Eyelash Transplants

Just when you think you’ve seen all the cosmetic surgery procedures surgeons could come up with, here comes another one which, from the way things look, will soon become a commonly requested procedure.

Eyelash transplant surgery wants to become the new must-have procedure for women — and the occasional man — convinced that beauty is not so much in the eye of the beholder as in front of the eye itself.

Using procedures pioneered by the hair loss industry for balding men, 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.

And just like human hair — for that is the origin — these lashes just keep on growing. [AbcNews]

Come to think of it, long eyelashes indeed make for a more attractive look. Obviously, it is for this reason that many women wear fake ones. But with this new procedure, women—or men for that matter—won’t need to.

But how is eyelash transplant surgery done? AbcNews tells us more:

Under the procedure, a small incision is made at the back of the scalp to remove 30 or 40 hair follicles which are carefully sewn one by one onto the patient's eyelids. Only light sedation and local anesthetics are used and the cost is around $3,000 an eye.

The technique was first confined to patients who had suffered burns or congenital malformations of the eye. But word spread and about 80 percent are now done for cosmetic reasons.

Aint that nice.