What is the ongoing maintenance for hair transplants?

I have been doing hair transplants for the past 25 years and pioneered today’s FUE procedures. With that history, I have had an opportunity to look back on patients transplanted as much as 23+ years ago. The area I transplanted was usually maintained without medications, just from the permanent hair placed into the balding area. The average of these men was in their late 30s, which is important as so many of today’s readers are younger than that. For those men I transplanted after 1997 (when Propecia first came out), I used finasteride to prevent progressive balding, and those men, now 19 years post-transplant, still have the hair that they expected. The hair they lost mainly was frontal hair, which was replaced with transplanted hair, and the hair they kept with finasteride mainly was in their crown hair.

With that said, a small group of older men have since developed ‘age-related thinning’, in which ALL of the hair on the head becomes thinner (including the transplanted hair). This has produced a thinner transplanted area so they reached out for another transplant just last month. I told them about Age-Related Thinning in which hair transplants just will not work for them, so, I am treating two of those men, both over 65 years of age, with Age-Related Thinning by performing SMP on the previous transplanted area (on one man) and the other with SMP on his entire head. Both men still have most or all of their hair transplants present, but as their hairs thinned with age, they needed more fullness that SMP would provide for them.

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