Hair transplant patients always ask how long after hair restoration procedure they can wash their hair. Here is another question on hair care after hair transplant surgery that was received in our Encino, California hair transplant office.
It’s been just over 4 weeks since I had my hair transplant procedure. I still have a few scabs. It just happened that while shampooing my hair, I ended up accidentally removing a scab and the area underneath the scab appeared red. The area that has gone red, I could not say for sure if there was any bleeding as I would have been washing it at the time with shampoo. Did I lose any graft? It has been four weeks post op and I am not sure when I can get to my normal hair wash and I really don’t want to compromise with the results.
Here is Dr. Mohebi’s answer to this post hair transplant care question:
Transplanted hair is very vulnerable in the first 4 days after hair restoration surgery. The most important day is the first day after hair transplant surgery in which I would like to bring patients back to wash their hair professionally. You can read more on Dos and Don’ts after hair transplant surgery in our web blog.
Washing after hair transplant surgery should be done meticulously, but after day 4 following a hair restoration surgery, transplanted hair follicles become part of your skin and you cannot dislodge them even if you remove hair. I usually recommend that my patients follow our washing and after hair transplant care directions on the first four days to minimize scabbing after hair transplant and don’t use any other products.
The visits for washing hair are included in the cost of hair transplant surgery in our Southern California hair transplant surgery center.
In your case at four weeks after hair transplant, there is not risk of losing any grafts and you should have been able to wash your hair in your routine long ago. At this time, you can use your regular shampoo and conditioner without being worried about losing your precious implanted hair grafts.
