New Face of Plastic Surgery: Eyebrows, Belly Buttons and Feet

Sept. 1, 2007 — -- From head to toe, women everywhere are seeking the hottest, newest trends in cosmetic surgery.

People who feel they have cosmetic flaws that they thought they couldn't change are now realizing that plastic surgeons can help them, plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Rose said.

These days, it seems getting the perfect eyebrows means going under the knife. Eyebrow transplantation surgery, a simple in-office procedure that adds volume to your brows, is all the rage.

Debra Prince, a recent patient said, "as a child, I had fairly thick eyebrows, and of course as most girls did, I plucked them too much. But then later in life, I developed a thyroid condition and I noticed that my eyebrows got significantly thinner."

Hair is taken from a "donor" area at the back of Debra's scalp, divided into individual hair follicles and then artistically placed in the eyebrow area.

"After the transplant, it takes around three months for the follicle to settle in, realize it has its new home and then start to grow," explained Dr. Ken Wahenik, the plastic surgeon who performed the surgery.

Kelly Becker received eyebrow transplants one year ago, but for an entirely different reason. She went from bare to bold.

"It's given me a lot more self confidence. I think before I kind of hid behind these brows that I would draw on, afraid for people to see me without them," Becker said.

Bikini babes everywhere have long lamented the plight of the perfect belly button: innie or outtie? Even celebrities like Kelly Ripa, whose outtie has been airbrushed to look like an innie many times, have joked about having the surgery.

Now, that surgery is a perfectly feasible reality called "umbilicoplasty."

It can be easily explained as transforming an outie belly button into an innie belly button," Dr. Rose said.

Alyssa Jaranko's belly button inverted after having children. A fitness instructor and mother of three, she knew that umbilicoplasty was right for her. "All the exercise I could do in the world, was not gonna fix this skin," she said.