Our eyebrows provide a particularly important function to our faces. They let us show much emotion to onlookers. It’s no wonder then that grooming the eyebrows is such a large aesthetic concern.

Making them thin by plucking, apply makeup to look fuller when needed, and even colour them at leisure.

The eyebrows are a key feature of our faces, which makes it problematic when beginning to lose them. Eyebrow thinning is a common occurrence that affects both genders, but particularly more to females.

The constant plucking of them for aesthetic reasons can permanently damage the follicles if utmost care is not taken. Age also plays a factor, with older patients commonly ceasing to grow eyebrow hair altogether while the remaining thins away.

In light of this problem, ways to keep eyebrows from falling off permanently were sought. The results came in the form of eyebrow restoration via transplant.

Candidates for Eyebrow Restoration

Any person who has found their eyebrows no longer growing is a candidate for this procedure. Not only over plucking victims, but people who lost their eyebrows due to injury, chemotherapy treatment, or an illness

Unlike hair transplants, the eyebrow restoration demands a more technically-minded approach to it. Before starting the procedure, an extensive design process for the eyebrows takes place.

There the selection of the spots where to place the follicles following the original arch of your brow occurs. The graft will follow the same angle your brows made to make them just as full as they used to be if not more.

Eyebrow Restoration Procedure

As with a hair transplant, eyebrow restoration employs two different techniques to achieve their results: DHI and FUE. Both only diverge on how they implant the grafts into the receiving site. DHI uses a special device called a ‘choi pen’, otherwise known as an implanter, to make the incision and graft them at the same time. Meanwhile, FUE manually makes microscopic incisions on the site and then inserts the grafts into them.

When it’s time to make the grafts, the surgeon makes numerous little surgical incisions around your thin eyebrows. These incisions will contour them following the same angle of its arch and make room for the grafts that will make them fuller. The procedure takes from four to six hours to complete.

Eyebrow Restoration Aftercare

After the procedure, some swelling and bruising will be present around the brow area, it can feel discomforting and’ weight down’ your brow a bit. Your surgeon will prescribe painkillers to bear the discomfort. This swelling will subside in two weeks’ time.

During your recovery activity that involves effort, you should expect scabs to appear in the days following, let them alone and do not pull them. In the next two weeks, the scabs and the hair grafted should fall, this is normal, and the root of the follicle remains intact.

Growth of the hair will start four months after the procedure, taking around six months to look fuller. Since the grafted follicles are from your scalp, they will grow larger than regular eyebrow hair. Remember to trim the grafted hair regularly to maintain a proper appearance.