We all know that it's not easy to stop losing hair and even
medications to prevent hair fall does not work. In such times, the only
option remains is hair restoration. For any successful hair transplant
procedure, there has to be a recipient site and a donor area. At times,
when there aren't enough hair in the donor area, the alternative is body
hair transplant.
Body hair transplant is a procedure that involves examining the
entire body for donor area. It could be any area like chest, back, legs,
arms or even the beard. However, people tend to think that hair
transplanted from other parts of the body might not grow just like the
remaining hair on the head. Some thinks that the texture of the hair
would not match and refrain themselves from undergoing the procedure.
Benefits of Body Hair Transplant
• Body hair transplant is the best option when the donor areas on the scalp are limited.
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The growth of hair after the procedure are much more stable, which
means, that once they are implanted on the scalp, there is a minimal
chance that these hair will fall off with time.
• The donor hair is available in abundance because it can be picked from different parts of the body.
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When there is a need to fine-tune the hairline, body hair can do the
job. Thinner body hair can be used to create that perfect hairline, and
then thickerones can be used to create density and volume.
• For a fuller looking eyebrow, hair from the body can also be used.
Shortfalls of Body Hair Transplant
• In a hair
transplant procedure, when the donor area is on the head, there are
maximum chances that the texture and color of the hair will match
exactly to the rest of the head. Conversely, when the donor area is the
body part, the hair texture, thickness and color would not necessarily
match the hair on the head.
• Other reasons that makes surgeons not to utilize this form
of treatment is the need of special equipment, time-consuming process
and there is no guarantee that the results will be as expected.
• The
follicular units taken from the other body parts generally have less
number of hairs per graft as compared to the ones taken from the scalp
area. This eventually cause the need to extract higher number of grafts from the body areas, thereby making it an expensive procedure.
In many cases, body hair transplant
is kept as a last resort for the hair restoration procedure. Since the
process is much time consuming, it does not guarantee the desired
results in many.