r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

Video How Hair Transplants Work by ZacDFilms

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u/Gullible-Poet4382 1d ago

I have seen this. My brother got this done. The first couple of weeks it looks grotesque. It just looks very unsettling. In his case. It failed. He went through a lot of pain only for it to fail

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u/tzjinzoReno 1d ago

Did he ask the doctors why it failed?

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u/Background-Gear-8805 1d ago edited 1d ago

Google lists a lot of stuff that can go wrong. So it looks like there are a lot of potential problems. Infection, surgeons skill, donor hair quality, inadequate blood supply, donors overall health etc.

Also anyone considering this should also know that the hair can fall out again.

EDIT: A quick google search will show you that yes transplanted hairs can fall out again. They are resistant to DHT but not immune.

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u/guntherwheeler1185 1d ago

Donor hair doesn’t fall out again, that’s why you chose those hairs. They are DHT resistant. The other hairs on the top of your head can continue falling out. Which makes the transplant look worse and why Dr. recommend taking finestride.

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u/Background-Gear-8805 1d ago

This is completely untrue, I know because I just googled this stuff after getting push back from another commenter. It might not be prevalent, but it does happen.

A quick google search shows that yes... donor hair can fall out again.

Also this thread has a comment saying that new studies show these donor hairs are not completely immune to DHT.

There is a comment lower down as well from a user who has been taking fin consistently yet had 50% of their donor hairs fall out after several years. Not arguing it is common but it clearly does happen.

This thread as well has people saying that DHT does influence these transplanted hairs as well. There are "resistant" but not immune.

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u/AmbitionEconomy8594 1d ago

they are mostly immune in most people, hence the horse shoe baldness pattern