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06-25-2010, 10:01 AM
I have quite a lot of hair in my neckline. The hair is thick and straight, which makes me wonder whether it could be transplanted to my head. I have already had 1000 grafts via FUE, and I see the diffuse pattern from the FUE transplant whenever I trim my hair very close to the scalp. Using neck hair seems like a way to augment the donor pool, but I don’t know how receptive the scalp is to that type of hair and whether FUE performed on the neck would leave visible scarring. What do you think?
http://www.baldingforum.com/photos/neckhair.jpgNeck hair is not considered “permanent” like the hair on the back of your scalp. There is a chance that as you get older your neck hair will fall out, so if neck hairs were used for a hair transplant it would also fall out. This is what makes neck hair not ideal for transplantation.
In addition, as you clearly have found out, follicular unit extraction (http://www.newhair.com/fue) (FUE) still produces small round punctate scars. So if you have a FUE procedure to the hairs on your neck you will definitely see the same type of scarring, which would be more difficult to hide.
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http://www.baldingforum.com/photos/neckhair.jpgNeck hair is not considered “permanent” like the hair on the back of your scalp. There is a chance that as you get older your neck hair will fall out, so if neck hairs were used for a hair transplant it would also fall out. This is what makes neck hair not ideal for transplantation.
In addition, as you clearly have found out, follicular unit extraction (http://www.newhair.com/fue) (FUE) still produces small round punctate scars. So if you have a FUE procedure to the hairs on your neck you will definitely see the same type of scarring, which would be more difficult to hide.
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