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You often don't realize the full impact that eyebrows can make on the total facial presentation until you see a person without them. Eyebrow loss can make an individual feel very self-conscious about his or her appearance, and hair transplantation can often restore eyebrows and, at the same time, self-confidence. This is also true of having eyelashes, a much less commonly requested but still performed procedure.
Information, Photos, and Stories about Eyebrow Transplant Procedures
Hair transplantation has been used successfully for many years to fill out patchy or partial eyebrows, to repair the results from unnatural appearing tattoos (permanent make-up), and camouflage scars within the eyebrow area. Jeffrey S. Epstein, MD, FACS is one of the world's leading experts in performing this procedure, and he has helped advance this technique to where results are natural appearing. He just possibly has performed more of these procedures over the past several years than any other surgeon in the world, currently performing two to three of these procedures every week. As a board certified facial plastic surgeon who specializes exclusively in surgical hair restoration, Dr. Epstein is able to combine his aesthetic skills with state-of-the-art techniques to restore eyebrows.
 Eyebrow hair loss can occur for several reasons, and is most commonly associated with the following:
- Trauma, such as a car accident or burn.
- Systemic or local disease such as low thyroid levels or anemia.
- Excessive plucking, electrolysis or laser hair removal performed to reshape the eyebrow.
- Trichotillomania (TTM), or self-inflicted obsessive compulsive plucking of the eyebrows.
- Medical or surgical treatments like radiation therapy, or the surgical removal of a tumor.
- Genetics
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The procedure for restoring eyebrows involves the individual placement of single hairs which will each grow. The meticulous placement of of as many as 350 to 400 hairs to each eyebrow in a single procedure can restore them to their most natural appearance. Critical steps include the microscopic dissection of the individual hairs, and placing the grafts at a specific angle and direction to mimic their natural position.
Similar to eyebrow transplants, eyelash transplants can also be performed to restore a natural appearance. Dr. Epstein has expertise as well in performing this most difficult and demanding of procedures.
To learn more about eyebrow transplantation , browse the links above to gather additional information. You can also visit Dr. Epstein's website www.foundhair.com to learn more about all types of hair transplantation.
Dr. Jeffrey Epstein has performed many successful eyebrow transplantations on both men and women. He has dealt with eyebrow hair loss which has resulted from varying reasons, from TTM, to simple heredity and overplucking. Located in Miami and New York City, with consultation offices in other areas of Florida, patients travel from throughout the world to have Dr. Epstein perform their procedure.
The specifics of your procedure can be discussed with Dr. Epstein. The doctor and his office staff are available to answer all your questions, and to make your hair restoration experience a comfortable and safe one. To learn more, click here, or, contact Dr. Epstein here.
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Beauty Q & A
Self Magazine July 2007
 QUESTION:
Help! I have overplucked. Have you ever heard of such a thing as an eyebrow transplant?
ANSWER:
Yup. Not that you'll ever see Dr House rushing a donor brow into the OR. But even if the procedure isn't the stuff of high drama, the results can be. (Check out the before-and-after above.) Still, if you just went too far with the tweezers, the $5,000 procedure probably isn't for you. It's meant for those whose eyebrows fall out permanently from illness, trauma or hormonal issues, or overpluckers so egregious they've destroyed some follicles, says Jeffrey Epstein, M.D., a plastic surgeon who practices in New York City and Miami and does 60 to 70 brow transplants a year.
The surgeon takes individual hair follicles from your head and implants them in the sparse patches. Although 250 grafts per brow is average, as many as 350 may be necessary to re-create an entire brow. The two-to three-hour process is done with a local anesthetic; it takes about four days for your eyebrows to heal. Over the next few months, the transplanted hairs fall out (that's normal), then regrow from the newly situated follicle. After that, they'll require regular trimming (it's head hair, after all) and the use of a brow groomer (there will inevitably be a few that won't lie flat or will point in the wrong direction).
Problem Sparse Lashes and Brow
Hair Transplant - New Beauty Summer/Fall 2007
 HOW IT FIXES THE PROBLEM: "Individual hairs are transferred from the back of the scalp (because these are the same in site and texture] and Implanted into your upper eye-lids or brows," explains facial plastic surgeon Jeffrey Epstein, MD, of New York City and Miami.
WHAT TO EXPECT: Anesthesia generally involves an oral sedative and injections of local anesthesia before about 3000 hairs and the follicles are taken from an inconspicuous donor site and transplanted into the brows in a two- to two-and-a half-hour session. For a lash transplant, between 30 and 40 hairs are implanted in an hour to an hour and a half. The hairs are then trimmed to the appropriate length. Because of the anesthesia, you shouldn't feel any pain during the procedure," says Dr. Epstein, who also notes that recovery is generally comfortable as well.
WHAT YOU'LL NOTICE: Skin may be a bit bruised and swollen when you leave your doctor's office, but lashes and brows will immediately look fuller. In the brow area, you may also get a small amount of scabbing. "In about three weeks, these hairs fall out because they go through a shock phase and in two to three months they grow again," says Dr. Epstein. The transplanted lashes and brows grow just like the hair on your head, so keep in mind they need to be trimmed regularly. This procedure is not risk-free, Numbness and scarring are possible. To keep these risks to a minimum, be sure to select a specialist who has extensive experience with these types of hair transplantation procedures.
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