If you have thin or sparse eyelashes and makeup does not help enough, you may wish to consider a permanent solution with eyelash transplant surgery. While other methods area available, they may not work. Eyelash enhancement products such as the use of mascara won’t do a thing for someone whose eyelashes are too thin or short to hold the makeup. Applying false eyelashes can be a tedious and even a painful process that often results in a clumpy or even a fake appearance. Even using the new Latisse eyelash enhancement solution has unpleasant side effects including darkening of the skin around the lashes and may even darken the iris of the eye, permanently. In addition, none of these procedures are actually permanent – including Latisse which must be applied daily and will wear off after several months. Eyelash transplant surgery provides a permanent solution for those without full eyelashes. Who Can Benefit from Eyelash Transplant Surgery Eyelash transplant surgery can be considered by those who have lost eyelashes through trauma, injury or environmental reasons such as chemotherapy which has permanently damaged hair follicles. Some patients seek eyelash implants because they have damaged their own eyelashes through the use of artificial products and “follicle abuse” such as the use of harsh glues which pull eyelashes out upon removal. Other patients may seek eye lash implants because they have lost eyelashes due to natural processes of aging or even because they were born without a full lush eye lash set. How Is Eyelash Surgery Performed? Eye lash transplants are similar to hair transplant surgery. Living hair follicles will be taken from...
Once reserved for patients that lost their eyebrows due to cancer treatment, burns, or other medical reason, eyelash transplant is a rapidly growing cosmetic procedure. Women that once felt that they had no options to enhance their natural eyelashes except for constant mascara application or glue-on false lashes are now finding that they can have permanent, long, thick eyelashes. Throw away your mascara, eyelash transplants may be the long-awaited solution to short, sparse lashes. A Delicate Procedure Similar to Hair Transplants While there are several variations that have been tried for eyelash transplant surgery, the approach that has gained the most success (and also popularity) is very similar to the hair transplant technique used to treat pattern baldness. A number of hairs are selected from the scalp that are reasonable straight or have very little curl to them. These individual hairs, root and all, are carefully dissected from the scalp under local anesthesia. In the eyelid, extremely small holes are made with a fine needle that will act as acceptance sites for the harvested hair. The holes must be small enough to accommodate only a single hair, and hold it snugly. There is no suturing taking place at all. The process is much like transplanting a flower on a much smaller scale; the plant is held by the surrounded dirt until the root can take hold. The transplanted eyelash is held in place by the skin until the hair follicle can establish itself in the eyelid. Achieving Beautiful Results with About 50 Lashes Did you that each human upper eyelid has between one and two hundred eyelashes? Fortunately since...
