Wed 20 Feb 2008
Body Hair Transplantation (BHT) presentation by Dr. Bob True
Category: FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction) , New Advances , Other Hair Surgeries
Transplanting hair from the body to the balding scalp, typically referred to as Body Hair Transplantation or BHT for short, has become a subject of intense interest to many hair transplant patients (especially those who are endowed with the body hair of hairy back gorilla).
Some hair transplant physicians have been experimenting with and studying the viability of such body to scalp hair transplants, including Coalition member Dr. Bob True in New York City.
Dr. True made an excellent presentation on this subject at the recent annual ISHRS (International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery) meeting in San Diego this October. He was kind enough to provide me with his presentation so that I could share highlights of his findings on our community.
View the photos from this body hair transplant presentation.
According to Dr. True, there are up to 5 million hair follicles on the body. The follicles vary widely in hair character and behavior with the hairs on the torso generally most similar to scalp hair. Some races have very little torso hair. It is rare for a woman of any race to have much torso hair.
He finds that there is a wide variance among men who do have torso hair and that for men torso hair increases to the sixth decade of life.
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