Hair Transplant | Body Hair Transplantation
Dr. Woods & Dr. Campbell Woods
For the first time in hair transplant surgery history, body hair transplantation (BHT) was validated in mainstream medical journal. In December 2004, the world’s first body hair transplant study was published in the highly respected British Journal of Plastic Surgery, now available at universities throughout U.S, Canada and various parts of the world. This is by far the biggest advancement in surgical hair restoration procedure in recent years. Individuals with extensive thinning and limited donor hair may now be blessed with a second chance for a full head of hair again if they have sufficient body hair, thanks to Dr. Woods and Dr. Campbell Woods for pioneering yet another world’s first in hair transplantation.
The Significance of Body Hair Transplantation
| Transplanting body hair to scalp has been a topic of interest for years. Traditional hair transplantation relies exclusively on donor hair from the back of the patient’s head (see picture below). | ||
| Individuals with depleted or insufficient donor hair are rarely considered as candidates for hair transplants. Being able to tap into body hair as a donor source for hair transplantation would certainly open the doors to thousands who would otherwise not be able to consider hair transplant as an option. |
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The Study by Dr. Woods & Dr. Campbell Woods
This is the first time ever the work of a FUE hair transplant doctor was legitimized by the highly respected medical journal. The study was done on a 65-year old whose pictures were previously featured in HairSite under the name Justin. Justin suffered from severe scalp scarring as a result of bad hair transplant complications about 20 years ago. See photo below. This case is beyond repair under traditional method of hair transplantation.
Before photo – patient with severe scarring
white spots and red pigmentation
More BEFORE pictures of Justin
Notice the severe scarring (white spots) on Justin’s scalp
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Under careful examination by Dr. Woods & Dr. Campbell Woods, a decision was made to extract 500 grafts from Justin’s temples and nape areas to recreate 1 cm of the frontal hairline. That was just the beginning. The most exciting part of the surgery came from harvesting 1500 body hair grafts and transplanting to the patient’s scalp in order to camouflage the badly scarred area. The whole repair procedure was undertaken over 4 sessions starting in December 2000. The patient received a total of 2000 grafts comprising of 1500 body hairs and 500 head hairs. This is the first time a full fledge study was conducted on a hair transplant patient to document the characteristics of hairs transplanted to anatomically different regions of the body, in this case from the chest to the scalp.
The Method
Dr. Woods and Dr. Campbell Woods are widely recognized for revolutionizing the hair transplant industry with their Follicular SINGLE Unit Extraction (FSUE) technique. They are commonly referred to as the gold standard in single follicular unit extraction. 100% micro-surgical, no stitches, no trauma. The following is an excerpt from the British Journal of Plastic Surgery about The Woods Technique:
| “The method of microsurgical single follicular unit extraction is a unique procedure for the removal of individual follicular grafts of hair for transplantation. It was developed to address 2-fold issues that can occur with common hair transplantation techniques: 1) Donor site scarring and graft wastage from ’strip excision’ for graft removal; and 2) Unnatural tufting that occurs when more than one follicle is transplanted into one site on the scalp. Permanent scalp donor hair may be used, as well as temple, nape, chest, abdomen and back hair and each individual follicular graft is removed intact without damage to the neighbouring hair.” |
Results
As reported in the British Journal of Plastic Surgery, the grafts yielded over 90% survival rate in the recipient’s site of the patient. Excellent cosmetic results were achieved. The chest hairs that were measured to be between 3.5 and 5 cm prior to transplant were subsequently measured at 15 cm long 18 months post op. With respect to the characteristics of hairs transplanted to anatomically different regions of the body, here’s what the Journal reported: “obvious growth of the transplanted follicular units was evident by 6 months and the transplanted chest hair was indistinguishable to the naked eye from this patient’s normal wavy scalp hair.”
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