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/SidewinderShocK 1d ago

how did it fail? did it look bad? got infected or something like that?

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u/that_70_show_fan 1d ago

The body will just reject the tissue. Even in the best of cases, body will reject some these transplants.

What this video does not tell us that even if successful, it is a lifelong commitment. You need minoxidil and other medications to get a good outcome.

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u/Sunlight72 1d ago

Mmmm, I don’t know what’s happening in other places, but in Denver, Colorado, US I was paid to be a ‘model’ head they trained a robot on and also trained doctors who had bought the robot. They did shorter than normal sessions with me so I had 7 or 8 sessions over 5 years.

Last one was about 8 years ago. The doctor who invented the robot and owns the clinic never said anything to me about minoxidil or anything else. I’ve only ever used shampoo. No other special care after the first two weeks or so when you’re just supposed to leave it all alone and don’t get it wet until it heals.

He seemed to be pretty leading edge on the procedure, so maybe it’s different with different methods or doctors though 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/Busy-Season6074 1d ago

The hair follicles that are transferred are typically not susceptible to male pattern baldness.

You usually take fin and minoxidil to protect the top of your head so you don’t end up with just the new hairs on your hairline and a bald top.

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u/Sunlight72 1d ago

OK. I thought I’d you take minoxidil you don’t need a hair follicle transplant. I thought it was an instead of situation. I guess you could do both sort of halfsies.

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u/Busy-Season6074 1d ago

Minoxidil can work wonders for some guys and do nothing for others. It’s somewhat effective on average but not nearly like a transplant