michael barry
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Hi guys,
Over at hairsite.com there are quite a few threads devoted to body hair transplants. Some of the pictures are quite encouraging. Ive now seen two mature body hair to head transplants that look pretty darn good considering the state of male pattern baldness the guys had beforehand. Body hair also has successfully been implanted into transplant zip scars, enabeling guys to buzz their hair short if they want (this to me is the most economical way to get a transplant without noticeable scarring----having one regular follicular unit procedure the standard way with ONE nice linear scar in the donor area, later to be filled in FUE-style with just a small amount of hairs to disguise the very thin scar......you really woulnt be able to tell a guy ever had anything done).
The circumrence of BH seems to stay a tad smaller than scalp hair, however based on the results Ive seen, believe it or not this seems to be ideal for frontal work as your frontal hairs are rarely as large as the donor area hairs anyway. The docs performing body hair-to head hair implants are Jones in Toronto, Cole at his various offices in America, Umar in California, and an apparently very nice Dr. in India named Poswal who guys at hairsite call Dr. A. Dr. Woods also does body hair, but I have to be honest.....I hear his fees are rather high. He is in Australia.
I feel like body hair could provide "insurance" for a guy concerned about further loss later. It would help the transplant industry assure patients that they WILL indeed have enough hair for reasonable coverage all over their heads. Docs can do great jobs on hairlines with follicular units nowadays and only a really LOUSY pracitioner would give you "plugginess" of the transplants of a decade ago. The innovation of precise surgical instruments (much at Dr. A's designs) allow docs to retrieve body hair much more quickly than just a couple of years back. Its not as feasible as an FUE, but we are talking about folks who dont have enough donor area hair for an FUE or dont want to take TOO many hairs out of the donor area so it looks unnaturally thin.
One of my qualms about body hair initially was "yeah, but DHT grows body hair, and if I stay on propecia, it wont grow long on my scalp or widen circumferentially". Ive been educated that several male hormones make body hair grow and that the body hair you have on you body growing now despite the propecia, will still grow on you head, and its a good idea to keep taking it to save the head hair from further DHT. The threads on hairsite are positive about BH transplants for the most part as the pictures trickling in after about a year of growth are encouraging. The hair usually seems to take on characteristics of head hair after 12-24 months. If things keep going well, I think it could be a big step for this industry to the extent that practitioners could honestly assure patients that "You wont run out of donor hair, and can have reasonable thickness for a mature man".
These are ideas for guys to reasearch and look and see however, Im not telling anybody to "go get one" by any means, but it is encouraging for the business (especially for those of us with a quite a bit of body hair).
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Over at hairsite.com there are quite a few threads devoted to body hair transplants. Some of the pictures are quite encouraging. Ive now seen two mature body hair to head transplants that look pretty darn good considering the state of male pattern baldness the guys had beforehand. Body hair also has successfully been implanted into transplant zip scars, enabeling guys to buzz their hair short if they want (this to me is the most economical way to get a transplant without noticeable scarring----having one regular follicular unit procedure the standard way with ONE nice linear scar in the donor area, later to be filled in FUE-style with just a small amount of hairs to disguise the very thin scar......you really woulnt be able to tell a guy ever had anything done).
The circumrence of BH seems to stay a tad smaller than scalp hair, however based on the results Ive seen, believe it or not this seems to be ideal for frontal work as your frontal hairs are rarely as large as the donor area hairs anyway. The docs performing body hair-to head hair implants are Jones in Toronto, Cole at his various offices in America, Umar in California, and an apparently very nice Dr. in India named Poswal who guys at hairsite call Dr. A. Dr. Woods also does body hair, but I have to be honest.....I hear his fees are rather high. He is in Australia.
I feel like body hair could provide "insurance" for a guy concerned about further loss later. It would help the transplant industry assure patients that they WILL indeed have enough hair for reasonable coverage all over their heads. Docs can do great jobs on hairlines with follicular units nowadays and only a really LOUSY pracitioner would give you "plugginess" of the transplants of a decade ago. The innovation of precise surgical instruments (much at Dr. A's designs) allow docs to retrieve body hair much more quickly than just a couple of years back. Its not as feasible as an FUE, but we are talking about folks who dont have enough donor area hair for an FUE or dont want to take TOO many hairs out of the donor area so it looks unnaturally thin.
One of my qualms about body hair initially was "yeah, but DHT grows body hair, and if I stay on propecia, it wont grow long on my scalp or widen circumferentially". Ive been educated that several male hormones make body hair grow and that the body hair you have on you body growing now despite the propecia, will still grow on you head, and its a good idea to keep taking it to save the head hair from further DHT. The threads on hairsite are positive about BH transplants for the most part as the pictures trickling in after about a year of growth are encouraging. The hair usually seems to take on characteristics of head hair after 12-24 months. If things keep going well, I think it could be a big step for this industry to the extent that practitioners could honestly assure patients that "You wont run out of donor hair, and can have reasonable thickness for a mature man".
These are ideas for guys to reasearch and look and see however, Im not telling anybody to "go get one" by any means, but it is encouraging for the business (especially for those of us with a quite a bit of body hair).
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