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Body Hair Transplant Improves Eyebrow Transplantation

Body Hair Transplant Improves Eyebrow Transplantation: Eyebrows are considered a key cosmetic feature by most and an important facet in conveying countenance. They frame the eyes, and different shapes can have a dramatic effect on appearance. For the thousands of people who suffer a loss of eyebrow hair, it is yet another embarrassing and possibly demoralizing type of baldness.

Why Would A Person Lose Their Eyebrow Hair?

Causes of eyebrow hair loss may range from being congenital in origin to having a psychological foundation. A list of possible causes includes:

  • A genetic/natural lack of eyebrow hair
  • Trauma from an accident; possibly a chemical burn or an electrical burn
  • Alopecia universalis
  • Course of treatment for some systemic diseases, like various cancers, can result in all body hair falling out (i.e. chemotherapy treatment)
  • Trichotillomania, an impulse control disorder that causes obsessive plucking/pulling of scalp hair and eyebrow hair
  • Excessive cosmetic plucking that ends up in permanent loss of hair

What Is Eyebrow Transplantation?

Eyebrow transplantation, similar to regular hair transplantation, is a surgery in which hair is extracted from a donor source and implanted into the eyelid margin. Traditionally the donor source has been head hair. With the follicular unit extraction (FUE) method of transplantation hairs can be chosen specifically for this purpose. If a person’s eyebrow follicles are naturally thicker, thick mid-rear scalp hairs can be extracted—if the eyebrow follicles are thinner, thin nape hairs can be used. The problem that subsists, even with FUE, is that even when hairs are uprooted and implanted elsewhere, their character does not change. Thus, a head hair will continue to act and grow as a head hair, even after implantation in the eyebrow site. This denotes frequent trimming of new eyebrow hairs.

Body Hair Transplant Improves Eyebrow Transplantation

Body hair transplant improves eyebrow Transplantation when done correctly as when advanced UGraft FUE is used to expertly remove donor hairs from various places on the body. For this purpose, body hair can be extracted from body areas that bear finer hairs that closely resemble natural eyebrow hair in caliber and length, examples area legs and forearms.

That’s where refinement of eyebrow transplant comes in. The legs are an ideal source of donor follicles for those without eyebrow hair. They tend to be similar in stature to eyebrow hair and are naturally slow-growing, which means less trimming for the recipient. However, other non-head hair may also be used for the eyebrows if it’s decided it will provide a more pleasing result. The product is ultimately a better quality transplant, a better outcome, and a higher level of long-term patient satisfaction.

Eyebrow Transplantation Improved from BHT
Before eyebrow enhancement through eyebrow transplantation.

Body Hair Transplant Improves Eyebrow Transplantation - After chest to Eyebrow Transplantation
After eyebrow enhancement using chest hair for eyebrow transplantation.*

Read Dr U’s publication in the Journal Of the American Academy of Dermatology JAAD on the use of body hair in eyebrow transplantation

 
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