Therapie Hair Restoration Cork

Eyebrow transplants are designed to restore growing hair to eyebrows that are overly thin, scarred, or completely missing. Eyebrow transplants are designed to restore growing hair to eyebrows that are overly thin, scarred, or completely missing.
 

It is a surgical procedure used to address the absence of hair due to genetics, over-plucking, hormonal abnormalities, or trauma such as from burns or accidents.

Eyebrow transplant procedures are performed in the same way as a hair transplant, by harvesting hair follicles from the donor site; usually at the back of the head at the lower hair margin or the margin close behind the ear, where the hair is finer.

Hair Restoration Surgeon Dr. Andre Nel performs eyebrow transplants at Therapie Hair Restoration Clinic in Malahide, Dublin. He uses the FUT Strip surgery method to harvest a single strip of hair-bearing tissue from the back of the scalp.

This is carefully dissected; single follicles are extracted and trimmed whilst retaining critical structures and are carefully transplanted into small incisions made along the predesigned eyebrows.

A procedure typically involves the placement of 50 to as many as 325 hairs into each eyebrow, depending upon the existing amount of hair and the desired size and density.

Each hair is individually placed; meticulously angled to mimic natural growth. The use of all-microscopically dissected grafts allows their placement into the smallest possible incisions so as to minimize scarring and damage to existing hairs.

The first step on the patient’s journey is a consultation with our Surgeon and Medical Director Dr. Andre Nel. A thorough assessment of the patient’s individual needs; discuss the best course of action with them, providing all the information required to make a well-informed decision with realistic expectations.

Both surgical and non-surgical options will be discussed with each patient, depending on the individual’s situation. A tailored treatment plan will be recommended to help each person to reach their goal and ultimately address their hair loss problem.

Not everybody is a candidate for surgery right away; and some people may not be candidates at all. There are many factors to consider when contemplating hair restoration; please see our graft calculator to view some of those factors.

Elite Follicular Unit Extraction (EFUE) is one of the several hair restoration options performed by surgeon Dr. André Nel at the Therapie Hair Restoration Clinic.

What is a Follicular Unit?

In men, a follicular unit consists of 1-4 terminal (full thickness) hair follicles. In addition there may be a couple of fine vellus hairs, sebaceous (oil) glands, a small muscle (the arrector pili), tiny nerves and blood vessels, and a fine band of collagen that surrounds the unit (the perifolliculum).

Since the follicular unit is the hair bearing structure of the skin, it should be kept intact to insure maximum growth, and that is why the extraction of the follicular units from the donor site is so important.

There is more than one way to extract follicles from the donor site, and EFUE is one such method.

What is EFUE?

EFUE is a hair transplant technique. One of the most advanced and effective methods of hair grafting, follicular unit extraction uses a small round punch to extract a follicular unit and its adjoining hairs from an area of dense hair (donor site) to implant into a balding area (recipient site).

The specialised punch used in FUE allows the surgeon to remove hair from the skin without causing damage. The little round scars left at the donor site heal quickly and are for the most part hidden in the more abundant hair growing at the site.