BHT Hair Transplant Repair For Disfigurements

Hair loss can be a devastating event in life. A more devastating event: entrusting the restoration of your hair to a surgeon who botches the procedure, disfiguring your scalp and leaving you worse off than you started.

BHT (Body Hair Transplantation) To The Rescue

This nightmare is not uncommon. Botched hair restoration surgeries occur due to procedures that are inherently flawed, inexperienced practitioners, or a combination of the two. A few surgeries that typically result in cosmetically unacceptable scarring include scalp reduction, flap surgery, and strip surgery. The former two are obsolete for the most part, outside of surgeries having to do with congenital birth defects. But strip surgery is yet considered the “traditional” method and remains a popular choice, despite the unavoidable fallout—a prominent and embarrassing strip scar.

However, even the gold standard of hair transplantation, follicular unit extraction (FUE), can go awry if the patient does not select his practitioner carefully.

Depending on the method, hair transplantation gone wrong can result in:

A depleted head donor pool due to excessive scarring.

• Cobblestoning, pitting, and ridging
• Pluggy hair
• The infamous strip scar, which can stretch over time
• A hairline that is unnaturally harsh
• Slot formation
• A scar on the anterior hairline

Strip scar from strip surgery.

Pluggy hair from punch grafting.

Slot formation from scalp reduction.

Unnatural hairline from flap surgery.

The marvelous advent of body hair transplantation, or BHT, gives us the option of hair transplant repair even beyond the exhaustion of all head donor hair.

How Does Hair Transplant Repair Using BHT Work?

People whose scarring, disfigurement, and/or baldness are so severe that they have no head donor hair are typically considered impractical candidates for hair transplant repair. Until the advent of hair cloning, they’d be lost and out of luck. Fortunately BHT has made the impossible possible in some of these patients, as consistently shown by the work of world leader in the field—Dr. Umar. Through his work with BHT, hope has been restored to many patients.

BHT incorporates the use of FUE, which is the extraction of follicular units one at a time from the donor area, for implantation into the balding recipient area. Since the follicles are being extracted in microscopic-size grafts (as opposed to, say, an entire strip of flesh), BHT enables grafts to be taken from the beard, chest, stomach, arms, and legs. In qualified patients, and with experienced doctors, BHT has vastly expanded the pool of donor follicles for hair transplant repair.

If you require a hair transplant repair using BHT, schedule a free online consultation with Dr. Umar of the DermHair Clinic. Dr. Umar is a board certified physician, hair transplant pioneer, and world leader of the BHT technique.