Before your hair transplant: preparation checklist
Key takeaways
- Tell your clinic team about your health, medicines and supplements before treatment.
- Follow the written preparation plan from your clinic, because it depends on your case.
- Plan travel and time off with your clinic so you are not rushed.
Share your health information
your clinic team needs to know about chronic conditions, allergies, past surgery and every medicine or supplement you take, including blood thinners. Be complete and honest. This helps your clinic team decide whether and how to treat you safely.
Ask about medicines, smoking and alcohol
Some medicines, smoking and alcohol can affect healing. Do not stop a prescribed medicine on your own. Ask whoever prescribed it, together with your clinic, what to continue, what to pause and for how long, and get the answer in writing.
Plan your trip
Ask the clinic what the plan includes and what it does not: the treatment, medicines, aftercare and follow-up. Leave enough days in your schedule so that you are not rushed, and ask when you may fly, work and exercise again.
Questions to ask your clinic
- Who plans my hairline and who performs each step?
- What do I need to do, and avoid, in the days before treatment?
- What exactly does the written price include?
- How do follow-up photo reviews work after I go home?
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Frequently asked questions
Should I stop my medicines before a hair transplant?
Never stop a prescribed medicine on your own. Whoever prescribed it, together with your clinic, tells you what to continue or pause.
Do smoking and alcohol matter?
They can affect healing. Ask your clinic team for clear instructions for your case.
What should I bring?
Your medicine list, questions for the clinic team and comfortable clothes. Your clinic gives you its own list.