Hair Restoration Blog

Hello,

I underwent surgery in mid-October and remember well the directive to keep the sun off my head. My question is whether I can use a tanning bed without damage or threat of damage to the transplant area if a use a bandana.

You have had your hair transplant for about two weeks now and you were wondering whether or not a tanning bed can damage your newly transplanted hair implants. What we generally recommend to our patients after hair transplant surgery at US Hair Restoration is to avoid sun exposure to the transplanted areas of the head for at least 6 months after their hair transplants. Sun exposure can slow down or stop the growth of normal, existing hair or even damage the hair follicles. The same issue may be seen with newly transplanted hair after a hair restoration surgery. Sunlight has many different components besides the visible light including ultra violet and infra red lights. We do not know for sure which components are more responsible for hair follicle damage but for this reason I prefer to treat tanning beds the same way. If you can cover your head completely to block the exposure to the light, I do not think that you have to avoid tanning beds.

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