Hair Transplants for Beards and Moustaches - Hair Transplant Areas
As hair transplant surgeries have become more refined, the demand for beard and moustache transplantation has risen. Many men find it difficult to grow thick and full facial hair. Transplantation can fill holes in the patient’s facial hair or create an even and thicker appearance.
During a beard or moustache transplant procedure, hair is taken from the scalp and carefully inserted into the facial hair region. It is a common misconception that body hair is thicker than head hair. For most men, body hair is too thin to be transplanted to the facial hair region. Hair transplanted from the scalp creates an extremely natural appearing beard or moustache.
Another reason head hair is preferred over facial hair is that it grows in smaller groupings. Body hair usually grows in groupings of two or three, but head and facial hair grow in groupings of one or two. Using hair from the scalp allows for more natural positioning and thickness of the facial hair.
During most facial hair transplant procedures, a strip of hair is removed from the back of the patient’s head. The donor site is then stitched closed, leaving a scar of approximately 1 millimetre in diameter.
The grafted hairs are inserted into the facial hair region through small incisions less than 1 millimetre in length. The hair is inserted in groupings of one or two and is positioned to compliment the natural growth of facial hair.
In carefully performed facial hair transplant procedures, there is no visible scarring and the grafted hairs cannot be distinguished from the naturally occurring ones. The scar in the donor area will be covered by hair. Unless the patient decides to shave the head, the scar will not be visible.
The donor area will need to be shaved in order to extract the follicles, which may lead to visible scars and cosmetic issues before the hair grows to cover the incision.
