What kind of hair will grow when you use chest or leg hair for hair transplant?

The thing about hair loss is that it is irreversible. In principle, baldness due to androgenetic alopecia is written in the genes.

Although medication can slow down the development of hair loss, there are more or fewer problems of poor results and side effects, such as finasteride treatment may lead to impotence and other adverse reactions.

At present, the best way to treat hair loss can only be done from the root, by transplanting hair follicles from other parts of the body that respond normally to androgens to the hair loss area, which is what we call hair transplantation.

Generally speaking, healthy hair follicles are taken from the back of the head of the patient with hair loss, and after separation and culture, they are re-implanted into the area of hair loss, and if they survive well, they will grow back.

However, this method of "tearing down the east wall to mend the west wall" is not foolproof, if the east wall is already in ruins and the west wall is already empty, then it is not possible to tear down the bricks to mend the wall.

For example, patients with severe hair loss, large areas of hair loss on the top of the head, the back of the occipital area can no longer provide enough healthy hair follicles, or there may be patients who have already had hair transplants, because the survival of hair follicles is not ideal, and the back of the occipital area is difficult to extract hair follicles again.

In facThisof hair transplantation practice is still a little small, after all, for hair loss patients, hair is already less, there is a success rate of the extraction of hair follicles, a pass operation, the total amount of hair is actually less, just become more evenly distributed.

So is there a way to have a bigger pattern? Of course, there is, who said only hair can be planted on the head?

Haven't you heard the song? "Everybody's got hair on their body, let me sing your hair, what exactly are some of the hairs on our body, let me sing it to you!"

Maybe some of you don't know that there are so many kinds of hairs on our body, the ones that grow on our legs, on our chest, on our back, under our armpits, long, short, curly, and straight.

So which hairs can be referred to as the hair itself and be transplanted to the head?

Many doctors have long thought about this question and even tried to conclude that chest hair, leg hair, armpit hair, back hair, and even pubic hair can be transplanted to the head, but in practice, the most commonly used would be the beard.

There are several advantages to the beard being used for hair transplants, the first being that its follicles are strong enough to withstand tossing and turning, and the second being that beards are easy to obtain. Generally speaking areas with a high incidence of baldness have a high prevalence of both beard and body hair in men, which gives the doctor an abundance of raw material.

Doctors usually extract the beard from the transition area between the chin and the neck, because this part of the beard does not affect the aesthetics much, it is not very pleasing to the eye, and it is also troublesome to take care of, so it is a bit of a "waste use".

But we can also easily think, after all, the beard is a beard and it and hair in the form of a relatively large difference.

To East Asians, for example, our hair cross-section is approximately round, and the hair is relatively straight, while the cross-section of the beard has angles, harder than the hair, but also easy to curl.

Imagine if you have a beard on your forehead, I'm afraid nothing can accept it. Of course, doctors consider all this, as different hairs have different textures and are usually mixed with hair for transplantation, and the beard can make the implanted area look thicker.

Although there is a possibility of touching the hair, after all, you have to touch it yourself, so it is not a big problem.

However, the reason why a beard can be the first choice for body hair transplantation, there is a hidden attribute, that is, the beard and hair growth cycle is more similar, simply put, it can grow longer with the same hair.

Think about it, can a beard keep growing without shaving? The image of a long beard is more common in both eastern and western cultures.

Then the question arises if the transplant to the head is not a beard, but chest hair, leg hair, or hand hair such as shorter hair, what will happen? Will it remain the same or will it grow as long as the hair?

The life cycle of all hair follicles can be divided into the growth phase, the decline phase, and the resting phase.

The growth phase is the stage of rapid hair growth, for example, hair can grow 1~2 cm per month during the growth phase, then it will enter the decline phase, the hair no longer grows, enter the maintenance phase, and finally, hair follicle enters the resting phase, the hair has "existed in name only" and may fall off at any time.

A healthy hair follicle will cycle between the anagen phase, the recession phase, and the resting phase, and it can be found that the hair will only grow during the anagen phase, so the length of the anagen phase will determine the length of the hair.

The human hair growth period is 2 to 8 years, and the average is 4 years, according to the average growth rate estimated at 4 years can grow to dozens of centimeters, which is why many girls keep hair for more than 10 years and eventually is long hair and waist.

As for the other leg hair, chest hair, and other body hair, their growth period is not long, generally, only one or two months, which leads them to grow only to a few centimeters in length, even if you give it time, it will only fall off.

Here is a little knowledge about shaving, many girls are afraid that after shaving leg hair will grow thicker and thicker that is just the illusion that the hair is thin and pointed after the end is broken, as long as you wait until the hair follicle into the next cycle, the new growth of hair will return to the original appearance.

Going back to the previous question, what would happen to body hair like leg hair and chest hair if they were transplanted into the head? The answer is that they tend to remain in their original state, after all, the hair follicles are not changed, they grow as long as they should and curl as much as they should.

However, some doctors have suggested that after these body hairs are transplanted to the head, the hairs of individual follicles will also grow longer and become similar to hair. But in general, these body hairs still do not become as long as hair, and it may be more special if you keep long hair.

After transplanting more than 3,000 back hairs, this patient's hair has improved qualitatively

However, while the theory is beautiful, the reality is not always as satisfying as it could be. Some doctors point out that the results of body hair transplants are often less than satisfactory because there is only one hair follicle for body hair, while there are often two to three hairs, and the results are always somewhat compromised.

Many hair transplant surgeons have stated that they do not recommend performing this particular hair transplant if the patient's scalp is not unable to obtain enough follicles.

Little to no scarring after extracting chest hair

Of course, technology is always advancing, and the current technology of playing with body hair in the field of hair transplantation is still the most potential for Indians, on the one hand, they have probably the largest group of hair loss in the world, and on the other hand, Indians have more body hair, which both provides a very good stage for Indian doctors.

Today's impossible may be tomorrow's basic operation.

The Indian doctor's craft can be described as a wonderful hand

In addition to the variety of sources of hair follicles for hair transplantation, the sites of hair transplantation are becoming more and more imaginative, for example, sparse eyebrows can be improved with body hair transplantation, and some areas of the legs that no longer grow hair due to trauma and other reasons can also be transplanted.

Even with some congenital lack of armpit hair, pubic hair can also choose to improve through transplantation, in short, as long as there is a demand, technology can solve the problem.

This is an inspirational story, all kinds of body hair that do not see the sun all year round even can not breathe the fresh air outside, it is the development of technology that let them wait for the "day of emergence" ......