Eyebrow transplantation: alternative body sites as a donor source.

To the Editor: Aesthetic improvement of eyebrows or their reconstruction after damage caused by trauma or burns is not an uncommon procedure in the field of hair transplantation. The usual hair donor source for such transplantation is the scalp-occipital area. 2, 3 However, this option is not feasible in some instances because the hair is both too coarse and grows excessively long for the intended eyebrow recipient site. One alternative for the donor source is leg hair, which has been successfully used to improve hairlines in males. Advantages of using leg hair for eyebrow transplantation are that it is significantly finer compared with typical head hair, and naturally short as a result of a brief anagen (growth) phase. 5,6 The latter results in leg hair being similar in length to eyebrow hair, which also permits transplanted leg-to-eyebrow hair to be trimmed much less frequently compared with scalp hair.