A body hair transplant is a hair transplant technique where hair roots/grafts are extracted from body areas other than the scalp and are implanted in the bald regions. It has gained immense popularity across the globe.
With the use of body and chest hair, we can overcome baldness in the scalp, explains Dr. Urvashi Chandra, the best Hair Transplant Surgeon in Delhi at Chandra Clinic, Delhi. This technique also gives hope to those suffering from severe hair loss and lack donor hair on their scalp area.
Why Choose Body Hair Transplant for Restoring Hair?
In any hair transplant procedure, the hair transplant surgeon normally uses the back side hair of the scalp. But most of the time, patients do not have a good donor area to serve the purpose. For such instances, the surgeon can utilize hair from the body, i.e., transplant beard to head. At Chandra Clinic, Dr. Urvashi Chandra, an expert hair transplant surgeon, performs beard hair transplants routinely in such patients to restore baldness. Some individuals name it a beard and chest hair transplant, but in actuality, the ‘beard’ and ‘chest’ serve as donor areas.
Although there will always be some texture and thickness differences between hair taken from different areas, however, it gives the advantage in situations such as:
- Grade VII patients with limited donor area on the scalp who want to cover the complete area.
- Patients occasionally desire higher densities; however, this can be challenging due to the limitation of grafts that can be extracted from the scalp in one sitting.
- A few instances, such as burn scars or scars from prior strip surgery, etc.
- The body can also be used for donor farming, i.e., implanting those in the scalp donor area.
Body Hair Transplant in Delhi is known to only some of the experienced and highly skilled surgeons around the globe. Dr. Urvashi Chandra is, fortunately, one of them. Body hair transplant is performed through an FUE procedure that leaves no linear scars when the surgery gets completed. Beard is considered a good donor area as they are thick and give more visual density. However, they look different and wiry as compared to scalp hair. That is why they are not used in the hairline. Also, they are implanted along with scalp hair follicles.
Beard Hair Transplant
Beard hair transplant in Delhi is performed in combination with scalp hair. The hair from two donor areas, i.e., the beard and the scalp, are mixed for implantation. This is done to prevent the beard hair from being visible to a larger extent and to provide natural-looking results. Utilizing hair alone on the scalp can provide unnatural results since the beard hair grows to look hard, wavy and curly.
Beard hair also aims to provide great coverage and a high survival rate. At Chandra Clinic, Dr. Uravshi Chandra, a leading hair transplant surgeon, takes the maximum beard from below the jawline and not from the beard on the face. She makes use of ultra-fine sharp punches to extract hair to prevent chances of scarring and gives post-op ointments to patients to minimize the appearance of marks.
Chest Hair Transplant
The chest is the second most common area used for body hair extraction. But the chest hair must meet certain criteria to be considered a good donor area, such as:
- Length of the hair on the chest
- Density of chest hair
- Thickness of hair.
If the hair on the chest is fine and not too long, it won’t fit into the category of a good donor area, and the surgeon does not attempt to extract hair from there. With the advancements in body hair transplant, the hair surgeon can provide full coverage to even grade 6 androgenetic alopecia cases and can take anywhere between 5,000 to 8,000 grafts and 1500 to 3000 grafts from the beard area(varies from person to person). Large parts of bald areas can be covered by mixing two donor areas.
What Happens During Body Hair Transplant Procedure?
Dr. Urvashi Chandra is known for performing the best body hair transplant procedure in Delhi. The steps of the body hair transplant procedure are as follows:
- The hair transplant surgeon marks the area to be implanted on the scalp. The donor areas, i.e., the beard or chest, are marked from where hair will be extracted.
- The patient is asked to lie down with face up and neck to be hyperextended.
- The patient is then administered local anesthesia in the beard area.
- After this, the grafts are extracted using ultra-fine thin, sharp punches, and the surgeon sorts the grafts immediately.
- The surgeon then extracts grafts from the scalp donor, and implantation is done.
- The surgeon mixes beard and scalp grafts and implants them in the scalp.
- Only the scalp grafts are used in the hairline to get a natural appearance.
- The implanted area is kept open, and the donor area is bandaged.
Is Body Hair Transplant a Successful Procedure?
Beard hair survival is high and has excellent coverage, whereas chest hair has a good survival rate of 70%. Other areas, such as leg hair or hair on arms, do not prove to be good donor areas as the hair quality and survival rate are very poor.
What is the Cost of a Body Hair Transplant?
The cost of body hair transplant surgery is determined by the number of grafts required, which varies from person to person depending upon the grade of baldness. To know about Body Hair Transplant Cost in Delhi, consult the hair experts at Chandra Clinic.
About the Surgeon
Dr. Urvashi Chandra is considered the best hair transplant doctor in Delhi. She is extremely passionate about her work and has been performing hair transplants for the last 13 years. She always suggests treatments that give maximum results to the patient and advises a hair transplant surgery when medications and GFC therapy will not work. One can also avail the benefits of other procedures such as beard reconstruction, eyebrow reconstruction, laser helmet, hair fall treatment, GFC therapy, and many more at Chandra Clinic, one of the best and leading hair transplant clinics in Delhi.
Pay a visit today at Chandra Clinic, the best hair transplant clinic in India, to learn more about these amazing procedures and to avail their benefits. Book an appointment today!
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