michael barry
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Ive looked into this pretty extensively over the past couple of years.
Circumferentially our body hair isnt as big as our head hair. One head hair can be 2-4 times as wide as a body hair. Usually more like 4 if its a big-donor area follicle. The Korean Study found that hair does NOT change its VOLUME when transplanted. The size of the shafts wont automatically get larger. Minoxidil, copper peptides, proanthocyandins, keratinocyte growth factors, caffeine might make the hair a bit thicker by speeding up keratinocyte cell division as the hairs grow outward from the papilla, thus making them a bit bigger. No real-world study has been done on this, but a few of the body hair transplant guys have claimed success with topical minoxidil to make the body hair look more like head hair.
Body hair will usually change its growth phases in length to match that of the head just like head hair will shorten its growth phases length to match whatever part of the body you move it to. There has been an eight year Korean study that validated this. Colin Jahoda moved a head hair to his then wife, Amanda Reynolds, arm years ago. She had a short fat black hair (his hair was black, now grey) amongst her blond arm hairs.
Waviness is also a potential problem...............if your body hair is straight, you might be OK, but what if its curly? Curly hair has been shown to be a result of the hair's root's shape by L'Oreal. This is not specualtion, its been proven. So you would have to use a chemical straigtener on it for th rest of your life.
Scarring in the donor area is also a possibility. Ive seen some bad ones that were performed a few years back. The docs that do alot of this work are getting better at it, using tinier and tinier needles, and closing the wounds with chemical solutions so healing can begin very quickly after extracting the body hairs, resulting in less scars. However, if youre a rather dark-skinned person..........I wouldn't risk having a bunch of white-scar polka dots all over my chest. I suppose you could try to tatoo the damage later, but that opens up another can of worms.
The best body hair idea Ive seen is Dr. Cole's. He FUE's out your donor hair from the back of your head, and has antoher Doctor extracting body hairs from your leg to put right in the old FUE hole he just made. Thus he moves body hair to your donor area of your head and your head hair up front.
My own personal idea about body hair is that its best to use to fill in old donor scars and possibly to treat side recession since hairs on the side's of your head arent as big and fat as the ones on top. Getting a small procedure to test it on yourself might be a good idea first however. Not everyone has the same signalling environments in their skin, and may or may not see their body hair really take on head hair characterstics. In cases where men have repair transplants body hair might add some volume when transplanted along with head hair when a guy is running out of head hair. As Dr. Woods has observed, "scalp hair is still the king". I do have one idea of my own about body hair that Ive not run by any docs and it is this.....................back to the future, use body hair in the old micro-mini fashion. Make a recipeint hole, and shove about 3-5 body hairs down in it. This will give the hair an appearance of more volume. They can only put recipeint sites a certain distance from each other. This would be an attempt to get as much hair in that space as possible. Follicualr units of head hair is the best way to go, but this may add the necessary volume to make body hair look acceptable.
All this being said, I'd advise no one to do body hair unless its to fill in a zip scar or in a repair case where donor hair is about run out. I'd treat my hair and wait for HM or Curis or whatever development is on the horizon with propecia, a copper peptide product of your choice, nizoral every few days and wait...........................
Circumferentially our body hair isnt as big as our head hair. One head hair can be 2-4 times as wide as a body hair. Usually more like 4 if its a big-donor area follicle. The Korean Study found that hair does NOT change its VOLUME when transplanted. The size of the shafts wont automatically get larger. Minoxidil, copper peptides, proanthocyandins, keratinocyte growth factors, caffeine might make the hair a bit thicker by speeding up keratinocyte cell division as the hairs grow outward from the papilla, thus making them a bit bigger. No real-world study has been done on this, but a few of the body hair transplant guys have claimed success with topical minoxidil to make the body hair look more like head hair.
Body hair will usually change its growth phases in length to match that of the head just like head hair will shorten its growth phases length to match whatever part of the body you move it to. There has been an eight year Korean study that validated this. Colin Jahoda moved a head hair to his then wife, Amanda Reynolds, arm years ago. She had a short fat black hair (his hair was black, now grey) amongst her blond arm hairs.
Waviness is also a potential problem...............if your body hair is straight, you might be OK, but what if its curly? Curly hair has been shown to be a result of the hair's root's shape by L'Oreal. This is not specualtion, its been proven. So you would have to use a chemical straigtener on it for th rest of your life.
Scarring in the donor area is also a possibility. Ive seen some bad ones that were performed a few years back. The docs that do alot of this work are getting better at it, using tinier and tinier needles, and closing the wounds with chemical solutions so healing can begin very quickly after extracting the body hairs, resulting in less scars. However, if youre a rather dark-skinned person..........I wouldn't risk having a bunch of white-scar polka dots all over my chest. I suppose you could try to tatoo the damage later, but that opens up another can of worms.
The best body hair idea Ive seen is Dr. Cole's. He FUE's out your donor hair from the back of your head, and has antoher Doctor extracting body hairs from your leg to put right in the old FUE hole he just made. Thus he moves body hair to your donor area of your head and your head hair up front.
My own personal idea about body hair is that its best to use to fill in old donor scars and possibly to treat side recession since hairs on the side's of your head arent as big and fat as the ones on top. Getting a small procedure to test it on yourself might be a good idea first however. Not everyone has the same signalling environments in their skin, and may or may not see their body hair really take on head hair characterstics. In cases where men have repair transplants body hair might add some volume when transplanted along with head hair when a guy is running out of head hair. As Dr. Woods has observed, "scalp hair is still the king". I do have one idea of my own about body hair that Ive not run by any docs and it is this.....................back to the future, use body hair in the old micro-mini fashion. Make a recipeint hole, and shove about 3-5 body hairs down in it. This will give the hair an appearance of more volume. They can only put recipeint sites a certain distance from each other. This would be an attempt to get as much hair in that space as possible. Follicualr units of head hair is the best way to go, but this may add the necessary volume to make body hair look acceptable.
All this being said, I'd advise no one to do body hair unless its to fill in a zip scar or in a repair case where donor hair is about run out. I'd treat my hair and wait for HM or Curis or whatever development is on the horizon with propecia, a copper peptide product of your choice, nizoral every few days and wait...........................