Eyebrow Transplant: Recovery, Before and After

What is an eyebrow transplant?

Many patients are interested in transplants as a way to reinvigorate the growth of eyebrow hair that has been significantly altered after years of plucking.
Although originally intended to restore eyebrow growth in patients who had lost hair resulting from genetics or as a side effect of chemotherapy, transplants have recently picked up steam in both medical and cosmetic applications.
The entire eyebrow transplant procedure — from initial consultation to full recovery — takes about a year. The procedure itself is typically completed within three to four hours.

Eyebrow transplant before and after pictures

How does it work?

For your initial consultation, bring in a photograph to show your doctor exactly how you would like your new eyebrows to look. Taking into consideration fullness, symmetry and the natural shape of your existing brows.
Your doctor will then typically use a surgical marker to draw in the eyebrows to provide you with a better idea of what they’ll ultimately look like. Some doctors might even have software to help you visualize the result beforehand.
On the day of treatment, your doctor will administer local anesthesia so that you only feel minimal pain. During the procedure, they will use your own hair follicles (typically taken from an inconspicuous area – like the back of the scalp) in order to harvest individual follicular grafts, which are then meticulously placed, one-by-one, onto the eyebrow area.
While grafting hair follicles from the scalp, your doctor may use saline injections to expand the skin in order to to facilitate follicle removal. Depending on what your doctor recommends, one of two traditional hair transplant procedures will be used: either Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) or Follicular Unit Transplant (FUT).

What is the recovery like?

Post-procedure, patients should experience a relatively simple healing process, with doctors often comparing the recovery time to that of getting a tattoo. You may experience some mild superficial bruising and/or crusting on the skin surrounding your eyebrows, but most patients report feeling completely normal just three days after their surgery.
Because the eyebrow transplant procedure is non-invasive — generally requiring only local anesthesia — you will be able to drive yourself home and return to your normal activities within a day or two.
Doctors warn that some bruising is normal and caution against touching the eyebrows for at least 24 hours following the transplant. In addition, you’ll be told not to get your eyebrows wet and may be asked to limit your use of makeup for several days.
Although recovery is pretty quick when compared to more in-depth hair transplant procedures, it still takes approximately four months for new eyebrow hair to grow, with maximum growth reaching its peak in roughly one year’s time. This is because the hair strands placed in your new eyebrows are meant to fall out in order to encourage new growth via the transplanted hair follicles.

Before it can do this, however, your hair needs to go through its regular growing-and-shedding cycle. You may want to invest in a pair of trimming shears, as the eyebrow hair will likely grow more quickly than you’d expect.
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