When Full-Thickness Skin Grafts Are Used, Do the Hair Follicles in the Graft Survive and Grow in the Recipient Area? Doctor Answers, Tips
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When Full-Thickness Skin Grafts Are Used, Do the Hair Follicles in the Graft Survive and Grow in the Recipient Area?

When Full-Thickness Skin Grafts Are Used, Do the Hair Follicles in the Graft Survive and Grow in the Recipient Area?

7 Doctor Answers | Asked by watson01 in Milwaukee, WI
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Skin grafting is not recommended for hair transplants

Yes, it is possible for the graft to survive and grow in the recipient area. However, skin grafting is not recommended for hair transplants since there have been so many advances in the field. Skin grafts contain almost all of the epidermis and dermis that surrounds the hair follicle and many tiny grafts are transplanted. Today’s most advanced techniques transplant one to four follicular units in their natural groupings. Whereas follicular unit strip surgery (FUSS) removes a strip of... more
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Hair Follicles in the Grafts

Typically not, the hair follicles in full thickness grafts usually do not survive, although a small percentage can in fact continue to grow.
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In full thickness skin grafts do hair follicles survive and grow in recipient area?

Yes. If skin graft includes follicles and the follicles have adequate blood supply hair can still be grown.

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Does Hair Survive in a Full-Thickness Skin Graft

There is some survival of the hairs in a full-thickness skin graft, but this is limited with decreased density compared to the original donor area. The follicle survival will depend on the technique and the size of the skin graft.
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Skin Grafts and Hair

When an entire undamaged hair follicle is transferred from one area of the body to another, survival is certainly possible. This is how hair transplants work in a basic sense.
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When Full-Thickness Skin Grafts Are Used, Do the Hair Follicles in the Graft Survive and Grow in the Recipient Area?

IMHO, this is an unknown. The hair follicles may or may not survive and it will most likely be a combination of both. If you don't want the hair follicles, have the surgeon trim the undersurface of the graft to damage the follicles.
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Unwanted hair transplanted in a skin graft

Sometimes a modest percentage of hair follicles in a full thickness skin graft taken from an area that has hair will survive . This possibility can be lessened by the surgeon trimming off the bulbs of the hair folicles which are on the underside of the graft.
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