Hair transplantation is a
surgical technique that moves individual
hair follicles from a part of the body called the 'donor site' to a bald or balding part of the body known as the 'recipient site'. It is primarily used to treat
male pattern baldness. In this minimally invasive procedure, grafts containing hair follicles that are genetically resistant to balding, (like the back of the head) are transplanted to the bald scalp. Hair transplantation can also be used to restore
eyelashes,
eyebrows, beard hair, chest hair, pubic hair and to fill in scars caused by accidents or surgery such as face-lifts and previous hair transplants. Hair transplantation differs from
skin grafting in that grafts contain almost all of the
epidermis and
dermis surrounding the hair follicle, and many tiny grafts are transplanted rather than a single strip of skin.