When Skin Grafts Grow Hair on the Tongue: An Unusual Side Effect of Cancer Reconstruction

It sounds unbelievable — even impossible — but some cancer patients who receive tongue reconstruction surgery actually begin growing hair inside their mouths. This happens when surgeons use a skin graft from an area of the body that still has active hair follicles. Once transplanted, those follicles don’t stop working… and the result is something most people can barely imagine… Continues…