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Originally Posted by baldozer
I assume that a NW7 must still have at least 15000 follicular units, from which 6000 could be extracted for transplantation. A NW2 has around 40,000 follicular units overall, or around 80,000 hair. So a NW7 needs 25,000 FUs to become a NW2. However, it is well known that even 50% of density is enough to give an illusion of a full head of hair. Therefore, I think 13000 FUs would be enough, and if you don't bother about the crown, then even 10,000 would be quite good.
So I think a NW7 can be restored to a NW2 by the combination of scalp and beard hair, let us say 6000 scalp and 4000 beard hair. The surgeon could place more beard hair in areas where hair quality doesn't matter that much, like corners of the head and temporal peaks, and the area on top which is farther from the hairline.
What do you think. Is such kind of a procedure viable?
I think you are right and that you would need to hide the beard hair as i had a 3 month beard once. Besides making me look like a neanderthal/terrorist , i noticed that beard hair is totally different than scalp hair. 1) at 3 months it was plenty long enough to comb it yet even doing so it would try to curl up or at least be wavey and my scalp hair is straight. 2) Texture- beard hair is much thicker/courser than scalp hair. This might be a good thing for density but if you could see it, it might be noticeable contrast. 3) Color- don't understand this one, but even the color was off. Scalp hair is brown, but beard had red tint to it.
If a dr could work around this, then it could work as you would get a lot of thick hair in return. Plus not having to shave would be a nice bonus.
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