INSANE Swelling After A Hair Transplant | Hair Surgeon Reacts

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Yeah, unfortunately, clinics want to market themselves so much that they would rather have patients experience more swelling on their heads after a hair transplant rather than proper egress of that swelling through the lymphatics with not having this compression on the forehead. So, when they put their logo on the headband, it's good for marketing, but it's not great for a patient recovery, in my opinion. So, the way we mitigate this degree of swelling is, first of all, not using a headband. Secondly, we give prednisone on the morning of surgery.

[00:00:29]That is a steroid that is anti-inflammatory. It helps reduce swelling. And also, we put Kenalog into our tumescent mixture. That is another anti-inflammatory. And we do PRP with our surgeries. That is yet another way to reduce inflammation. And if you look at one of the known patients who had surgery with me, Nick Wilkins, you can see that his post-op recovery was quite different from what this gentleman experienced.