East,West, and Southern Asian Hair Transplant Specifics

89 East, West, and Southern Asian Hair Transplant Specifics

Editor’s Note

Although Asian patients have typically been grouped together in one category because of certain common traits, there are also unique characteristics to each geographic area. This chapter will present those aspects particularly pertinent to hair transplant surgery in each Asian group in three sections.

Section Awill discuss East and Southeast Asia. East Asia is comprised primarily of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South, and North Korea. While Southeast Asia refers to Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore (1).

Section Bwill concentrate on South Asians, which refers to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, and Maldives.

Section Cwill primarily discuss West Asians, including Persian, Turkish, and Arabic patients. The data available for this region are more limited, but provide somewhat surprising information that impacts hair restoration in patients from this region.

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