EYEBROW TRANSPLANT
EYEBROW TRANSPLANT
What Is An Eyebrow Transplant?
An eyebrow transplant is a type of hair transplant surgery to make your eyebrows fuller. Unlike other procedures that offer temporary solutions for thinning eyebrows, such as cosmetic applications, this is a permanent procedure.
What Is An Eyebrow Transplant?
What To Expect from an Eyebrow Transplant
A small piece of your scalp will be used to harvest healthy hair follicles, usually from above your ears. The hair follicles will be grafted to your eyebrows. After surgery, once your skin has healed, you will soon have fuller eyebrows, reducing the need to apply cosmetics to get the look you want. The recovery time is relatively fast, but it may take a few months to see results from an eyebrow transplant.
It takes up to 6 to 12 weeks before you’ll notice new hair growth out of the transplanted area. Most recipients of Eyebrow Transplants see good results within the first two years.
Please remember that these are general guidelines and some people may need less or more time for a full recovery. You should work directly with the plastic surgeon who completed your procedure for specific instructions.
What To Expect from an Eyebrow Transplant
A small piece of your scalp will be used to harvest healthy hair follicles, usually from above your ears. The hair follicles will be grafted to your eyebrows. After surgery, once your skin has healed, you will soon have fuller eyebrows, reducing the need to apply cosmetics to get the look you want. The recovery time is relatively fast, but it may take a few months to see results from an eyebrow transplant.
It takes up to 6 to 12 weeks before you’ll notice new hair growth out of the transplanted area. Most recipients of Eyebrow Transplants see good results within the first two years.
Please remember that these are general guidelines and some people may need less or more time for a full recovery. You should work directly with the plastic surgeon who completed your procedure for specific instructions.
Eyebrow Transplant Benefits
Eyebrow Transplant Benefits
An eyebrow transplant can enhance the appearance of your eyebrows with a complete restoration of over-plucked eyebrows. This procedure can also fill in Eyebrow Hair on areas that have been scarred, draw attention to your natural features, highlight your eyes, and define eyebrow shape for patients who naturally lack eyebrow hair.
Eyebrow Transplant Risks
Mild redness, swelling, crusting, or tiny scabs around each follicle should be expected wherever the hair grafts have been placed, but these issues usually resolve after about one week.
If you suspect an infection, consult with your surgeon. Although it is rare, there is always a risk that the transplanted hair follicles won’t take. In such cases, the patient may have to undergo the procedure again.
If you are experiencing any major side effects, contact your plastic surgeon immediate or dial 911 if it is a medical emergency.
Other Risks May Include
- Pain
- Swelling
- Bleeding
- Numbness
- Drainage at the site of the procedure
- Follicle swelling
Eyebrow Transplant Risks
Mild redness, swelling, crusting, or tiny scabs around each follicle should be expected wherever the hair grafts have been placed, but these issues usually resolve after about one week.
If you suspect an infection, consult with your surgeon. Although it is rare, there is always a risk that the transplanted hair follicles won’t take. In such cases, the patient may have to undergo the procedure again.
If you are experiencing any major side effects, contact your plastic surgeon immediate or dial 911 if it is a medical emergency.
Other Risks May Include
- Pain
- Swelling
- Bleeding
- Numbness
- Drainage at the site of the procedure
- Follicle swelling
Eyebrow Transplant FAQs
Eyebrow Transplants are also good for people who are not happy with the appearance of and want a thicker, fuller look to their eyebrows.
You also may want an eyebrow transplant if you have a medical condition that causes hair loss, such as Alopecia Areata (when the immune system attacks hair follicles) or if you have had an injury that affected your skin, such as scars or burns.
Eyebrow Transplants are preferred by many because transplantation surgery uses hairs from the patient’s scalp along with advanced techniques for flawless placement of the hairline, so the results look perfectly natural when they grow in.
Eyebrow Transplants are not typically covered by health insurance. This is because they are considered to be a “non-medical” procedure.
Thirty years or older is the typical recommended age for Hair Transplant Surgery – this includes eyebrow transplants. Patients younger than 30 can be candidates, yet may consider alternatives, such as hair loss medications.
The cost is based on the number of follicles that are needed to fill in the desired area of concern and will be decided during your consultation.
Recovery period for Eyebrow Transplant is relatively fast. Typically, healing occurs in 14 days or less and visible hair growth of new hair follicles occurs within 4 to 6 months.