Beard Restoration

bmw325

Hey guy , i guess am the only one from the middle east here. i just like to share with you my experience . I am 25 years old and till now i dont have a full grown beard so i decided to do a Strip and fill my beard.

The operation was done in Lebanon. More than 3500 drafts were implent in the area over an 8 hrs operation. The donor area was the back of my head .
I am now on my 5th day and things are looking good , just need your input and advise if any product should be used to strengthen the hair.

FITLocks

bmw325,

What post operative products are you using now?

We give our patients the haircycle biotin spray for the grafted areas to aid post op healing and hopefully kick start growth.
www.haircycle.com

You might also look at the haircycle donor gel for the incision area on the back of you scalp.

drcole

it looks like you are healing well. grafts are on auto-pilot after you put them in. anti-inflamatories and anti-oxidants might help with the healing. it is unknow whether they improve the yield, but they certainly will not hurt the yield. scalp hair can work very well with great sucess on the face to create beard hair. we have done this many times. best of luck to you and update us on your progress.

we have many patients from the middle east, by the way. you are not alone.

bmw325

everything is going fine except i have some hard spot on my skin and sometimes am getting some buttons with white head ( dunno if i described it right ) is this due to any inflammation or maybe the skin is rejecting the hair ?

forhair

Give it some time to heal, you can try use the haircycle post surgical gel

bmw325

Hey guy just an update now after a month on the surgery . Tell me what u think . i started shaving with an electric razor.

By the way when i sit safe to start applying minoxidil or biotin to my beard ? is it still early ?

I have lost lots of hair after the surgery !! will these grow back ?

Steve

Hi bmw325,

I'm hoping that you still check your thread or get notifications of replies to your thread. I was curious what kind of results you're seeing now that it's about 5 months after your surgery. It's been my understanding that the hair is supposed to fall out and then the first follicles start to regrow around 3 months after the procedure. Is anything growing yet? If so, what kind of quality do you see with the hairs? Are they growing in the right direction or are they pointing in random directions?

I had a similar surgery but you had a 3 1/2 month head start on me. Like you nearly all of my hairs fell out after a few weeks. Your procedure was much larger than mine because I only had 326 grafts placed and only into the lower lip. It looks like your procedure covered a much larger area.

bmw325

hey steve

well i have a good coverage now but still not as i expected . some hair are stronger than others . but it is much much of an improvement . some hairs are in random directions and growing upwards. i will try to post a pic for you to see . only this morning i shaved so in a week or so ill post it.

Steve

I once read that the month number that you're in somewhat corresponds to the number of hairs that should have revived. So if you're at 3 months then roughly 30% have revived and by 5 months you'll see about 50%, but by 12 months anything that's going to grow has started. It sounds like you still have a ways to go. Do you continue to see progress on a daily or weekly basis?

I also read that the hairs are often finer at first and a bit unmanagable, but eventually become coarser. Sounds like you may be experiencing that as well. There's so much info on the web about the procedure itself but not nearly so much info about the long-term post-op process.

Thanks for the reply. Hopefully you won't need to shave for much longer. Is the wait driving you nuts?

bmw325

hey steve these are the pics hope it help to see the improvement .