Eyebrow Transplant Surgery

Men with male pattern baldness either live with their problem, shave their head completely or look for a male pattern baldness cure. Women have hair loss problems too and commercials you'd see on TV today are advertising hair transplant clinics where men and women with hair loss problems can go to. However, hair transplant procedures aren't just restricted to the hair on our head. Hair transplant surgery is also used on eyebrow hair. An eyebrow hair transplant procedure, however, is very different from the other hair transplant procedures.

Eyebrow hair is an important feature of the face. Receding hairlines and balding tops in men, and thinning hair among women are quite common, but it can be very obvious -- even disturbing -- to see a person without eyebrows. We would expect to see eyebrows on people we see. 

There are people who undergo eyebrow hair transplant surgery because the hair there has thinned or fallen out with the passage of time. People with thyroid diseases and similar diseases also tend to have hair loss problem, including hair loss in their eyebrows. There is a type of alopecia that affects the hair on the eyebrows. There are people who plucked their eyebrows excessively that the hair follicles got damaged over time. Other reasons why eyebrow hair can thin or fall out over time include tattoos, burns and infections. And then there are people who, by some twist of genetic fate, just don't have eyebrows at all. They're all candidates for eyebrow hair transplant surgery.

An eyebrow hair transplant surgery is different from a normal hair transplant surgery. This is because the hair on the eyebrows is different from the hair on the scalp. For example, the hair on each section of the eyebrow has a distinct growth pattern. The eyebrow hair forms with a sharp angle so it grows out and then goes flat towards the face. The hair on our scalp, on the other hand, has a less sharper angle.

Another thing is that eyebrows don't have same hair follicular units as the head. While the hairs on our head tend to grow in groups of one to four, the hairs on our eyebrows tend to grow in single strands. Because of this, eyebrow hair transplants use a different kind of method for transplanting eyebrow hair.

Doctors who do eyebrow hair transplant procedures are careful to ensure that the hairs they put in point to the natural direction of the eyebrow hair. In order to do this, eyebrow hair transplant surgeons use gauge needles that are extremely fine. They also use these needles to make the hair remain flat.

Since the hairs on our eyebrows grow in single units, the surgeon must create single units of hair and transplant those onto the eyebrows. What a surgeon does is take hair from the scalp, and then divide the follicular units into single hair grafts using a stereomicroscope.

The tricky part is inserting the micro-grafts into the eyebrows. A surgeon must make sure that his inserts them in the correct angle. If the patient has curly hair, the surgeon must insert the micro-grafts by rotating the hair so that it lies evenly on the curve of the brow.

Like any other type of hair transplant procedure, eyebrow hair surgery has some drawbacks. In terms of growth, eyebrow hair doesn't grow as fast as the hair on our scalp. However, a patient who has undergone an eyebrow hair transplant or hair graft procedure will have to trim her eyebrows because the transplanted hair will grow. The transplanted hair is basically scalp hair. In addition, when the wounds heal, there is a chance that the lay of the eyebrows is going to be a different from before and it may not look very natural.

Despite the drawbacks, an eyebrow hair transplant surgery looks to be the better option. You can draw your eyebrows using an eyebrow pencil, but it would look so obviously fake, and it can be pretty embarrassing to be out in public without eyebrows.