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Eyebrow Transplant

What causes eyebrow loss?

What happened to my eyebrows? Eyebrow loss can occur in both men and women, and is most commonly due to injury/trauma resulting in scars, hormone imbalance, over-plucking/over-tweezing, heredity, and-or aging. Eyebrow can occur slowly over time or happen quickly. Eyebrow pencils, ‘permanent’ makeup tattoos and microblading offer only two-dimensional eyebrow restoration and are not permanent, so many patients with thinning or lost eyebrows seek an eyebrow transplant.

Eyebrows provide the natural symmetrical aesthetic frame to the upper face and eye area. Eyebrows are used for communication, especially emotional expression. Years ago, eyebrow “trends” were thinner. Today, the fashion trend is thicker, fuller eyebrows. If you have an eyebrow scar, this can disrupt the natural aesthetic symmetry of the face. Eyebrow transplantation offers an adjunctive and permanent restoration of a living and growing eyebrow using comfortable, modern microsurgical techniques. For women, aesthetic beauty of the eye area is incomplete without eyebrows. For men, thick full healthy eyebrows are a masculine sign of youth and vitality.

An eyebrow transplantation procedure always starts with a consultation with Dr. Bauman to determine the status of the eyebrow area and establish attainable goals that can be best achieved through an eyebrow transplant. Careful, meticulous artistic design of the eyebrows are critical to the success of the procedure. Once the design is “set,” the eyebrow transplant procedure may proceed.

Under comfortable local anesthesia (using the FDA-approved “Ouchless Needle” and Dr. Bauman’s “Ouchless Protocol”), scalp hair follicles are moved one-at-a-time into the eyebrow area. It bears repeating that careful artistic planning and meticulous angulation of each hair is critical to the naturalness of the final result. After several days of healing and crusting, the eyebrow skin returns to normal and the transplanted follicles are dormant. Hair will begin to appear first as stubble, starting approximately 6-12 weeks* later growing longer and more dense as the weeks go by. The final ‘result’ of an eyebrow transplant takes 8-10 months* to grow in. The transplanted hairs will need to be routinely trimmed. Eyebrow transplants by Dr. Alan Bauman are now be performed with the no-scalpel/no-stitch, no-linear-scar harvesting technique using NeoGraft and ARTAS robotic-assisted FUE for quicker and more comfortable recovery. Depending on the desired degree of coverage some patients typically require one or two procedures. Dr. Alan Bauman has performed eyebrow transplantation as a routine part of his full-time hair restoration practice.

Eyebrow transplantation produces living and growing eyebrows in the transplanted brow area that last as long* as your natural growing hair.

An eyebrow transplant procedure typically takes several hours to perform.

Eyebrow transplants typically take about 7-10 days to completely heal. Scabbing and crusting in the eyebrow area flake off at that time and the skin returns to normal appearance. Bruising and swelling during that time is rare, and can take several days to resolve. Transplanted hair will begin to grow in the brow at 6-12 weeks* following your procedure.

Thankfully, no. Eyebrow transplants are performed under comfortable local anesthesia using Dr. Bauman’s “Ouchless” techniques and equipment.

Eyebrow transplants must be routinely groomed (i.e., trimmed) as the transplanted hairs grow long. Eyebrow Transplant Before-After Case Study: Female with eyebrow loss and tattoo makeup; Before, 24-hours and 8-months* after eyebrow transplant procedure by Dr. Bauman. Achieving an aesthetic look to an eyebrow transplant requires delicate attention to the angle, orientation and position of every transplanted hair follicle as well as the overall shape of the eyebrow.

Eyebrow scars can be disfiguring for many people, causing much distress in both men and women who think they cannot grow hair in their scar. While scar tissue does not grow hair on its own, it is not well known that scar tissue can ABSOLUTELY grow hair and support hair follicle growth when hair follicles are carefully transplanted into the area. Areas of scar due to burns, trauma, injury, accidents, cuts, surgery, radiation treatments and other causes can support hair growth with transplantation in most instances. Sometimes a small “test” FUE hair transplant is performed to assess the health of the scar, if it is suspected that hair growth in the scar is possible. Once successful, a hair transplant is then performed which implants the living and growing follicles from the back of the scalp into the scar area. Below see some examples of Dr. Bauman’s hair transplant results in scar tissue in the eyebrow and eyelash area. If you have a scar in the eyebrow or eyelash area, Dr. Bauman can begin to assess your situation with a Long Distance Consultation.

See all of the steps of Dr. Bauman’s eyebrow transplant procedure as we watch Christina (who lost her eyebrows at a very young age) undergo eyebrow transplantation after many years of struggling with eyebrow pencils, permanent makeup and other eyebrow restoration options. This video is a compilation of clips that were originally posted on Dr Alan Bauman’s Instagram account with Christina’s consent. From Christina’s story, to the planning, eyebrow design, eyebrow “ouchless” local anesthesia, eyebrow recipient site-making, follicular unit FUE harvesting, hair follicle graft preparation, counting and sorting, eyebrow follicle graft implantation and her post-op and initial recovery. Watch Christina’s Eyebrow Transplant video below.

No-Scalpel/No-Stitch FUE for Eyebrow Transplantation

NeoGraft and ARTAS robotic-assisted FUE techniques have revolutionized hair follicle harvesting by eliminating the “scalpel and stitches” approach in the back of the scalp. FUE allows the harvesting of hair transplant grafts as small as a single hair follicle from the back of the scalp, leaving no linear scar to hide and no stitches to be removed. This less invasive method heals faster and more comfortably than taking a strip of skin from the back of the scalp and has less activity restrictions post-operatively. Dr. Alan Bauman was the first board-certified Hair Restoration Physician to use NeoGraft to perform FUE procedures routinely in North America. He and his team have transplanted literally millions of follicles using this method. Eyebrow transplantation requires artistry and precision to create satisfying results. For each patient, quite a bit of planning is required to design your new eyebrows. Eyebrow transplants can be performed for both men and women because brows often thin with age in both genders.

 

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