Hair Growth in Subcutaneously Buried Composite Hair-Bearing Skin Grafts

Abstract

In earlier reports about buried dermal grafts the hair follicles have been reported to disappear in two months. However, if hair-bearing (terminal hair, not vellus hair) skin grafts with subdermal fat including the deepest follicles are buried under the dermis of the scalp they continue to grow hair up to a year or more to a hair length of over 10 cm.