:Yes. Any time hair transplant is performed anywhere (including the crown) in an area where the hair stopped growing, there could be the risk of additional hair loss at a later or future point. It needs to be […]

Question:Is there a difference between a follicular unit and a graft? Answer:A graft is considered a piece of tissue that can be obtained either from dissecting a strip from the donor area or using individual techniques called FUE or Follicular Unit Excision. Each individual piece is considered a graft which can have either 1, 2 […]

Question:How successful are hair transplants performed on women? Answer:Hair transplantation in females is very successful. I believe that it is equally successful as it is in men. In most cases, however, women having a hair transplantation procedure have more hair to begin with so sometimes it is a littler harder to see the results when […]

Question:Is it possible to wear a hairpiece after your hair transplant as you heal to disguise the effects of the surgery? If so, is it better to use clips or tape? Answer:Yes, it is possible to wear a hairpiece following hair transplantation surgery to help camouflage the effects of the surgery until all wound healing […]

Question:Is it possible to reverse your hair loss in any way? Answer:Reversing hair loss is not something that science has figured out up to this point. We have found ways to significantly slow down and possibly stop the hair loss but not necessarily reverse it. There are medications that are used including Propecia, which is […]

Question:I had a hair transplant to both my crown and frontal hairline. I began to see growth in the frontal region but there is still nothing growing in the crown. Is this normal or could it be a sign that the transplants in the crown have not taken? Answer:It is relatively common to have hair […]

Question:In the past, when hair transplant plugs were used, how big were the grafts and about how many hairs did they contain compared to today’s FUE and FUG transplant? Answer:In the past, larger grafts were used and are commonly referred to as plugs. These generally had between 6 to 15 hair follicles per graft. In […]

Question:I have pretty extensive hair loss and was wondering are scalp flaps ever used any more? Answer:Scalp flaps and/or scalp reductions are very rarely used in today’s area of hair transplantation and/or hair restoration. There are only one to two clinics that I know of here in the United States that do still perform scalp […]

Question:When you use the FUT method are you cutting grafts that mimic natural follicular units or are you actually dissecting the hairs as follicular units? Answer:A follicular unit transplantation (FUT) is the method where a strip of donor tissue is removed and the donor wound is closed using a suturing and/or stapling technique. The strip […]

Question:I had a transplant about two 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. Typically, 95% to 98% of the transplanted hairs will […]