Body Hair Transplant
Body hair can be used to treat severe baldness. The beard and chest are good supply areas for BHT – Body Hair Transplant method. For people with extensive baldness, or a limited doner supply, the state-of-the-art method FUE – Follicular Unit Extraction offers an additional way to harvest hair follicles from different parts of the human body. When used in combination, BHT – FUE techniques have demonstrated an improved appearance in scalp hair transplants.
Old fashioned strip-surgeries. known as FUT – Follicular Unit Transplant, require the extraction of a limited part of the skin associated with the hair follicle. This strip is harvested from the horseshoe-shaped wreath of hair on the scalp. FUT surgery can be more painful, leaving greater unsightly scarring than FUE surgeries. BHT and FUE makes it possible to select grafts from larger areas of the body, minimising discomfort and scarring.
When Can Body Hair Be Used?
Body hair is found over a wide area of the human body. Male patients with severe baldness usually benefit from transplants involving body hair, including beard hair. A body hair transplant can help to supplement a transplant that contains hair from the scalp and beard.
Beard hair is most closely related to scalp hair in texture and structure. However, is not suitable to be harvested using strip surgeries because of the disfigurement by unacceptable scarring. Body hair in other areas is slightly different in patterning and calibre to beard or scalp hair, and a wider area of harvesting is required for scalp transplant. However, combined BHT – FUE methods allows for the precise matching of follicles over large areas, with no scarring.
The physicians of the Hairline Clinic want to achieve a satisfactory result with each of their candidates. Successful results that rely on the sole use of body hair as the transplant medium for extensive baldness are very rare. BHT will performed when our doctors have evaluated the unique hair conditions of the scalp of each patient. BHT can be performed as a repair for patients with a low growing yield, or to correct a failed transplant. For numerous patients, especially those with limited donor supply, BHT remains the only solution to regain their hair growth.
How Is Body Hair Extracted?
Achieving a higher density of hair strands is one of the main purposes for the use of BHT techniques. This method can be used to provide a higher yield to the crown, medium scalp area, or receding hairline. Beard hair from below the chin is the preferred area for transplanting to the scalp. The hair strands from the beard are strong and robust, which enhances the outcome for a successful transplant. A chest hair transplant may also be possible, and there have been many successful results using this method.
Like in FUE method, the body hair transplant (BHT) grafts are extracted with help of special BHT punches, patented by the Hairline Clinic. Owing to a very small diameter of the sharp punch needles (0.6mm – 0.7mm), and a precise extraction technique, no visible scars will be left in the identified doner area.
Unfortunately, most body hair grows in grafts with a single hair in each follicle. To achieve visually satisfying results, a higher yield of follicles is needed over large areas of the body. Consequently, BHT is often performed in combination with a traditional hair transplant. A doctor will carry out a personal investigation to determine the appropriate type and area of hair transplant method for you.
Although the growth rate of the hair transplanted from the body is not as high as that of the hair transplanted by the FUE head hair transplant method, it stays within quite satisfactory limits of 60-95 %. The results achieved with a beard hair transplant can be as good as using an existing head hair supply.
Does This Transplant Affect Scarring?
The body hair transplant method is suitable for transplanting hair into scars from a previous strip hair transplant surgery. It can also be used as a viable option for hairline reconstruction after harmful accidents. Recent transplants have shown excellent results. By achieving a natural and aesthetically pleasing look, they have helped the patient regain their personal self-esteem.
Our physicians at the Hairline Clinic have more than 15 years of experience with the BHT method. They consistently achieve the best results in patients whose traditional donor hair supply is depleted. The success of the transplant will depend on the natural healing conditions of the patient’s skin.
How Much Does This Procedure Cost?
By international standards, the regular cost for hair restoration can be more expensive than initially thought. However, other clinics justify overpriced procedures through the advertisement of famous faces, whilst performing sub-standard surgeries. At the Hairline clinic you will find fair prices and pleasing outcomes, without the surprising hidden rates.
The rates for BHT (body hair transplant) are 2.70 € per graft at the HLC.
You can find out more about our Hair Transplant cost here.
BHT transplant is a sensitive procedure, requiring careful handling of the follicles. Both the extraction angle and the location of available grafts vary in body hair. Consequently, the hair surgeon will have to adjust the punch settings to ensure a successful extraction of the grafts. For every experienced hair surgeon BHT is considerably more labour-intensive, as it asks for more delicacy over a larger area than with scalp hair transplants.
Consequently, BHT is a more time- consuming procedure, and more labour intensive than a regular scalp hair transplant. The price-gap between scalp versus body hair transplants is accepted within the industry across the world.
At the HLC, we consider ourselves a clinic that supports people to ease the distress caused by hair loss. It is incompatible with our ethical standards to impose higher costs on those patients depending on BHT. Despite many years of experience with BHT, a satisfying result may not always be ensured. For this reason, the HLC does not charge any higher prices for Body Hair Transplant (BHT) performed via FUE than for regular scalp-hair transplants. The HLC has made it their mission to maintain high professional standards, without extortionately profiting from your hair loss misfortune.
