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How Are Eyebrow Hair Transplant Procedures Different?
It is not unusual for men to have hair transplant surgery for male pattern baldness. Even female baldness is discussed on commercials for hair transplant clinics. A less common use of hair transplant surgery is to replace eyebrow hair. However, this procedure is quite different from other hair transplant surgeries.
It is important to replace eyebrow hair that has fallen out because it is such an integral part of the human face. People realize that men have receding hair lines and balding on the tops of their heads. It is not out of the ordinary to see a woman with thinning hair. Yet, look at a person without eyebrows and the effect will be disturbing. Eyebrows are just expected.
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Some people have hair transplant
surgery to their eyebrows because the hair has
simply fallen out over time. Others have thyroid
disease or other diseases that affect their hair. A
certain type of alopecia results in eyebrow loss.
Excessive plucking can be a problem, too. Burns,
tattoos, and infections can cause the eyebrow hair
to fall out, and some people just are not able to
grow eyebrows at all.
Hair transplant surgery for eyebrows is different
because eyebrows are different from scalp hair. For
one thing, the hair has a distinct growth pattern
with each section of the eyebrow pointing in a
different direction. The hair forms a sharp angle so
that it grows out and then flat to the face. Scalp
hair has a much gentler angle.
Eyebrow hairs do not grow in the same type of
follicular units as scalp hair. Rather than growing
in groups of one to four hairs, they are simply
single strands of hair. You can see this if you look
carefully in the mirror at your eyebrows. Hair
transplant methods have to take this fact into
account.
When doctors do hair transplant surgery to replace
eyebrows, they have to make sure that they put the
hairs in so that they will point in the natural hair
direction. For this, the surgeons use very fine
gauge needles. They must also use this to help the
hair to lie flat.
Because the eyebrow hair is made of individual
hairs, hair transplant surgery must involve creating
those single units of hair. To do this, hair is
taken from the scalp, just as in other hair
transplant procedures. Then, the follicular units
are divided into individual hair grafts. This is
done with a stereomicroscope.
Inserting these micro-grafts is a very tricky
business. Creating the correct angles is difficult.
If the patient does not have straight hair, her
curly hair must be inserted by rotating it so that
it lies even with the curve of the brow that is
being made.
One drawback to eyebrow hair transplant surgery is
that eyebrow hair, which usually does not grow, will
grow and need to be cut because it is actually scalp
hair. Also, when the wounds heal, the lay of the
eyebrows may change and not be so natural.
However, if you need hair transplant surgery to
replace your eyebrows, it is usually a much better
alternative than other choices you have. Eyebrows
drawn in with eyebrow pencil do not look natural at
all, and the option of going without eyebrows is
unthinkable to many people. Hair transplant surgery
may just be your best bet.
