Before the hair transplant Surgery


Before the Surgery

Different doctors have different rules for what you should and shouldn’t do before surgery, so always follow your own doctor’s recommendations. The following are common recommendations:

Review any paperwork you have before you head in for your surgery; this should include all the communications between the doctor’s office and you. You should have received a copy of the informed consent form that you have to sign on the morning of the surgery.

This document defines what the surgeon intends to do, and most important, it defines the risks of the proposed surgery. You may have questions after reading through it, so jot them down to ask the doctor if anything is unclear.

When you meet with your doctor prior to the surgery, review the informed consent document with him or her. It’s not unusual for lastminute questions to come up; legal documents are often filled with every possible risk and can be overwhelming and scary to sign.

Ask your doctor what the plan will be if the actual number of grafts harvested exceeds or falls short of the estimate you’re paying for. For strip harvesting, this is a critical question because making the estimation is as much an art as a science. Donor densities vary by the exact anatomic location on the back and sides of your head, so estimates are frequently off by 5 to 10 percent. For FUE harvesting, quantifying the grafts harvested is far more precise because hair groupings are removed one at a time.

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