Regarding when is the best time to undergo a hair transplant, the answer would vary since not all cases are the same. For example, despite what most people believe, age is not a determining factor when it comes to performing a hair transplantation or not. However, the absence of pathologies, the need to have a donor area with a certain density, are.
Although there is no preferred age to undergo a hair transplant, many specialists prefer to operate on patients who have already reached their thirties to be able to make a better study of future hair loss. Patients under 25, although they can have the operation, are not the best candidates for this intervention since, often, hair loss has not stabilized before this age. This will prevent the specialists from anticipating the hair loss evolution.
However, the biggest problem that can arise from an early intervention is that after the intervention the patient continues to lose follicles from other non-transplanted areas that still suffer from alopecia. In those cases, doctors prefer to treat these patients with pharmacological components such as minoxidil or finasteride to stabilise the loss before any other intervention.
In any case, anyone who goes to a specialised clinic is subjected to various examinations to help determine what is causing hair loss since this diagnosis reveals the type of alopecia and, therefore, the best intervention for each person.
Once the patient has gone through the series of exams, the best technique to treat their hair loss has been determined, and the patient has undergone the surgery, the patient’s doubts are far from cleared up. Taking into account that each case is unique, this situation is completely understandable.
The grafted follicles genetic information intervene in a decisive manner. For some people the follicles grow very fast and for others much slower. Since the follicles come with the same genetic information and are resistant to alopecia, they will behave the same way in the recipient area where they were transplanted.