Body Hair Transplant: An Additional Source of Donor Hair in Hair Restoration Surgery
January 2007
in “
Indian Journal of Dermatology
”
Studysummary This case report describes a 47-year-old male with advanced androgenic alopecia who had a cosmetically acceptable forelock growth after a hair restoration session using chest hair. Our plain-language summary of this paper — not a Tressless recommendation.
In 2007, a case study was conducted on a 47-year-old male patient with advanced hair loss (Norwood 6 category) who underwent a hair restoration surgery using body hair due to limited availability of donor hair in the scalp. The procedure involved transplanting 700 chest hair follicular units to the patient's scalp. After eight months, it was observed that the transplanted chest hair grew and formed a cosmetically acceptable forelock. This suggests that body hair can be used as an additional source of donor hair in hair restoration surgery for individuals with extensive hair loss due to androgenic alopecia (Norwood 5 and above).
