Chest Hair Used as Donor Material in Hair Restoration Surgery

    September 1997 in “ Dermatologic Surgery ”
    Dominic A. Brandy
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    TLDR Chest hair can be used for scalp hair transplants when there's not enough scalp hair.
    In 1997, Dr. Dominic A. Brandy conducted a case study on a 50-year-old male with type VI male pattern baldness who had insufficient donor scalp hair for hair restoration. The patient's chest hair was used as an alternative donor source. A total of 153 one- to two-haired micrografts were harvested from the chest and transplanted to the scalp. Six months after the procedure, the transplanted chest hair had successfully integrated into the scalp, and the chest donor site showed inconspicuous healing. This case study indicated that chest hair could be a viable donor source for scalp hair restoration in patients lacking adequate scalp donor hair, potentially leading to further developments in the use of body hair for hair transplantation and hair cloning techniques.
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