An eyebrow transplant rebuilds a brow using your own hair, moved from the back of the scalp. At Global Health Hair it is carried out with Long FUE — a technique in which the donor hair is taken without shaving it — and performed personally by Dr. Merdan Çelik, MD. Because eyebrows vary so much from one face to another, they are not sold as a fixed package: each case is assessed individually.
What is Long FUE, and why does it matter for eyebrows?
In a standard extraction the donor area is shaved, so every graft comes out as a short stub. The surgeon can see that a hair exists, but not much else about it.
In Long FUE the donor hair is left at its full length. Each graft comes out with the hair still attached, which means that at the moment it is implanted the surgeon can see two things that are otherwise invisible: which way that individual hair grows, and how much it curls.
On a scalp that information matters less, because thousands of hairs lie in broadly the same direction and the eye reads the mass rather than the individual. An eyebrow is the opposite. It is a small area — a few hundred hairs — where direction changes across its length: hairs sweep upward at the inner end, turn horizontal across the arch, and angle downward towards the tail. Every hair is visible. One graft pointing the wrong way is noticeable in a mirror at close range.
That is the whole argument for Long FUE in eyebrow work: it lets the surgeon place each hair according to what that hair actually does, rather than according to an average.
How much does an eyebrow transplant cost?
From €2,590. Eyebrows are the one procedure we do that does not fall under the all-inclusive package used for hair and beard transplants, and they cost more than either.
The reason is the technique, not the size of the area. It would be easy to assume that a few hundred hairs must be cheaper than several thousand, and that is not how it works here: eyebrow grafts are placed using Long FUE, which is slower and more demanding at every stage than the method used on a scalp. You are paying for the way each graft is taken and placed, not for how many there are.
The figure is a starting price rather than a fixed package, because what is being rebuilt varies enormously — from a thin patch at the tail of one brow to two brows constructed from almost nothing. You will receive a written quotation with the total before you commit to anything, once we have seen photographs. That rule applies to every procedure we do.
Who performs the procedure?
Dr. Merdan Çelik, MD, personally. He qualified in medicine at Trakya University School of Medicine in 1997 (diploma no. 1816), has been on the Turkish state medical register since 1998 (no. 88616), and holds the Turkish Ministry of Health’s Aesthetic Medicine Practice Certificate, issued in 2005 (no. 1111). He holds no specialist board diploma, and we do not describe him as a specialist, dermatologist or plastic surgeon.
This matters more for eyebrows than for any other procedure we offer. In much of the Turkish market the implantation is carried out by technicians while a doctor supervises — an arrangement that scales well on a scalp, where the work is repetitive across a large area. An eyebrow does not scale. It is a few hundred individually angled decisions on a part of the face people look at when they talk to you. Ask any clinic you are considering who will place the grafts, and ask in writing. Our page on doctor versus technician procedures sets out what to look for.
Who is an eyebrow transplant for?
The most common reasons are years of over-plucking that stopped the hair returning, thinning with age, scars from injury or surgery, and gaps that have simply always been there. Hair loss from a medical condition or its treatment is also common, though in those cases the underlying condition needs to be stable first.
The requirement on our side is a usable donor area on the scalp. Beyond that it is a judgement about the shape of your face and what will still look right in ten years — brow fashions change, and a transplanted brow does not.
Will it need trimming?
Yes, and this is the part worth understanding before you decide. Scalp hair keeps the growth habit of scalp hair after it is moved: it grows longer than eyebrow hair does and will need trimming, typically every few weeks. It also tends to be straighter. Over time it usually adapts somewhat to its new location, but the trimming does not stop.
Anyone telling you a transplanted eyebrow behaves exactly like the original is not describing the procedure accurately.
What does recovery involve?
Small crusts form around each implanted hair and clear over roughly the first week. Because the area is small, most patients find the visible phase shorter than for a scalp procedure.
Then the transplanted hairs fall out, usually within the first few weeks. This is expected and it is not a failed result — the follicle remains and re-grows. New growth generally begins at around three to four months and the brow is judged at twelve. The pattern is the same as for a scalp transplant, and our recovery timeline explains each stage.
Do you also perform beard transplants?
Yes. A beard transplant follows the same all-inclusive pricing as a hair transplant, from €1,990, and is also performed by Dr. Çelik personally.
Get an assessment
Send clear photographs of your brows — straight on and from each side, in daylight — by WhatsApp to +34 648 423 777 or to [email protected]. Dr. Çelik will assess them himself and you will receive a written quotation with the total price. The assessment is free, and if the honest answer is that a transplant is not the right course for you, that is the answer you will get.