Confused By The Different Hair Transplant Techniques Being Offered - Is There One Gold Standard?

I’ve been researching hair transplantation online and I’ve become very confused. It seems that a lot of doctors have developed their own techniques and claim they are unique. I’m reading about FUE, FUT, FIT, BHT, follicular unit grafting, follicular unit coupling, megasessions, dense packing, lunch time FUE and the list seems to go on. Is there one gold standard for hair transplantation? - Markus
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Dear Markus,

Funny you should ask!

This is an excellent question so thank you for taking the time to write. For a very long time, few surgeons specialized in hair transplantation, and those surgeons worked to refine the techniques for naturalness, aesthetic appeal, obtaining grafts, decreasing scar formation, etc. Often, surgeons would come up with similar techniques and name it themselves - hence the proliferation of multiple monikers for essentially the same thing. Now that the internet has provided a nationwide (and, indeed, worldwide) forum for this procedure, all the different names get tossed in the same pot of information - and it is up to the consumer to sift through it! This is no easy task, and even I sometimes have trouble keeping track. Read more

Body Hair Transplants - Is This Really Possible?

Six years years ago I had two hair transplants that did not go well. I was referred to my hair transplant surgeon by my Dermatologist here in New York, so I thought that I was making an informed decision. After seeing some of the results on your website I can see that I made a big mistake.

The doctor transplanted a total of 900 hair grafts to the front portion of my scalp. It looked OK when I had more hair but now that I’ve lost so much more hair the plugs look very bad. People are always looking at my hair line when I speak to them, it’s made me very self conscious.

I read on the internet that they are now doing body hair transplants. This would be perfect for me since I have way too much chest and back hair. I thought perhaps I could kill two birds with one stone my moving my unwanted body hair to my head where I need it. Is this really possible? And does the transplanted hair look like head hair when it grows in?

Yes, there are people on the internet claiming to perform body hair transplants, but the sad truth is that to date not a single clinic has posted cosmetically consistent results. Not one. Read more