Transplanting Body Hair Into Strip Scar from Previous Surgery

Hi! Been reading your blog for quite a while now. I know that you are against body hair transplants onto the scalp, BUT — I don’t want to have body hair transplanted anywhere but into my strip scar. The reasons I saw you give in the past for avoiding body hair transplants were because body hair doesn’t grow out very long, so it would be bad for styling. Well, I would like it transplanted into my scar so I can cut my hair much shorter than I currently can without it being noticeable.

I have looked at my chest hair, and they’re not curly. I plucked out a few and compared them to my scalp hair. They’re quite similar. Is this still a terrible idea? I honestly don’t want to FUE scalp hairs because in case this simply doesn’t work and I end up deciding to just say “Screw it…I’m shaving my head and i’ll live with a visible strip scar,” I would then also have to live with little white dots all over the back of my head. I know, they’re not supposed to be very visible, but I don’t want to add to more scarring on the back of my head. I really don’t.

It’s actually not a terrible idea. I am not against using body hair to repair a scar on the scalp, provided that you realize that the telogen (resting) phase is very long… which means only about 50% of the hairs will be growing at any point in time. I would want to evaluate you first if you want me to do this.