Eyebrow Transplants to Help Restore Your Eyebrows : Sometimes people are born without enough hair on their eyebrows, or got in an accident where their eyebrows have been removed, and need eyebrow restoration. An up and coming procedure that most people do not know about is eyebrow transplants, using a method such as Follicular Unit Extraction. Eyebrow transplants are very different from head hair transplants. First off, eyebrow hair grows from a very small angle along the skin. Eyebrow hairs emerge from the follicle at a very acute angle; therefore the hair grows flat to the skin’s surface. Scalp hair, on the other hand, grows at an angle of 45 degrees. Also, eyebrow hair growth cycles are much shorter than scalp hair growth cycles. The anagen growth phase of eyebrow hair lasts only about 4 months, while scalp hair in anagen phase can last anywhere from 3 to 7 years. In addition, eyebrow hairs grow in dramatically different directions throughout the entire eyebrow. The hairs also grow as individual strands with no follicular groups; unlike the scalp, which grows 2 to 4 hairs in follicular groups.

Eyebrow Transplants to Help Restore Your Eyebrows

Dr. Umar at DermHair Clinic in Los Angeles, California has created an advanced Follicular Unit Extraction procedure called UGraft that uses either body or head hair follicles to transplant and in order to reconstruct the eyebrows and enable eyebrow restoration. Unlike hair transplants where the donor hair is taken from another part of the scalp, the donor hair for eyebrow transplants is taken from another part of the body and will therefore have slightly different characteristics in both growth rate and appearance. If they are different, over time the transplanted scalp hair will slowly begin to approximate the growth pattern and characteristics of the existing eyebrow hairs-but it may never match it exactly. Eyebrow transplants using traditional strip method of hair transplants limits donor options to the hair in the “safe zone.” These thick terminal hairs contrast sharply with normal eyebrow hair quality, which is short, finer, and straight. One upside and potential downside with eyebrow hair transplants is that the eyebrow hairs will continue to grow, which may need constant trimming.

DermHair Clinic is the only clinic in Los Angeles that offers this eyebrow transplant procedure, using Follicular Unit Extraction. So be sure to take advantage if you are one person who needs an eyebrow restoration.

Eyebrow Transplants to Help Restore Your Eyebrow Appearance — This patient felt self conscious about the sparseness of his brows. His FUE eyebrow transplant with leg hair gave him the subtle definition he was looking for.*

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