Greetings,
Here is a male patient on whom I performed an FUE eyebrow transplant procedure.
The patient describes the experience undergoing the procedure, and photos are shown before and 1 week after the procedure.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Here is another patient that presented to me after undergoing an eyebrow transplant in Canada by a hair transplant surgeon who has been performing hair transplants for many years but has not performed many eyebrow transplant procedures. Her results showed very sparse density of hairs and unsightly 2 haired follicles present in the eyebrow. The patient was very dissatisfied and presented for a corrective eyebrow transplant. I placed just under 400 single hair follicles per eyebrow and the results are shown immediately post procedure. The patient should have significant density with a completely natural result after 7-9 months.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
This shows a botched eyebrow transplant and then immediately post eyebrow transplant repair.
This shows a botched eyebrow transplant and then immediately post eyebrow transplant repair.
Greetings,
Here is a patient of mine who flew in from Australia who had received a less than satisfactory result from a previous eyebrow transplant with a highly experienced hair transplant surgeon, but unfortunately not so experienced eyebrow transplant surgeon.
More and more of my eyebrow transplant procedures are repairs of previous unsatisfactory eyebrow transplant procedures. Make sure that your eyebrow transplant surgeon can show you at least 50 before and after photos of their eyebrow transplant results before you even consider that physician for your procedure. The art of eyebrow transplantation is very different from standard hair transplantation and without the appropriate training and artistic eye you could end up with less than satisfactory results.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
This is a patient who had a prior poor eyebrow transplant corrected with proper placement and density of hairs.
Greetings,
I recently saw a patient in consultation that had an eyebrow transplant procedure performed in the office of a very well known physician. The issue is that the physician did not perform the procedure. In fact, the physician is not trained in hair transplantation at all and does not even perform hair transplant or eyebrow transplant procedures himself. What he did was have a medical assistant perform the entire procedure, from beginning to end, and the physician did not perform any aspect of it. The medical assistant performed the harvest using the neograft automated FUE machine and then created the recipient sites and placed the grafts. The patient ended up having 2 procedures like this.
The entire procedure was an epic failure. Only about 20 hairs grew from both procedures on each eyebrow and the hairs that grew were growing straight out from the skin in unsightly directions. The donor area in the back of the head was also significantly scarred from the attempted extraction of many hundreds of hair follicles.
In addition, the patient also had an eyebrow tattoo performed in the same physicians office prior to the 2 eyebrow transplants which created even more scarring in the eyebrow.
To have a medical assistant perform the entire hair or eyebrow transplant procedure is not only unethical, it is against the law in many states including California. Unfortunately this represent a growing trend in the field of hair and eyebrow transplantation. More and more companies are pitching “automated” devices to harvest hair follicles and selling physicians who have no experience in the field with a new device to increase their revenue growth. Their pitch is that you don’t need to know anything about hair and eyebrow transplants, just buy the machine and the company will supply per diems technicians to do the rest. This is the result of that.
I performed an eyebrow transplant procedure on the patient and placed approximately 300 follicles per eyebrow. The results are shown a week after the procedure. In a few months I will updated with follow up photos. Because of all the scarring from the previous eyebrow tattoo and botched eyebrow transplants, the patient will have less growth yield than someone with healthy tissue. She should still have an excellent result and I already told her she should expect to have a second procedure in 9-12 months to increase the density.
This should be a lesson to anyone considering hair or eyebrow transplants. Make sure you go to a physician who specializes EXCLUSIVELY in hair transplants or if you are going to have an eyebrow transplant someone who does many of these procedures, and that they have dozens if not hundreds of results to show you. Just because the physician is skilled in another field does not make them an excellent hair or eyebrow transplant surgeon.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
This is a botched eyebrow transplant with pre existing eyebrow tattoo present.
This is a botched eyebrow transplant with pre existing eyebrow tattoo showing the hairs growing in different directions incorrectly.
This is a botched eyebrow transplant with pre existing eyebrow tattoo immediately post corrective eyebrow transplant procedure.
This is one week after approximately 300 grafts were placed in each eyebrow to correct a botched eyebrow transplant procedure.
This is one week after approximately 300 grafts were placed in each eyebrow to correct a botched eyebrow transplant procedure.
Greetings,
This is a male patient who cuts his hair very short and wanted more density in the outer half of his eyebrows. I harvested the donor follicles from the scalp using FUE so that the patient would not have a strip scar and the results are shown after 8 months.
Respectfully,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Eyebrow transplant utilizing grafts harvested via FUE.
Eyebrow transplant utilizing grafts harvested via FUE.
