BHT (or body hair transplant) is a variant of the FUE hair transplant. These body hairs are extracted from the chest, legs or beard through the FUE technique.
BHT is an excellent technique to use when no other solution is conceivable or when we want for example to treat a FUT scar without using classic hair grafts. We can also use BHT to soften a hair line thanks to these thin body hairs.
However, I am not keen on favouring BHT when the patient still has classic FUE grafts. BHT indeed has three major disadvantages in terms of cover: compared to head hair, body hairs are thinner, grow smaller and often contain only one hair per graft. For all these reasons, the “transferred mass” is often 3 to 5 times smaller if we compare a BHT graft to a classic FUE graft. Finally, the harvest of body hairs is often slow and difficult, and regrowth is harder than with classic FUE grafts.
This is why I recommend my patients to use BHT only when the indication is excellent.
For more details, please see our section dedicated to body hairs.