October 12, 2019
5 things to know about beard transplants
Growing a beard takes time, and for some men facial hair is naturally sparse or absent. Here is what to know about the procedure before considering it.
A growing number of men today follow the trend and wear a beard rather than shaving close. Growing a beard takes time, and for some men facial hair is naturally sparse or absent. In those cases, a transplant is a solution for those who want a beard. If you are considering a beard transplant, or a beard implant in Tunisia, here are several things worth knowing about the treatment.
The procedure is similar to a hair transplant
A beard transplant uses the FUE technique, which consists of harvesting hair from the back or the sides of the head. The hairs are chosen so as to match the characteristics of facial hair as closely as possible, and are implanted into areas of the face defined beforehand, to complete or entirely create the beard. A few differences from a scalp transplant should be noted: the follicular units chosen for the beard generally contain a single follicle, and it is sometimes necessary to harvest body hair to carry out the transplant.
A beard transplant can take a long time
This type of transplant lasts 2 to 5 hours depending on the area treated and on the beard density the patient wants.
The transplant is not limited to the beard alone
Transplantation can be used to create, complete or rebuild the moustache, the sideburns and the goatee. It is also an effective way of thickening a sparse beard or filling in bare patches. When filling in thinning areas, restoration specialists take care to implant the grafts at the same angle and in the same direction, so that the result is even.
A beard transplant is virtually painless
As with a hair transplant, the procedure is almost painless. The FUE transplant technique, used for most beard restoration, allows follicles to be harvested individually with careful selection. Removing a strip of scalp is no longer used by most specialists, hence the absence of pain associated with the surgery and with healing.
A permanent solution
One of the major advantages of a beard transplant, and of any hair restoration, is that the result is permanent. Even in men with some degree of hair loss, the hairs harvested to restore or complete the beard are ones naturally resistant to the mechanisms of hair loss, hence a permanent result which remains, all the same, subject to ageing (greying, thinning of the hair, and so on).
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