Natural Looking Hairline Restoration Results With Leg Hair Grafts
The hairline creates a frame for the face.
Its position and the way it is shaped can profoundly affect how an individual looks.
This is clearly evident when viewing pictures of a person, before and after their hair loss or their hair transplant procedure.
During face to face interactions, it is possible for another person to notice the edge of the hairline.
Natural hairlines have fine hairs along the outer border.
And the hair becomes thicker towards the back.
But if the hair looks too thick for the front and forms a very neat and immaculate contour, it can appear to be very contrived and indicative that the individual has had a hair restoration surgery.
The Importance of Choosing Different Hair Thicknesses For Donor Grafts In order for a hair transplant to be successful, numerous details need to be addressed.
This includes:
In some parts of the head, hair grows thicker than in others.
Selecting the appropriate graft calibers is therefore essential for creating the most natural looking results possible.
Since hairlines are highly visible it is worth the effort to recreate the natural progression of hair thickness.
Leg Hair For Hairlines It is common for many doctors to extract nape hair to approximate the fineness of the outer hairs which border the hairline.
However leg hair is even thinner.
Therefore it is an even more ideal match for this very detail.
In February of 2012, JAMA Dermatology published an observational study called The Transplanted Hairline, Leg Room for Improvement.
Three subjects had undergone hairline transplantation where follicles were taken from the legs and inserted along the outer border.
At the third year and fourth year, these individuals still showed signs of having well defined hairlines, with the leg hair still in tact.
This shows that hair taken from the legs will last long term, provided that no damage was inflicted on these follicles while they were extracted and stored prior to being inserted into the hairline.
The Extraction of Leg Hair If the patient has sufficient leg hair of the right thickness, these can be used as grafts for hairline refinement.
However, the surgeon would need to have specialized Advanced Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE)punches in order to harvest them.
Like other forms of body hair, leg hair grows at sharp angles.
This makes them likely to be damaged by regular FUE punches whose design is most suitable for follicles that grow at about ninety degrees.
Also, the legs have far less hair density compared to the scalp.
Any scars which result from standard punches would be highly visible.
Advanced FUE tools for body hair extractions would need to have features that create wound shapes designed to minimize the appearance of extraneous tissue.
While scars are inevitable in hair transplant procedures, this level of specialization would help make them as cosmetically insignificant as possible.
The results of a hairline restoration procedure would also require detailed insertions by the surgeon to recreate natural growth patterns and the best aesthetic results.
Its position and the way it is shaped can profoundly affect how an individual looks.
This is clearly evident when viewing pictures of a person, before and after their hair loss or their hair transplant procedure.
During face to face interactions, it is possible for another person to notice the edge of the hairline.
Natural hairlines have fine hairs along the outer border.
And the hair becomes thicker towards the back.
But if the hair looks too thick for the front and forms a very neat and immaculate contour, it can appear to be very contrived and indicative that the individual has had a hair restoration surgery.
The Importance of Choosing Different Hair Thicknesses For Donor Grafts In order for a hair transplant to be successful, numerous details need to be addressed.
This includes:
- Quantity and quality of the extractions
- How the grafts are handled and stored
- Aesthetics of the hairline and temples
- Insertions of the grafts according to natural hair growth patterns
In some parts of the head, hair grows thicker than in others.
Selecting the appropriate graft calibers is therefore essential for creating the most natural looking results possible.
Since hairlines are highly visible it is worth the effort to recreate the natural progression of hair thickness.
Leg Hair For Hairlines It is common for many doctors to extract nape hair to approximate the fineness of the outer hairs which border the hairline.
However leg hair is even thinner.
Therefore it is an even more ideal match for this very detail.
In February of 2012, JAMA Dermatology published an observational study called The Transplanted Hairline, Leg Room for Improvement.
Three subjects had undergone hairline transplantation where follicles were taken from the legs and inserted along the outer border.
At the third year and fourth year, these individuals still showed signs of having well defined hairlines, with the leg hair still in tact.
This shows that hair taken from the legs will last long term, provided that no damage was inflicted on these follicles while they were extracted and stored prior to being inserted into the hairline.
The Extraction of Leg Hair If the patient has sufficient leg hair of the right thickness, these can be used as grafts for hairline refinement.
However, the surgeon would need to have specialized Advanced Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE)punches in order to harvest them.
Like other forms of body hair, leg hair grows at sharp angles.
This makes them likely to be damaged by regular FUE punches whose design is most suitable for follicles that grow at about ninety degrees.
Also, the legs have far less hair density compared to the scalp.
Any scars which result from standard punches would be highly visible.
Advanced FUE tools for body hair extractions would need to have features that create wound shapes designed to minimize the appearance of extraneous tissue.
While scars are inevitable in hair transplant procedures, this level of specialization would help make them as cosmetically insignificant as possible.
The results of a hairline restoration procedure would also require detailed insertions by the surgeon to recreate natural growth patterns and the best aesthetic results.