Artistic and aesthetic difficulties arise when transplanting an area such as the crown. It is a technically challenging area in which to appropriately place and orient recipient follicles, as the crown is characterized by a swirling pattern of hairs.
Experienced surgeons, who are artistically inclined, are better able to replicate these natural swirling patterns of the crown.Another major difficulty associated with transplanting in the crown is related to supply and demand. The potential size alone of the crown demands a lot of donor hair, which is limited in even the best hair transplant candidates.
There are two solutions to this problem:
The first involves transplanting to achieve a less dense result. Generally, the crown is the least seen part of the head. The area that is seen more, the hairline, is given the emphasis for density over the crown. By using 2 or 3 natural groupings of follicular units in the crown, good coverage can be achieved without using excessive donor hairs.
The second solution for the lack of donor hair coincides with the advent of the Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) technique. FUE allows for individual donor hairs to be extracted from anywhere on the body. As a result, body hair, i.e. chest hair, can be used in the crown area. Donor hair from the back of your head mixed with donor hair from the body together can provide adequate density in the crown area in order to achieve a natural look.