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Gastric bypass and other weight-loss surgeries — known collectively as bariatric surgery — involve making changes to your digestive system to help you lose weight. Bariatric surgery is done when diet and exercise haven't worked or when you have serious health problems because of your weight. Some procedures limit how much you can eat. Other procedures work by reducing the body's ability to absorb nutrients. Some procedures do both.

Hair Transplants: What to Expect

After the surgery, your scalp may be very tender. You may need to take pain medications for several days. Your surgeon will have you wear bandages over your scalp for at least a day or two. They may also prescribe an antibiotic or an anti-inflammatory drug for you to take for several days. Most people are able to return to work 2 to 5 days after the operation.

Within 2 to 3 weeks after surgery, the transplanted hair will fall out, but you should start to notice new growth within a few months. Most people will see 60% of new hair growth after 6 to 9 months. The surgeon might prescribe hair-growing drugs to improve hair growth after transplantation.
First Week
In your first week, you’ll be healing. You may see some redness and irritation in the area where the implant was performed, but this heals quickly in the vast majority of patients.
Most of our patients are back to their normal lives within a few days.
One to Three Weeks
The redness and irritation should subside within this time. The immediate healing process goes more slowly for some patients than others.
By about 10 days in, all your grafts should be firmly in place and it will be safe to resume your normal showering and shampooing habits.
One to Three Months
During this time, it’s totally normal not to see any change at all—or even worse, to notice hair falling out at a faster rate than before. You may feel like your hair looks even thinner than before you had the procedure.
This can be alarming, but it’s all part of the process. What’s happening is that your hair follicles, after briefly going dormant during the extraction and re-implantation procedure, are coming back to life.
As they do, they’re pushing out old, pre-existing hairs so they can start growing new ones. That’s why you’re noticing some hair loss.
Three to Six Month

This is where the initial growth period usually starts. The first new hairs coming in may be unusually thin and fine, or might have a lighter color or no color at all—and again, this is not a cause for worry. Subsequent hair growth will be thicker and more substantial.
It’s also not unusual for hair growth to be patchy and uneven at first. This is because the follicles may have been implanted during different periods in their growth cycle, so they’ll heal and regrow at different rates.
During this period, you might notice some red spots on your scalp that look like acne. These might be unpleasant, but they’re actually a good sign—it means new hairs are trying to come through. Some new hairs may get stuck beneath your skin like an ingrown hair, causing the red spots.

Six to Nine Months
This is usually when you should start to notice more substantial results, with your hair follicles mostly healed and the growth starting to become fuller, thicker, and closer to their normal color.

At our clinic, we usually see approximately 60% to 80% of new hair growth around the beginning of this period—starting at about the six-month mark. However, this can vary widely depending on the patient and the technique used to implant the grafts.

Nine to Twelve Months
On average, most patients see approximately 90% of their new regrowth during this period.

Twelve to 18 months
For some patients, new hair may still be coming in during this time. In addition, the texture and color of your hair may continue to change as your hair follicles find their new rhythm.

It’s extremely common for hair to fall out at first, grow in patchy, and take a year or even more to see your full results. The experience you have depends on your follicles, and no two patients are exactly the same.

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In a FUE procedure, the follicular units are extracted individually and directly from the scalp, typically using an automated system. The extraction method involves a number of tiny, round incisions or punctures scattered throughout the donor area. In some cases, FUE can also be used to harvest body hair as a donor site.

The technique used to harvest donor hair is important because it can have a major impact on both your experience and the results of your hair transplant.

Here are some of the key advantages of choosing a FUE procedure:

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