:)This patient was a Norwood 6 who aready had a surgery with the technique less is more to fill the top. For his treatment, we brought up the possibility of using body hairs as an alternative source of hair donor because the aim of the patient was to lower his hair line.
Then the patient asked us if we could also transplant his beard on a patchy spot in his cheek that was bothering him.We told him it was possible as it was a transfer in the same area (here beard to beard) as we do in hair transplant (scalp hairs to scalp hairs).
The interesting report we had from this patient was that beard hairs didn't shed in the post op as we observed in scalp hairs. We need to compare with others patients' experience to see if this is an exception or the rule!
And 2 years and 8 months later the patient kept the same benefits as showed in the following pictures:
By mywhtc at 2012-05-16
During his last visit, he came for a big session of BHT (beard and chest) to cover the vertex. He took the opportunity to do another session of BHT to BHT (beard to beard,) and we wanted to illustrate this procedure with close up pictures of the donor and the recipient areas.
By mywhtc at 2012-05-16
In summary, we just want to say that transfer of hairs from the same area seems to produce better results than hairs coming from different sources in the body because the first criteria that plays is naturalness that you get because hairs match together. And we do not need high density to produce great coverage which depends on factors such as:
-hair caliber
-Hair color or pigmentation
-hair angulation
-and of course hair density .
In our patient , the beard was coarse, a mixture of dark brown and red, implanted at flat angle (0 to 5 degrees) from the skin, at low density. The results are in the following
pictures:
By mywhtc at 2012-05-16