While most patients make it to the final list of candidates for this procedure, there are specific considerations before giving the go-ahead. First, the patient’s medical condition needs to be stable to avoid any complications during the procedure. Some medical conditions that cause eyebrow loss, such as alopecia areata or frontal fibrosing alopecia, wherein oral medication provides good results, may not require transplantation. Hence, the doctor will judge candidacy based on thorough medical history or a biopsy. Hence, patients having scanty eyebrows due to genetics, overplucking, trauma, etc., are suitable candidates.

No. Only a small donor area may be trimmed. Your eyebrows remain untouched.

Yes. Because they’re taken from your scalp, transplanted eyebrow hairs grow like scalp hair — and may need occasional trimming. While all hair grows at a similar speed (about 0.25–0.3 mm per day), eyebrow hairs have a shorter growth cycle, typically around 30 days.

Yes, if your donor area is healthy, you may be eligible. A consultation is needed to assess your condition.

Eyebrow hair transplant is more aesthetic in comparison to the eyebrow shaping methods of tattooing or micro-blading. A tattoo would be permanent makeup applied on the eyebrow line and cannot be considered an appropriate transplant alternative. Further, micro-blading is less permanent as compared to a transplant. Both processes cannot replace the natural results achieved from real hair.

Technically, there is no age limit for hair transplants. So, hair transplant can be applied to everyone from 22 to 65 years of age. But we cannot say, all people in this age range can have a hair transplant. Therefore, the determinants are hair type, hair loss condition and the general health condition of the patient.

Eyebrow transplants are permanent. Once the follicles settle, they will continue growing naturally for life.

You can return to daily life within 48 hours. Full healing takes a few weeks.