Like any hair transplant scarring and graft survival are major issues, to make the effect of the extraction as minimal as possible to the eye and remove intact FU to preserve the state of the donor and maximise the yield in the recipient.

Beard hair especially is so prominent on the face that scarring would easily be noticeable, especially if clean shaven, and the last thing you want to do is leave someone scarred on the face and having to grow a beard to hide it, and that beard looks thin anyway because of the extractions. Chest hair for example if living an out door lifestyle again can be visible and the signs of small white dot scarring on the chest could be unsightly and hard to explain.

Different areas of the beard make extraction harder and easier, the laxity of the skin and bone structure in some areas will cause potentially high transection when trying to punch. So, to take all the beard although possible you have to ask at what cost. Dr. Bisanga generally will do a smaller beard session initially, make sure healing is good then increase the size of the session. Even so, space has to be left between each punch to “design” a natural looking beard still and not just leave patches of thick and thin hair, and different people, skin types heal better than others, some for example are more prone to keloid formation.

Smaller session seem to be the optimum way to go, healing is better, trauma to the skin and surrounding hairs minimised and yield improved; obviously this takes longer to gain the desired result, but as the result is the goal it must be prudent to go slower if required to achieve the best result possible, in the recipient and donor areas.

Good post admin