Eyebrows frame the face. In today’s society, many men choose to shave their scalp hair completely. Actors, men in print advertisements, and colleagues at work have electively chosen this style, but all have remaining eyebrows. In addition, eyebrows reflect our emotions, surprise, concentration, and other facial expressions. Traumatic injury and skin cancer scars are the most common referral for surgical reconstruction of eyebrows. No donor source has the same caliber and rate of growth as eyebrows. The best available donor source is from the posterior scalp. This hair has a different caliber and rate of growth. All patients will need to trim the transplanted hair in the eyebrows every 2 weeks. In addition, the cosmetic appearance will never be completely natural. Transplanting hair into the eyebrow is not a perfect cosmetic solution but will often improve the cosmetic defect in a patient with a high patient satisfaction. (for more information read chapter by Dr Avram M.D. for Opthalmology Clinics of North America, Volume 18, Number 2, June 2005).

A variety of scalp dermatosis including lichen planopilaris and discoid lupus create permanent loss of hair. These scarring alopecia can be corrected by adding a large number of follicular groupings into the affected scar tissue. Patients can have excellent restoration .

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