Patients should be very care­ful if they pull scabs off and should be aware that they put them­selves at risk of remov­ing the graft. There are actu­ally two types of scabs; one of the two is stuck only to the hair and the other type is stuck to the actual sur­face of the graft. In a study it showed that for the first two days, pulling on a scab always resulted in a lost graft, the chances of the graft being com­pletely removed startes to decrease by the third day. Pulling on scabs that were stuck to the sur­face always resulted in a lost graft through day 1–5 how­ever, by days 10 – 14 post– op, grafts are at a lower risk of  being dis­lodged. You must be gen­tle with scabs if you are going to chose to pull them off, regard­less of the time frame you still risk the chance of pulling the graft out as well. If you fol­low the wash­ing tech­nique we out­line for you in our post-op instruc­tions the scabs should come off on their own. The use of Graft­Cyte which is a copper-peptied moist dress­ing, hydrates the area, as well as pro­vides micronu­tri­ents to speed the heal­ing of the fol­li­cles and will be able to elim­i­nate sur­face crust­ing while allow­ing the coag­u­lum that formed around the graft, to hold it firmly in place.