Eyebrow Transplant

Since the eyebrow transplant is a special procedure that can only be performed by a trained eyebrow transplant specialist, we currently only perform this treatment at our clinics in London and Basel.

The eyebrow transplant is closely related to the classic hair transplant. First, there is a detailed consultation with the responsible hair transplant specialist. Here the patient has the opportunity to express their wishes, ideas and concerns.

Afterwards, the hair transplant specialist explains the medical options and draws the outline of the desired eyebrow. In order to obtain the most natural result possible, the transplanter includes the already existing eyebrow area in the planning. He always includes the existing eyebrow hair.

Only after these preliminary discussions the actual eyebrow transplant procedure takes place. Here, the transplanter first devotes himself to the donor area, which is usually located on the back of the patient's head. The reason: here the hair roots are virtually immune to the notorious hair loss hormone DHT. But that's not all: the hair roots at the back of the head also closely resemble the eyebrow hairs in terms of structure and thickness. The advantage of this is that the greater the similarities, the more harmonious the result.

Now the plastic surgeon removes the hair follicles from the donor area using the FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction) method. Immediately after the removal, he reimplants them one by one along the natural growth direction into the patient's eyebrow area. Thanks to this innovative gentle method, the incisions heal in a short time and no scars remain.

Important: On the head our hair grows in small groups, which include up to four hairs. However, eyebrows are different: they are composed of many individual hairs. Consequently, eyebrow transplantation and head hair transplantation differ decisively in this point. Therefore, eyebrow transplantation – despite a smaller number of grafts – also takes several hours. However, during the entire procedure, the patient remains completely conscious. Nevertheless, the hair transplant procedure is absolutely painless for them, because thanks to local anesthesia they do not feel anything from the individual treatment steps.

The speed of our eyebrow growth is as individual as our eye color. How quickly and densely they sprout therefore depends entirely on our genetic predisposition. Depending on the genetic predisposition, the new eyebrow hair of some patients can grow back in record time, while others take more time to grow back.

As a rule, it can be assumed that the hair grows by about 0.3 millimeters per day during the growth phase – which lasts about one month in the case of the eyebrows. This is followed by a resting phase in which the hairs in the brow remain but no longer grow longer. In the next phase, the newly gained eyebrow hair falls out for a short time, and then grows back completely. Here a little patience is required to finally marvel at the permanent end result.

Experience shows that it takes about 4 months until the newly formed hair roots begin to sprout.

Since eyebrows are shorter than the scalp hair, it can generally be said that the result of an eyebrow transplant is recognisable more quickly than that of a hair transplant.

Potential reasons for eyebrow loss include alopecia areata or trichotillomania – an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) characterized by the urge to pull out one’s own hair. Loss of eyebrow hair can also occur as result of physical trauma after an injury or as one of the side effects of a chemotherapy. Other than medical conditions, over-plucking of the eyebrows or bad permanent make-up can be responsible if your eyebrow is thinning out.

As a first step, a hair analysis should be performed to provide answers about the reasons for hair loss.

A permanent solution for regrowing eyebrow hair lies in an eyebrow restoration. In comparison to tattooing the hair, the hair transplant surgery leads to natural results.