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Facial hair
as an additional donor resource |
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Facial
hair are one of the most robust hair on the human
body. Moreover, its resistant to loss due to the natural
balding process of androgenic alopecia.
Therefore, they are a natural choice for augmenting
the available donor hair for transplants.
Certain precautions must be kept in mind though. Since,
the facial hair is almost 2 to 3 times more bulky/coarse
as compared to scalp hair, transplanting them close
together would be counterproductive.
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best way to use them is by mixing these hair with
the remaining scalp and body donor hair. They should
not be transplanted enmasse very close together.
These facial hair
are also a natural choice to use in the strip scar
repair procedures.
The thick calibre/coarse facial hair should not be
used for hairline or temple area reconstruction as
these areas need the finer calibre hair.
The picture below
shows beard hair (mixed with other hair), growing
in the crown area 8 months after the transplant |
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| Recipient
area for the beard donor hair |
Close
up of the recipient
area |
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| Fueoptions,
a forum poster, who underwent the world's first facial hair
transplant procedure, (in 2005), has also decided to thin
certain areas of the beard to help match the slightly thinner
hair growth in other areas. |
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We
Accept |
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The areas
are marked in yellow.
165 grafts were extracted from those areas, and the area just on
top of the chin.
Grafts were also extracted from under the jawbone on both sides.
Details of this patient's procedure were discussed worldwide and
are available at the following link. |
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Following are some pictures
of the beard donor areas in a patient.
The pictures show the healing over the last couple of days.
A 26 gauge needle (diameter 0.45mm) is juxtaposed for comparison. |
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Fueoptions has limited robust
body donor hair to be used and his scalp donor has been used up,
before he visited our clinic, to a large extent. He had 120 facial
hair grafts extracted in Feb 2006 to assess the healing.
The pictures that follow are 20 days after his 2nd, and more extensive
beard hair transplant procedure. |
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Numerous other patients have
opted for various sized sessions of facial hair extraction and transplant.
The feedback has been very positive and encouraging.
Facial hair extraction, thus, opens the opens the possibility of
a new, additional donor hair resource in individuals that have sufficient
beard hair.
Following is the picture of the
fueoption's scalp donor after he buzz cut his hair to a # 0.
There are white dot scars from the extractions performed by other
clinics years earlier. I believe that as fue has progressed, those
clinics too would have become better with their tools and techniques.
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| Scalp donor area pictures of the patients
"fueoptions" in Oct.2006 |
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Flourescent light
with out flash
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Flourescent light
with flash
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camera
setting |
Side
view
with out flash |
Side
view
with out flash |
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Immediately
after buzz cut |
3
days after |
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