follicle2001
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When I look at pictures of FUE donor sites on, say, the day of surgery, I often see that many grafts are taken from very high and very low in the back of the head at the margins of the "safe zone." If you look at bald men in their 50s-70s, most seem to have lost or markedly thinned out much of the hair at the top of the back of the head and the bottom above their neck.
Are there any LONG TERM studies of FUE graft survival for grafts taken from these at risk zones? What happens to FUE patients 20 years later, when these hairs would have fallen out-do they experience a loss of transplanted hair? Would you have to take finasteride for decades to preserve these grafts?
We all talk about yield and graft survival rates, but those seem to be in the short term. What happens 10 or more years later?
Are there any LONG TERM studies of FUE graft survival for grafts taken from these at risk zones? What happens to FUE patients 20 years later, when these hairs would have fallen out-do they experience a loss of transplanted hair? Would you have to take finasteride for decades to preserve these grafts?
We all talk about yield and graft survival rates, but those seem to be in the short term. What happens 10 or more years later?