Eyelash transplant latest craze in US nip-tuck world
THINK you've seen it all when it comes to cosmetic surgery?Look more closely. Eyelash transplant surgery is set to become the new must-have procedure for women - and the occasional man.
26 October 2006
THINK you've seen it all when it comes to cosmetic surgery?Look more closely. Eyelash transplant surgery is set to become the new must-have procedure for women - and the occasional man.
Using procedures pioneered by the hair-loss industry for balding men, US surgeons are using 'plug and sew' techniques to give women long, sweeping lashes once achieved only by glued-on extensions and thick lashings of mascara.
'Eyelash transplantation does for the eyes what breast augmentation does for the figure,' said Florida-based Dr Alan Bauman, a leading proponent of eyelash transplants.
'This is a brand new procedure and it is going to explode,' Dr Bauman added, during what was billed as the world's first live eyelash surgery workshop for 40 surgeons from around the world in California.
Under the procedure, a small cut is made at the back of the scalp to remove 30 or 40 hair follicles which are sewn one by one onto the patient's eyelids.
Only light sedation and local anaesthetics are used and the cost is around US$3,000 ($4,725) an eye.
amazing right? ok, i'm not saying i wan an eyelash transplant... i'm jus stunned!!! ok i admit i hav the shortest & most little eyelashes, but no, i'm not doing this kinda thing! bleah!