Beard transplant (facial hair transplant) Sessions and pricing

Is your patchy or non-existent beard making you feel self conscious? If you want to get a full beard at last, a beard transplant is a very good solution.

The beard transplant technique

In the same manner as for hair transplants, beard transplants adopt a process that involves taking hair from an area where it perpetually grows back and grafting it where the patient suffers from a lack of hair. Whether the transplant is going to be applied on the head or the beard, the hair is removed from the same area: the nape of the neck. And when re-implanted, the hair developing in this area will never fall out.

Here, the FUE, or Follicular Unit Extraction, method is used. This is a completely manual technique of removing the graft. Even if this procedure takes longer, FUE has the advantage of not leaving a scar. However, the ARTAS robot will shorten the time the extraction takes.

The stages of a beard transplant

The beard transplant method requires several stages: the removal of the graft, designing the new beard, and re-implanting the graft hairs which will be the new parts of the beard.

First the patient must have the back of their head shaved at the nape of the neck, so that the hair follicles can be more easily removed and re-implanted into the beard. The surgeon will then extract the hairs one by one. It should be mentioned that these hairs and beard hairs are very similar. In this way, the hair inserted and the hair of the beard would behave in the same way in terms of how quickly it grows.

The doctor will then design the patient's new beard after obtaining the approval and determining the amount of graft hair available. Some people want a very straight line along the cheeks, while others want a more rounded look. Every patient will have the beard of his dreams.

The hair is manually implanted in the beard. The practitioner and their team will use a needle to insert the hair. The implantation should take into consideration the direction and space between the hairs to create a beautiful beard that is tailored to the face shape.

All you need to know about the beard transplant procedure: duration, anaesthetic, hospitalisation

Hair transplant operations take quite a long time. This is because it involves manually removing thousands of hair follicles from the neck nape and placing them into the beard. The beard implantation treatment is performed under local anaesthetics. The patient is not going to feel any tingling. The procedure is an outpatient procedure (no need to spend the night at the clinic), and can last between two and three hours.

Beard transplant: what results can you expect?

The first beard hair growth will take place between three and four months after the procedure. The result of the beard transplant is apparent after six months and is final after one year. The beard hairs will then be denser, better distributed and their design will be regular and tailored to your appearance.

You may change your look according to your desires by playing with the length or shape of your beard. You can shave it, too. There will be no scars. This means that you can shave your beard without thinking about it. Increasing how much you shave will also be advantageous for your beard. Indeed, the hair will become thicker the more you shave.

The hairs also have a protective action. As a result, they reduce sunburn and premature facial aging.