INDORE: Influenced by Indian cricket players, youngster have started sporting beard since it has become a style statement. Youth, who can’t grow beard naturally, are going for hair transplant.Doctors said youth belonging to 20-25 years of age are usually the ones who opt for hair transplant for thick bread. Every year a hike of 30% in cases of hair transplant for beard is being reported in city, they claimed.The youngest patient, who went under beard hair transplant in the city, was 19-year-old. He wanted to sport thick beard just like his friends, a doctor said.“There are several people, who do not have long and thick beard, but to show their masculine and follow the trend they go for hair transplant in which their scalp hairs are used and transplanted in beard. Over 3000 hairs are transplanted to form a big and thick beard,” Dr Sajal Haldar said.Haldar said that people from Tibet and Nepal reach the city for hair transplant to make their eyebrows and moustache thick. “We use their scalp hairs to transplant them in moustache and chest hairs in eyebrows,” Dr Haldar said.He said people belong to north-eastern states and Tibetans have thin breads. They go for hair transplant in moustaches and eyebrows since beard transplant is expensive.Another cosmetologist Dr Asim Shahmalak , who lives in UK said, “Hair transplant service should be provided at government hospitals as well since with this the acid attack victims could be treated and their life could be made easy.”

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