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Hipster beards are no longer confined to the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y. — they have made their way into the mainstream as actors, politicians, athletes and other men are sporting their own scruff. That's giving some follicularly challenged men enough serious beard envy to seek a facial hair transplant.

According to a recent article at DNAInfo, some New York City doctors have noticed an uptick in the number of men who are resorting to facial hair transplants, and who pay anywhere from $3,000 to $7,000 for the procedure.

"I absolutely agree that beard transplants have grown in popularity," New York facial plastic surgeon Dr. Yael Halaas, who performs up to six procedures a month, told TODAY."Within the past three to four years, there's been a tremendous increase in patients coming every week to fill in patches in their beards, moustache or really just trying to grow a full beard where they had really little."

It may sound like a headline from The Onion, but doctors say the procedure is popular with Hasidic Jews, female to male transgenders and guys who just aren't very hairy.

While the Brooklyn lumberjack look hasn't spawned a nationwide trend —yet — the plastic surgery procedure seems to becoming more well-known.

"Because the facial hair trend is growing, there are more men interested in that look," Dr. Scot Glasberg, president elect of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) told TODAY. “Maybe in the next 10 years.”

There is typically more reluctance to get hair transplants on the face, as the procedure can be more painful than a hair transplant on the head, Glasberg said. Another reason why the transplants haven’t quite taken off yet: “Facial hair isn’t where they typically lose hair.”

While beard transplants are still unusual, they’re a real thing and not as uncommon as eyelash or pubic hair transplants, says Dr. Anthony Youn, a Michigan-based board-certified plastic surgeon

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