In the News – Transplants Using Leg Hair
Snippet from the article:
A new report highlights a novel way for doctors to replace thinning hairlines: transplanting leg hair.
The report, a study of two cases published in The Archives of Dermatology, describes a new procedure in which receding hairlines were restored by taking hair follicles from patients’ legs and grafting them to the head. Men’s leg hair had successfully been transplanted before to the back of the head, but these are believed to be the first documented cases of leg hair being used to restore the hairline.
Read the rest at the NY Times — A New Approach to Treating Hair Loss
The article is about Dr. Sanusi Umar’s amazing work as a pioneer in body hair transplants (BHT). He has privately reported procedures of 10,000 grafts in one sitting using body hair. These procedures are done through very long sessions at times, reported to run in the wee hours of the morning.
Body hair is not the same quality of head hair for use in hair transplants, so I don’t think that this technique will catch on. Although body hair seems to change and grow longer when placed into the head, its value is not equal to donor hair taken from the back and sides of the scalp.
It may not be of the same quality, but I would most likely take it if I suffered advanced balding. It’s how it looks that counts not how it feels!
While my legs are very hairy, all my dad’s leg hair fell off over time and he is slick bald on his legs. Wouldn’t it fall out to if that hair was tranplanted onto the head.