Significance of Body Hair Transplant

Body Hair Transplant is minimally invasive procedure; grafts containing hair follicles that are genetically resistant to balding are transplanted to the bald scalp.  It is used to restore eyelashes, eyebrows, beard hair, chest hair and to fill in scars caused by accidents or surgery such as face-lifts and previous hair transplants.

Body hair transplant now a day is gaining popularity in the patients, in whom adequate donor grafts are not available. It is essentially the extraction of donor grafts from areas other than scalp and implanting then into the balding areas of scalp.

Many areas can be used for body to scalp hair transplant like beard, chest, arms, and legs.

The area for donor should be selected depending on the hair characters of the recipient area.

The texture, thickness other characteristic should be kept in mind, along with the direction of growth.

The rate of growth is different for both the scalp hair and the body hair. Generally body hair grows at slower pace.

The significance of the use of body hair comes into play where there is diminished number of donor grafts so body hairs can be used for filling and increase the density in large areas.

It can also used for repairing the previous hair transplant and also to transplant in areas like scars from previous surgery.