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Hair restoration using chest hair micrografts The hair transplant technique is governed by the dictum of ‘donor dominance’ which suggests that hair from any part of the body can grow in any other part of the body when transplanted just as it grows at its site of origin. This theory put forth by Dr. Norman Orentriech in 1959 was the very basis of the hair transplant technique revolution until it was challenged by Dr. Hwang and his colleagues in 2002. They proved that the donor dominance theory was not totally correct and that the hair growth was greatly influenced by the recipient site anatomy and physiology. There is a case study involving transplantation of hair from
the chest of a 65 year old man who had scalp hair loss and scarring
due to poor hair transplants he had undergone about 20 years previously.
Drs. Ray Woods and Angelina Woods Campbell have successfully grafted
about 1500 grafts harvested from his chest region and enlightened
hair surgeons to an alternate donor region for hair follicles.
They have formulated a technique called the micro single follicular
unit extraction in which individual follicular grafts are harvested
to minimize donor site scarring and can then be used to correct
poor hair transplants. The donor site can be the conventional
scalp area or from the temple, nape, chest, abdomen and/or back. This method suggests a way to overcome non availability of donor hair when there is considerable hair loss and the conventional donor site, the scalp regions, do not have adequate hair density for cosmetic reconstruction and correction.
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