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area of baldness was extensive and required more hair than
was available in the depleted donor site. Despite this, Dr
Woods was still able to remove 1000 grafts from this area
using his Woods Technique of Follicular Relocation™.
After maximizing all the available amount of hair, Dr Woods
decided to try using his technique to extract hairs from the
chest and relocate them to the scalp. 1200 hairs were then
taken from the chest area and transplanted into the scalp.
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Pictures
taken of the patient's chest area weeks after the hairs
have been extracted. There is virtually no sign of any
scarring or trauma to the skin
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Dr
Woods and Campbell first performed the relocation of individual
chest hair follicular units into the scalp in 1998. Since that
time they have been refining the procedure and have performed
it successfully on several occasions. It has proved invaluable
for people who have severely depleted and damaged donor site
areas from previous traumatic hair transplant surgery, and who
wish to have increased hair coverage. Others require this chest
hair for correction of scars anywhere on the scalp.
Chest hair when transplanted to the scalp, is mainly used for
filling in and increasing the density between pre-existing or
transplanted hair. It can also be used in totally bald areas
but will only grow to it's genetically pre-determined length.
The hair can grow reasonably long and be trained by grooming
to grow in the direction of normal hair.
The advantages are that remarkable density can be achieved in
situations previously thought impossible due to regular donor
site inadequacy.
In cases where strip excision surgery can no longer be done
due to prior extensive damage and scarring from such surgery,
the Wood's technique of Follicular Relocation™ allows large
numbers of hair to still be transplanted from the back and sides
of the head. This is due to the microsurgical technique and
trauma minimalization. However, the utilization of chest hair
has provided even greater scope for density and wider coverage.
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transplanted chest hairs blend in well with the existing hairs
and are virtually indistinguishable from the scalp hairs.
These pictures were taken in September 2001, only 6 months after
the chest hair procedure and 8 months after the initial hair
transplantation procedure. |
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second angle shows the density that has been achieved in spite
of the limited amounts of available donor hair. |
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