Greetings,
With the growing field of hair and eyebrow restoration procedures, and the abundance of new “automating” machines, companies are “pitching” doctors as not needing to know anything about hair transplantation, just buy the machine and we will provide some medical assistants to perform the entire procedure. This is taking place everywhere and I am seeing more and more cases of patients undergoing botched procedures in dermatology and plastic surgery practices that have no experience doing hair and eyebrow transplant procedures. I have posted some of these botched procedures and will continue to do so. It is imperative that the consumer stay vigilant and only go to an individual that specializes exclusively in hair and eyebrow restoration in order to increase the likelihood of an excellent result.
Now the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery has also issued a warning to consumers regarding unqualified individuals performing hair and eyebrow restoration. Just because you are going to see a Physician does not mean that the individual is well versed in hair and eyebrow transplants. Make sure your treating physician can show you at least 100 before and after photos of their own patients that look good to you before considering the physician for your procedure.
You can find the full text of the ISHRS press release below.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
http://www.ishrs.org/content/consumer-alert
Seeking Hair Restoration Surgery?
Be sure that a properly trained licensed physician or properly trained licensed allied health professional practicing within the scope of his or her license is responsible for your treatment.
The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) is concerned about the growing risk to patients of unlicensed technicians performing substantial aspects of hair restoration surgery. The use of unlicensed technicians to perform aspects of hair restoration surgery which should only be performed by a properly trained and licensed physician or properly trained and licensed allied health professional (e.g., nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant) practicing within the scope of his or her license, places patients at risk of: (i) misdiagnosis; (ii) failure to diagnose hair disorders and related systemic diseases; and (iii) can result in the performance of unnecessary or ill advised surgery all of which jeopardizes patient safety and outcomes. There may also be a risk that unlicensed technicians may not be covered by malpractice insurance.
The ISHRS believes the following aspects of hair restoration surgery should only be performed by a licensed physician or licensed allied health professional practicing within the scope of his or her license:
To help insure patients have information needed to make informed decisions about who performs their hair restoration surgery, the ISHRS urges potential patients to ask the following questions as well as questions regarding costs, risks, and short and long-term benefits and planning:
Patients Should Ask These Questions:
Be your own best advocate. Protect yourself.
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The International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery is a non-profit medical association exempt from federal income tax pursuant to Internal revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). The mission of the ISHRS is to achieve excellence in medical and surgical outcomes by promoting member education, international collegiality, research, ethics, and public awareness.
Greetings,
Here is a link to a piece that aired today on Good Morning America featuring Eyebrow Transplants, that had me discussing the procedure, and 2 of my patients discussing their experiences undergoing the procedure.
I hope you enjoy watching.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
Greetings,
Here is a male patient of mine who received just over 300 grafts per eyebrow to increase the density of the outer eyebrows on both sides. The hairs were harvested from the scalp via FUE. The results are shown after 6 months. The patient should see a bit more growth over the next few months but the results are already very visible. FUE harvest is a good option for men that like to cut their hair very short and don’t want any linear scar from the strip harvest procedure.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
This is a male patient who had an eyebrow transplant harvested via FUE.
This is a male patient who had an eyebrow transplant with harvest via FUE.
Greetings,
Here is a link to a recent article from the UK press about a woman who underwent an eyebrow and eyelash transplant. Eyebrow transplants have recently become much more common as more people have discovered this procedure exists. Eyelash transplants are much more uncommon. Because the hair is taken from the scalp it will grow longer and need to be trimmed. This poses 2 problems for eyelash transplants. Firstly the hair can grow into the eye, thus scratching the cornea. Secondly, because you will need to trim the eyelash hairs every few weeks there is a high risk of injury to the eye. In addition, because the eyelid is so thin, and has so many muscles and nerves in a small area, there is a very high incidence of complications in eyelash procedures. It is for all these reason that I do not perform eyelash transplant procedures.
On the other hand, Eyebrow transplant procedures in the hands of an experienced eyebrow transplant surgeon can be very successful and I have been performing these procedures for over 10 years. In the patient highlighted in this article, she has a tremendous amount of eyebrow pencil makeup on her eyebrows in the “after” photo, thus not really giving an accurate image of what her transplanted eyebrows really look like.
Please feel free to click through my eyebrow transplant photos or go to my eyebrow transplant website www.EyebrowTransplantMD.com for more information.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, M.D.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk./femail/article-2573605/REVEALED-Mother-ru…-look-having-double-eyelash-eyebrow-transplants-using-hair.head.html
Greetings,
Here is a patient of mine who I performed an eyebrow transplant on 7 months ago. She is extremely happy and we will be performing a secondary “touch up” procedure to increase the density slightly and fill in a few spots. These results are typical with my special technique for eyebrow transplantation.
All the best,
Marc Dauer, MD