How India is Raising American Eyebrows

India’s Helping Bring Bushy Back

Typically, people think of male baldness when it comes to hair replacement or hair transplant surgery, but a surprising trend is surfacing.  Oddly enough, with the amount of money women pay to have their eyebrows plucked, sewn, or waxed away, there is a recent trend of actresses and supermodels sporting full, bushy eyebrows.  Actress Keira Knightley, known for her roles in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, and others have begun sporting a full-browed look.  Unfortunately, like most fashions, the masses who’ll attempt to follow in Knightley’s footsteps—the number has doubled since last year—can’t afford the transplant surgery, and low cost elective surgery in the US seems non-existent.

Thick eyebrows haven’t been fashionable since the 1980s; but, like most fashion, it just revolves from generation to generation.  Unfortunately, years of hair removal have more lasting effects than simply switching to a different type of clothes or shoes.  According to hair transplant surgeon Dr Bessam Farjo from the Institute of Trichologists, “Hair transplant surgery is the only way to restore eyebrows permanently and it's also the solution for those who naturally have very fair or sparse brows.”

How Much Does Hair Replacement Surgery Cost?

Part of the neglect for lowering the cost of elective surgery is the stigma that such procedures are only for the wealthy.  Questions like, “how much does hair replacement surgery cost,” aren’t likely to cross the minds of America’s working class men or women.  They’re more likely to look for a less expensive alternative instead of pressing the health care industry to lower the costs of elective procedures like transplant surgery.  Without patient support, it’s difficult to make a case for lowering the cost of elective surgery to make it more affordable. 

Medical Vacation Packages Make Fashion More Affordable

Although bushy eyebrows have become more fashionable, popularity alone won’t lower the cost of hair replacement as an elective surgery.  In fact, the opposite is usually true.  An increase in demand without increasing supply drives the cost upward.  Indian hospitals like Wockhardt Hospitals offer low cost elective surgeries to patients around the world, to include the increasingly popular hair replacement surgery.  Since patients are typically able to return to work within a few days after the surgery, Americans can raise thicker, fuller eyebrows at India’s sights during the their medical vacation package.