If I Have a Hair Transplant, Can I Still Wear My Hair Short?

Written by Glenn Charles, DO on July 1, 2010

I like to keep my hair short. I buzz the back to a #2 guard and wanted to know if having a hair transplant would limit my ability to wear a short hair cut? Which method is better for this hairstyle, the strip with a trichophytic closure or FUE?
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In general, people who always cut their hair very short would be able to more easily camouflage their donor scars if they did FUE. These are tiny little punctate scars versus a linear incision, however, what a lot of people don’t understand about FUE is that if you have the type of genetic hair loss that your hair loss is going to continue over time and you are going to need more hair transplantation as the years go on and as you age, and you continue to do the FUE type of hair transplants, you can almost get a moth eaten appearance in the donor area versus having a one little linear line that can be very easily covered by hair. [...]

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Glenn Charles, DO
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