Normally, when someone desires body hair transplant, the doctors use the donor hair on the back of the head If a person is really hairy all over, for example, whole arms, abdomen, legs, etc, is it possible to use hair from these areas, and transplant it to the chest area? I realize that body hair takes longer to grow than head hair, but in the end, is also hair, so it should be possible, right? what is the main difference between body and head hair?
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August 4, 2015
Answer: You can transplant hairs to your chest.
Jae Pak, MDHair Restoration Surgeon, Board Certified in Emergency Medicine
Concealing strip scars can be achieved by inserting hair follicle grafts into the linear tissue. These can be harvested from other regions of your scalp. Our clinic has also designed specialized Follicular Unit Extraction technology to safely extract body (as well as head hair) as viable g...
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When you say silky hair I assume you mean low caliber hair. Now lets look at your question from a different perspective. Would the same number of low caliber silky hairs give as much coverage as coarser high caliber hair? The answer is no. The reason for this is that what we see in the...
There are a number of options you have, of course, I would have to see you to make an actual recommendation. The three options could include (1) scalp micropigmentation (see below), (2) scalp expanders and (3) hair transplants
