On average, how much fallout does occur?
• For most patients, effluvium is not a major issue and should not be a cause for concern. Typically, about 20 percent of patients find their hair looks a little thinner during the several-month period following the transplant, when the transplanted hair is in its latent phase. This ends when the transplanted hair begins to grow. The thinning is often more noticeable to the patient than to others. Shedding is generally noted as a thinning, rather than extensive fallout as the term shock loss erroneously suggests.
