Question: Extracting Entire Donor for Shaved Back & Sides Look.

[ryan555]

Nothing is scarless. From what I have been told, pilofocus just creates a scar under the skin since the grafts are extracted from underneath. So while there is less visible scarring on the outer skin, scar tissue will build up under the dermis and can cause a lot of complication. You will never be able to seamlessly extract every hair from your donor region.

[Xoxo]

I actually like the idea. I have thought of the same with a mohawk. The problem is also you probably don't look like David Beckham with Photoshop. More like the guy in the Youtube video, where I personally don't like the hair cut very much. Of course, compared to a balding head, it might still look better. Maybe there is someone who has something like this done in (other) SMP forums. Would still be great to see.

[Jasari]

Nothing is scarless. From what I have been told, pilofocus just creates a scar under the skin since the grafts are extracted from underneath. So while there is less visible scarring on the outer skin, scar tissue will build up under the dermis and can cause a lot of complication. You will never be able to seamlessly extract every hair from your donor region.

For most cases I wouldn't suspect you would need to extract all the grafts. Currently I'm back to a Norwood 2, but I have had 4500 grafts done via FUE.

The idea actually came when I decided to razor shave for a year. Even with the FUE I can barely see the scars - I got a temporary SMP to fill in the blanks & it lasted 1.5 years before fading. It looked natural, but the all over shave look [For me at least] wasn't good.

It obviously wouldn't look as good as Becks; but there is most certainly potential for it to look natural.