What should be done after hair transplantation?

Hair transplantation is the process of taking hair follicles from the healthy area and transferring them to the area to be treated. There should be enough hair follicles in the donor area to meet the need, then the patient is analyzed and the procedure is started.

Hair transplantation is a surgical operation performed in an average of 5-6 hours. After hair transplantation, not much detailed care is required, but there are important procedures that need to be applied.

What needs to be done after hair transplantation is also related to the method applied and is based on the doctor’s method and recommendations. If the procedure was performed with the fue method, there is no pain or pain during and after the operation so that painkillers do not have to be used, there is no tension or numbness in the transplantation area, there are no stitches or cut marks in operations performed with fue, if a large amount of root transplantation has been done to your hair, there may be some swelling on the scalp, but it does not pose a problem. No dressing is applied after the procedure. After the hair transplantation process, it is necessary to wait 3 days to wash the hair, the first washing process should be applied in the center where the transplantation is performed, other washes and advice can be taken by the doctor about the care of the hair. After the first washing process, the hair should be washed every day for 10 days and the treated area should be massaged. There are crusts on the hair in the first ten days, but the crusts disappear with the washing process applied every day. After a while, the transplanted hair will fall out, which is a situation that should not be worried.

After an average of 2 months, the hair begins to grow, at the end of 6 months, the desired result begins to appear, and at the end of 1 year, the result of the hair transplantation process is completely finalized. In the meantime, the transplanted hair will not fall out again. Heavy work should be avoided for the first 3 days after hair transplantation, excitement and stress should be avoided. Spray, gel and paint should not be applied for 15 days after hair transplantation. It is not recommended to smoke and drink alcohol in the first week, and care can be provided with lotions and creams deemed appropriate by the doctor.

In the fut method, which is another method, the care applications are no different from the fue method, but in the transplantation procedures performed with the fut method, there is a possibility of cuts or stitch marks, since the roots are taken collectively, there may be numbness and numbness in the treated area for a while. It is recommended to cover it by wearing a hat to hide the image.