Preoperative instructions - FUT
We are honoured by the confidence you invest in us. In order to prepare for your procedure in the best possible way, please follow these instructions :
- If you are a smoker, it’s best not to smoke 24 hours prior to the procedure.
- Reframe from drinking alcohol in the 3 days leading up to surgery.
- On the day of your procedure, take a bath/shower and wash your hair with your regular shampoo. Avoid putting hair gel or any other lotion on your hair (do not apply Minoxidil).
- It’s important to have a good breakfast the morning of your procedure and to avoid clothing that covers the neck : it’s better to opt for a shirt.
- As a reminder, for the purpose of FUT, your donor area will be shaved in order to harvest grafts and tissue. Shaving will slightly exceed the upper and lower edges in order to allow a proper surgical stitch or "suture".
Medication
You will take the following medication :
- Medrol 4mgr : Two 4mg pills, three times daily. This is a preventive treatment for oedema of the forehead. In general, it does not need to be taken if the surgery is only to the vertex.
- Augmentin 500mg (or any other amoxicillin-based medicine) : Three times daily which is an antibiotic aimed at preventing infection.
The Medrol + Augmentin treatment is to be started on the day before your procedure and needs to be continued for 5 days in total. During your consultation you reported no existing allergies to these drugs. If that’s not the case, please contact Dr. Plovier as soon as possible. Moreover, should you not be able to find the prescribed medication, kindly let us know so we can provide these during your preoperative consultation. In this case, your medication intake starts on the day of surgery instead of the day before.
Miscellaneous
If you’re taking multivitamins, vitamin B or E, you need to stop taking them a week before your procedure as certain vitamins aid bleeding.
Furthermore, reframe from taking aspirin, anti-inflammatories and any herbal medication a week before surgery. If you’re taking anti-depressants, anticoagulants, beta blockers or any other medication, please inform Dr. Plovier.
Blood test
We require a blood analyses (testing for Hepatitis B & C and HIV). Ideally, the results of this blood analyses should be sent to us 2 days prior to your procedure at the latest.
If you have a copy, you can send us the results via email and hand us the paper copy on the day of the procedure.
Payment
As confirmation of your decision, you’re requested to transfer a 2500€ deposit to the bank account of Dr. Plovier – Dr. Czupper Payment of the deposit needs to be done in the first week following reception of these instructions. If payment wasn’t done on time, one further reminder will be sent and the procedure date is subject to cancellation.
Banc : Belfius Adress : Markt 2 Name of the beneficiary : BVBA DR. Plovier – Dr. Czupper Account number : 068891143774 IBAN : BE16068891143774 BIC : GKCCBEBB Message : your name
The sole purpose of the deposit is to ensure that your decision is final and well-considered. Upon receipt of your deposit, the reservation of the procedure date will become firm.
Your deposit shall be refunded should the surgery not take place due to a major incident (accident, hospitalisation, death of a loved one). In case you desist from the procedure, we ask you to inform us at least 4 weeks before in order to allow refund of your deposit and to allow us to reorganise surgery slots. Payment of the balance will happen on the day of surgery.
These are the accepted means of payment :
Cash payment
Payment by advance bank deposit.
We do not accept credit card or bank card payments.
A bill with payment details will be handed to you after the procedure.
Hair2BeClinic
The clinic of Dr. Plovier is located at 466 Brusselsesteenweg 3090 Overijse in Belgium.
You can reach us by telephone on +32 2 309 6000
Or by email : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The procedure
The day before your procedure :
An OBLIGATORY preoperative consultation is generally scheduled on the eve of the procedure between 5 pm and 6 pm. We kindly ask you to contact our secretary in order to fix a specific time. If your procedure is scheduled on a Monday, the consultation will happen on Monday morning. Should you wish so, it can also happen during a morning appointment in the week leading up to your procedure.
In the course of this consultation, all details regarding your procedure will be discussed, and the consent form as well as the postoperative instructions will be handed to you. We will also make a photocopy of your identity document in order to add it to your medical record.
D-day :
We will be expecting you at Hair2beClinic’s reception desk at 7 am. The clinic is equipped with a kitchen and we will provide lunch and other snacks. However, should you have any dietary requirements (vegetarian meal, no pork, halal etc.) we ask you to inform our secretary as soon as possible so we can order a meal that suits you.
You’re not allowed to drive after your procedure. This procedure is expected to end at around 6 pm. The night following your hair transplant, we will ask you to hydrate the recipient area by means of a physiological saline solution to be sprayed, which will be provided. You are not to touch the grafts.
The day following your procedure :
Please follow the postoperative instructions mentioned in the document that was explained and handed to you.
We remain at your disposal for any other queries you might have.
