Body hair transplants are not generally considered accepted treatment for balding. It is considered more on the experimental side. As for costs, it really depends on the doctor. As body hair transplantation is done with follicular unit extraction (FUE), costs are likely higher than a traditional strip surgery using scalp hair anyway. That is moot […]
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If you want curly hair in the temples, it can be done… and done successfully. I would question your motives, but upon examining you I can answer questions about the character of your head hair that will allow me to judge the appropriateness of such a request.
In the cases I’ve seen, body hair transplantation (BHT) does not look natural at all. A while ago I saw a picture in the National Enquirer that showed a person who had his head transplanted with pubic hair. The transplants kept their hair character in the transplanted process… and no surprise, it looked like he […]
Snippet from the article at MSNBC: Read the full text — Hair here, then there: Odd transplants take root I guess it is still news that hair from the scalp can be transplanted to any part of the body, but we’ve been doing this for many years. There are some examples of transplanted eyebrows and […]
Body hair transplantation is not a gold standard method to transplant hair to the scalp, because body hair looks and behaves different than scalp hair. Damage isn’t the problem — hair growth cycles are. Only about 50% of the body hair is in growth stage at any one time, so the hair-for-hair yield is 50% […]
Neck hair is not permanent hair in many people so it should not be used for donor transplant hairs. Filling in a beard with holes of absent hair works very well. Moving hair from one place to another can be done, but I would rather meet you and make some determinations of goals, hair quality, […]
Yes, we do eyebrow transplants! Body hair transplants (from the back, chest or leg) have been attempted in the past with minimal success because the telogen cycle is long, at times longer than the growth cycle. Although scalp hair transplant to the eyebrow is routinely done, it does not always produce soft eyebrows that women […]
Yes, chest or body hair can be used for eyebrow transplants, but that would not be my first choice (see past entries I’ve written about body hair transplants). Eyebrow transplants do not usually take much hair.
No, the oils probably do not help with your hair loss. Of course, you’re welcome to try the product out for yourself, but I don’t see anything in that list that will cause your hair to regrow. My question to you is why did you use Rogaine (minoxidil) and Propecia (finasteride) when you classify yourself […]
Such a transplant (beard to scalp) would technically work, but to what master design is the question! The character of beard hair is different than scalp hair. You’d need to come in for a consultation and let me look at the many variables. With your goals clearly defined, we can discuss not only using beard […]
When a patient comes in and requests it, I will test biopsy him with the FUE² first. No such patient has come forth yet.
I have discussed body hair transplants before (see posts about BHT). I would want to know why you felt that body hair was better than scalp hair. The growth success reflects the growth cycle and the sleep cycle of body and leg hairs such that far less than 90% growth occurs at any one time. […]
You can move your own hair from one place to another on your body. Yes, from your leg to your chest should work as well as from your leg to the scalp or the scalp to your leg. The leg hair is shorter and there is a 50% telogen phase for all hair follicles, which […]
Although not a procedure we would usually do, hair can absolutely be transplanted to your underarm (armpit) area. If we would use scalp hair for this type of procedure, it will have the characteristics of scalp hair. The good news is that the glands that come with it should not put out much perspiration so […]
In my opinion, results of body hair transplants are not well documented. I appreciate your desperate cry for some solution, but sometimes the best advice a doctor can give is just by making the patient aware of limitations in medicine. Moreover, I don’t like to experiment on patients when I know the the technology and […]
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