When you think of hair transplant and when you know a little bit about the procedure you might wonder that can the donor site by any other part of the body i.e. does body hair transplant work. The recommended and common practice is to make the back of your head the donor site for hair to be transplanted on the bald patches. If however the head has a very low density of hair or for some other reason hairs cannot be harvested from the head the procedure can be altered so that another part of the body can be made the donor site. It can be a beard or maybe even chest hair. So let’s look at this aspect of hair restoration and try to understand it better.
Does body hair transplant work? If you were to answer this question simply the answer would be yes it does work. Is it recommended by the doctors? Not if they can help it. The process of transplantation is fairly easy and similar to that of a regular transplant. FUE or follicular unit extraction method is one that can be used in this type of transplant as well. Follicles are just harvested from the body donor site as they would usually be from the head donor site. The follicles extracted are then grafted onto the bald patches by opening the graft pores and planting the follicles in them. The whole procedure is simple and painless. Another procedure is that the grafts are directly extracted from the donor site by making a circular incision inside the skin which surrounds the graft. The grafts are then placed into the preserving solution and planted into the receiving area.
After getting the answer to the question “does body hair transplant work?” The natural question would be to ask if there are side effects and why doctors don’t recommend it. There are a couple of reasons for that. Doctors usually don’t recommend it because the success rate is lower than the transplant from the scalp. Secondly, this procedure requires a little bit more experience and is thus difficult. Also, there are some other factors that need consideration in this process like the structural difference of body and scalp hair, their compatibility, the process as a whole, etc. The main side effect of the procedure would be the scars on the body as some white dots might be appeared after the process.
Does body hair transplant work? This is most probably a question you should ask yourself. Does it work for you or is there a better option for you? Of Course, if you have a healthy donor site on your head there is no need to take the risk of a body hair transplant especially after the low rate of success and textural issues. So in conclusion we can say that although this procedure does work it is not wise to go through with it if you have a better alternative available for you and unless it is not an important need of yours to get the transplant.