No growth... What are the causes? Hairtech

Hair Transplant
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» I bet you are saying to yourself… That Hairtech sure is crazy. I am
» sometimes crazy… but when it comes to hair transplants… I am not
» crazy.
»
» It is a fact. The people who were there knows it was a fact. And
» sometimes that is how we arrive at realizations that are simple.
» Statements that just happened to be… Sometimes… doctors (in this field
» of medicine only) don’t know what works and doesn’t work. It takes
» hunches, or gut feelings to go forward. I believe that it is ok to go on
» hunches or gut feelings of the doctor or the technician… What is not
» cool is when the tech. or the patient is taken advantage of by the
» attending physician. And in this field of medicine… it happens every
» day. This field of medicine is so unpredictable. Even in strip… it is
» so unpredictable. Most of the decisions of how we got here today were
» based on “hopes” and not pure science.

I think that FUE surgery has lower yield sometimes due to extraction, I think the top docs can do it fine but it is a more difficult surgery so i think the more rookie docs would have much more trouble with it.

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» What are all of the variables that may cause grafts not to grow? I will
» list a few and I hope anyone and everyone chips in.
»
» The reason why I want to look into this is because recently there has been
» some debate over which types of grafts are more susceptible to no growth…
» FUE or Strip grafts?
»
» 1. transection of bulb
» 2. Lengthy time out of body
» 3. Dried grafts
» 4. crushed bulbs by forceps
» 5. crushed bulbs while implanting
» 6. smashed grafts
» 7. poorly placed grafts that are too high that causes them to dry out
» 8. poorly trimmed grafts that damage the dermal papilla
» 9. poorly created sites that severely traumatize the circulation
» 10. Grafts that improperly implanted where upon the bulb is not down but
» pointing the opposite direction within the site
» 11. Too small of site used
» 12. Increased Telogens usage without the dermal papilla
» 13. Unprotected (by adipose as would be in strip grafts)FUE grafts which
» are easily crushed or smashed by technicians
» 14. no magnification used and sites are over loaded with excess grafts
» from technician error
» 15. No oversee from physician
» 16. Patient error by mechanical damage
» 17. Sunburn Post Op
» 18. adding more sites to healing grafts during a multiple day FUE
» session.
»
»
» Can anyone think of anything else?

Another cause might be improper initial diagnosis. Should the patient have hair loss due to an autoimmune disorder, the body will attack the transplanted hair just as it attacked the native hair. Thus, the transplant might not grow.

Other causes might be shock, allergic reaction, inappropriate holding solution, inflammatory disease, chronic infectious disease, metabolic disorders, prolonged high fever, drug therapy, significant physical illness, poor diet or anemia, early susequent transplant, graft loss, chlorinated swimming pools, etc.

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» Another cause might be improper initial diagnosis. Should the patient
» have hair loss due to an autoimmune disorder, the body will attack the
» transplanted hair just as it attacked the native hair. Thus, the
» transplant might not grow.

I would hope that Alopecia Areata/totalis/universalis would be something caught before a transplant.
»
» Other causes might be shock, allergic reaction, inappropriate holding
» solution, inflammatory disease, chronic infectious disease, metabolic
» disorders, prolonged high fever, drug therapy, significant physical
» illness, poor diet or anemia, early susequent transplant, graft loss,
» chlorinated swimming pools, etc.

All of these were either covered in this thread or something that would be out of the ordinary. However thank you for your input.:slight_smile: :slight_smile: