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Important information to know before and after your hair transplant procedure
Things to know... before your surgery
  5 Steps to Increased Confidence
  The Decision
  Preparing for Surgery
  The Concept
  The Donor Area
  The Recipient Area

Things to know... after your surgery
  Introduction
  Post-Op Redness
  Pimples
  Shedding of Grafts
  Removing the Staples or Sutures

View many patients in our before and after photo gallery

Poll Question
What are your biggest anxieties about having surgery?
Overall cost of surgery
The results of surgery
It will be obvious that you had surgery
Assumed associated discomfort during surgery

Preparing for Surgery

What you need to know and do prior to your procedure.

Once you have selected a surgeon, he or she will provide you with instructions pertaining to specific medications, vitamins and activities that should be avoided prior to surgery. Further, some surgeons may require that blood work also be performed. Otherwise, preparing for surgery is quite simple. Just follow the short list of instructions provided by your surgeon.


IMPORTANT HAIR TRANSPLANT TIP

As mentioned in other subsections, you may want to consider growing your hair 1/4" - 1/2" to assist with the covering of the staples or sutures. Further, a few tanning sessions (avoid burning) will also assist with camouflaging post-op redness of the recipient area.