Donor Restocking with Body Hair

[HairEnthusiast101]

Just curious if leg or arm hair can be used for donor restocking once you’ve used your lifetime grafts and want to thicken up the donor aesthetically a bit? I wear 1-3 guard fades daily so don’t really need great Anaheim growth just a thickened look. Thanks

[gillenator]

What about chest or beard donor?

[HairEnthusiast101]

1 hour ago, gillenator said:

What about chest or beard donor?

I don’t have adequate chest or beard. I grow it in the T zone of the chest but it is super patchy. Probably no more than 40 hairs in that whole area. The beard I don’t grow it well either. That’s why I was curious with arms/legs/underarms because those areas are very thick and hairy on me. I know the survival rate is low when using that hair but was curious if it was even something doctors have done

Edited December 7, 2022 by JoDimaggio22

[Ryan Daniel]

I love the idea of rebuilding the donor area with beard hair, as long as the hairs are planted in the same downwards direction that the natural hairs are 

[Gatsby]

I saw a video that was on YouTube by Eugenix only a month ago or less @JoDimaggio22. It was a patient with Dr Arika and he was having a hair transplant purely from body hair. From memory it was because the patient had no beard and had nearly all of donor tapped out (???). Anyway have a look at Eugenix on YouTube and you will be able to find it. The patient was using leg hair (and maybe chest??). All the best mate!

[Al - Moderator]

I think @AB2000 tried putting about 200 grafts of either arm or leg hair into his nape area. Hopefully he will respond and correct me if I'm not remembering it right.

 

[gillenator]

There just have not been enough procedures using arm and leg hair donor to establish any reliable clinical data…and certainly it is understandable when the primary donor sources are limited….I strongly recommend that you consider initially doing smaller test sessions to see how the yields and regrowth time frames progress.

[HairEnthusiast101]

2 hours ago, gillenator said:

There just have not been enough procedures using arm and leg hair donor to establish any reliable clinical data…and certainly it is understandable when the primary donor sources are limited….I strongly recommend that you consider initially doing smaller test sessions to see how the yields and regrowth time frames progress.

Interesting. Thank you. Would be cool if good yield came from those areas because I could probably restock most of the donor

[gillenator]

Yes of course and I hope and wish you the best results possible my friend.

More than a decade ago, when BH was buzzing in the hair loss communities, some guys were doing large BH procedures only to experience very poor yields and losing lots of money so IMHO, it makes more sense to approach it with smaller test sessions especially when using unproven donor sources.

[Rahal Hair Transplant]

@JoDimaggio22,

Leg and arm hair are not really the best choices since they are typically rather thin compared to chest and beard hair which is why another member has mentioned this.  Also, I wouldn’t really use the phrase “donor restocking“ as it implies that the ultimate intention is to later use the new donor hair that was taken from the body and reapplied to the scalp. This would not be a good idea. That said, if your intention is to simply thicken up the donor area that you feel is a little thin, using chest or beard hair may work. However, you may also want to go the scalp micropigmentation route which can make the appearance of your hair thicker looking by applying tiny micro dot tattoos.  This is a non-surgical procedure that works quite well in mimicking the appearance of short hair. You may have to go back every couple of years to get it redone but it’s definitely something to consider.

Best wishes,

Rahal Hair Transplant 

Edited December 8, 2022 by Rahal Hair Transplant

[gillenator]

Most BH grows in single hair FUs.

The original terminology was known as “donor replacement therapy” or DRT.