@Bigmac, I shave very short, i.e to 1mm, so hard to monitor growth variation at that length but to touch over the years it does feel softer to my hand for sure.
@ Todd, good question. From personal experience and from the years of working with the clinic I have not seen healing issues and I have around 1400 beard take, and some have had far more, as in this patient here who wet shaved and showed photos also after few thousand taken over multiple surgeries.
I enclose his photos and link to case:-
wow that really is coming along nicely!.Its good to know people are having great results with beard hair :)
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The beard area does from my experience heal very fast and we shave and cut ourselves there and the body heals quickly and in my own case I wet shaved for many years after and met even users here on this forum to examine my beard etc.
One I met and I was very tanned and he didn't see a mark and actually on another forum documented that, that even with a tan I didn't myself have any signs of the surgery and I had extractions from above the jaw line also.
Different skin tones may vary in how they heal, so it is prudent to test first if there are doubts and go to the less visible areas, monitor and then review before committing to larger numbers, and we can start also under the chin area for that and get a good number usually.
But I can say in sincerity with all of the beard work we have done I have not had patients report healing issues apart from one only in the past 11 years and he had other issues that effected healing in general and not related to beard work per se.
Here I am at 6 days post beard hair taken.
And here with a wet shave after.