Dr U Addresses Body Hair Transplant Surgery Scarring Question: A UGraft body hair transplant procedure offers the ability to expand upon the donor supply of follicles. This is done by removing grafts from other areas of the body, besides the head. Examples include:

Face and neck (i.e. beard areas)
Arms
Legs
Back
Chest
Abdomen

Through the acquisition of additional grafts, it is then possible to enhance the coverage that is possible for the patient.

The ability to harvest a greater number of grafts through a body hair transplant

is the most obvious benefit to this form of surgery. However, those who are interested in undergoing body hair transplant need to also consider the issue of scarring.

Body Hair Transplant Surgery Scarring Question: Why Would Scarring It Occur?

Although scars are surely unwanted after any type of surgery, they are not indicative of mistakes but rather the body’s own healing process.

Scar tissue is produced when the dermis has been damaged. Immediately afterwards, inflammation occurs which leads to the formation of blood clots. This is followed by the epithelization phase where the epidermis regenerates. The wound then contracts. And collagen is produced by fibroblast cells in an effort to mend the broken skin.

Raised scars are produced when excess amounts of collagen are deposited.

Scarring will occur after strip surgery and even Follicular Unit Extraction. However, these manifestations are hidden by hair. Yet, this issue is of particular concern after body hair transplant procedures. The donor areas that are used for these operations are far more open and visible. Therefore, scars are not easily hidden by hair.

In many cases, thousands of grafts are removed. And the appearance of numerous scars would surely be undesirable.

Body Hair Transplant Surgery Scarring Question : Minimizing the Appearance of Scars

While nothing can be done to stopping the scarring process, it is quite possible to minimize the appearance of excess tissue on the skin’s surface. This objective helped lead the design and engineering of Dermhair Clinic’s uGraft technology.

The punch edges are customized with digital software to create specifically shaped wound cavities that are inverted at the very bottom.

This specific configuration facilitates wound closure that leaves the skin’s surface flat as extraneous wound tissue is directed below the skin.

Body hair transplant procedures performed with uGraft allow patients to have more peace of mind in knowing that much higher wound healing standards are enabled as scars are made to be as cosmetically insignificant as possible.