Hi,
Does anyone know if it's possible to use hair from the chest/abs as the donar hair ?

Yes, if all your donor is depleted, some doctors can do body hair donor-- Dr. Woods in Syndey is one who does this as well as 2 other in the US-- not for sure who they are-- research it.

Dr.Arvind Poswal, New Delhi does the body hair transplant.
I think he has the maximum number of body hair transplants to date.
I am scheduled for June with him.

YUP he does do a lot of BHT...i have just gotten a HT with him... 7th of this month to be precise...

Switch,
Did you get body hair done from Dr.A.
Can you tell me your experience?
It will be great help to reduce the fluttering of the butterflies in my stomach.

Omar,

Have you had prior open-donor procedures or strip and lack donor in the scalp? If so, then BHTs may be your answer although I believe in utilizing scalp donor before going to the body for the obvious reasons.

Most of the clinical research and findings for BHTs utilized the chest area. Dr. Woods in particular found that chest hair follicules transplanted to the scalp resulted in longer growth than their original virgin area. The reverse also was true whereby planting scalp follicules to the chest did not grow as long. The resting phase appears longer with BH follicules and the resulting new growth can take as long as 18 months to manifest.

Switch,

Just read your other thread and glad to hear everything went well. Possibly you can post some before and after pics if possible? Happy growth!

Gil,
Can u point me to this other thread of Switch.

Nile,

It's under Hair Transplant Experiences section and the thread was "Got my HT".