Donor Site Reharvesting in Patients Whose Donor Sites Appear Exhausted

Abstract

With the advent of improved aesthetic hair restoration surgery using minigrafts and micrografts, many patients whose work had been previously done over the last 30 years have returned to the surgeon to see if more transplants could be done. Many such patients either felt or were told by the surgeon years ago that their donor sites were exhausted and that no further work could be done. This article discusses two methods of donor site reharvesting, punch reharvesting and strip reharvesting, that allow several more sessions of minigrafts and micrografts to be performed as well as aesthetic improvement in the patient's donor scars.