Transplanting Hair Where?
Mention hair transplants and most people will assume you’re talking about transplanting hair onto the scalp. And while that is still the most common location for hair transplants, according to this article from MSNBC, hair transplant procedures are now taking place all over the body.
These days doctors can harvest and replant hair follicles pretty much anywhere. Scalp transplants remain the most common, accounting for 93,000 of the nearly 99,000 surgical hair restoration procedures that took place in the United States in 2008.
Second most common was eyebrow transplants, followed by moustache and beard procedures, and eyelashes.
As for the most ‘unique’ hair transplant procedure, that would have to be the pubic hair transplant performed Dr. Paul T. Rose, former president of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) and founder of a hair restoration clinic in Tampa Bay, Florida. He managed to take hair from the back of the patients head and relocate it to his pubic area where he had scarring and lose of hair.
Sounds much easier that it probably was.
