Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • Palm Beach Post Article "Hair Tomorrow" Feat. Dr. Alan J. Bauman

    Uploaded by

    Alan J Bauman MD
    286 views2 pages
    At the hair loss consultation, Dr. Alan Bauman examines Steve Dorfman's hairline with an iphone microscope called the HairCam. He is started on a medical regimen of minoxidil formula 82M, Low Level Laser Therapy with LaserCap, and a nutritional regimen. Other treatments might include minimally-invasive FUE/NeoGraft hair transplants which leave no linear scar. Photos of ABC "Anchorman Jim's Hair Transplant" famous from the YouTube video of the same name were also featured in the article.

    Original Title

    Palm Beach Post Article "Hair Tomorrow" feat. Dr. Alan J. Bauman

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    At the hair loss consultation, Dr. Alan Bauman examines Steve Dorfman's hairline with an iphone microscope called the HairCam. He is started on a medical regimen of minoxidil formula 82M, Low Level Laser Therapy with LaserCap, and a nutritional regimen. Other treatments might include minimally-invasive FUE/NeoGraft hair transplants which leave no linear scar. Photos of ABC "Anchorman Jim's Hair Transplant" famous from the YouTube video of the same name were also featured in the article.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    286 views2 pages

    Palm Beach Post Article "Hair Tomorrow" Feat. Dr. Alan J. Bauman

    Uploaded by

    Alan J Bauman MD
    At the hair loss consultation, Dr. Alan Bauman examines Steve Dorfman's hairline with an iphone microscope called the HairCam. He is started on a medical regimen of minoxidil formula 82M, Low Level Laser Therapy with LaserCap, and a nutritional regimen. Other treatments might include minimally-invasive FUE/NeoGraft hair transplants which leave no linear scar. Photos of ABC "Anchorman Jim's Hair Transplant" famous from the YouTube video of the same name were also featured in the article.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    of 2

    1D

    <pagelabeltag>

    SECTION D

    TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012

    ACCENT HEALTHY LIVING

    Defying your age!


    CULTURE EDITOR: Larry Aydlette (561) 820-4436 pb_accent@pbpost.com

    Flowers for Mothers Day


    Tour Mounts Botanical Garden.

    All about being the best you can be.

    STORY, 2D

    THE SCENE, 3D

    Reflecting on the top of Steves head. Columnist Steve Dorfmans hair loss is evident between a 2004 image (far left) and a recent photo.

    FROM DR. OZ:

    Tale of the tongue

    Gone todayhair tomorrow?


    Our Boomer Health reporter seeks remedies for his thinning follicles
    Albert Einstein famously stuck out his tongue, and Chinese medicine practitioners read the tongue for clues to inner health. The tongue that undulating muscle covered with pointy papillae and 10,000 taste buds that sense sweet, salty, sour and bitter has on its surface thousands of bacteria, some pro (as in probiotics) and some con (as in make your breath so bad you cant have a conversation). When everything is OK, the tongue is pinkish and sits comfortably in your mouth. Use a tongue scraper or toothbrush to remove plaque and bacteria and keep breath fresh. Sometimes, however, the tongue changes. Three disorders with no serious health consequences but lots of ick factor include black-hairy, yellow and geographic tongue. (Geographic tongue causes smooth red patches with raised edges.) These conditions may be from bacterial overgrowth, an immune system glitch or an allergy. Other tongue problems? Small ulcers on the edges of the tongue pop up from stress; lesions (raised, smooth, white areas) could indicate oral cancer; and thrush (a yeast infection) turns the tongue white. Solutions? But before trying them or other medications, try saltwater rinses along with brushing and flossing a lot. 2. Dont smoke! And stop using mouthwash or toothpaste with peroxide or with astringents such as menthol. If symptoms (especially a hard and white lesion) stay for 10 days, see your dentist or ENT (otolaryngologist). It may save your life.

    THOMAS CORDY/Staff Photographer

    Steve Dorfman has his hair density measured by hair technician Carol Dennis and Dr. Alan Bauman at the Bauman Medical Group in Boca Raton. The columnist says his hair loss since 2010 has coincided with a non-life-threatening blood condition and its treatment regimen.

    ts interesting how our self-perception and how the rest of the world perceives us is shaped throughout our lives by our hairs length and volume. For men, in our younger years the more hair we have, the older we look. However, there comes a tipping point in adulthood when the more hair we have, the younger we look. THOMAS CORDY/Staff Photographer Up until recently, Id personally never given this much thought. Why would I? I LIGHT ON TOP: Hair restoration patient Steve always had a pretty full head of hair. Dorfman examines a low-level-laser-light hat, the In my 20s, I had accepted as fact LaserCap, which he will wear every other day. my dads (erroneous) assertion that, Since youre not showing any signs experiencing recurring bouts of low-grade of balding now, you never will. (Of fever, reduced stamina and, at times, course, hed retained his lustrous, wavy overwhelming fatigue. pompadour until his dying day; not even In 2010, I was diagnosed with a non-lifechemotherapy affected it.) threatening blood condition that, among Throughout my 30s and into my early other things, left me severely anemic, 40s, my hairline and hair-growth rate hemoglobin-depleted and in need of appeared to remain uncompromised. But a few years ago, despite exercising hematological-infusion therapy. regularly and eating right, I began See BOOMER, 5D >

    Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

    By STEVE DORFMAN

    By the age of 35, twothirds of U.S. men will experience some degree of appreciable hair loss. By the age of 50, about 85 percent of men have significantly thinning hair. Approximately 25 percent of men who experience male pattern baldness begin doing so by age 21. Some 40 percent of all hair-loss sufferers in the U.S. are women. According to The Washington Post, American hair-loss sufferers spend more than $3.5 billion annually to improve their condition.
    (Source: American Hair Loss Association)

    Getting thin on top?

    1. Antibiotics may be needed.

    > For more from THE YOU DOCS, TURN TO PAGE 4D

    ADVERTISING CONTENT

    See Steves regimen versus hair transplantation, 5D

    Make Mom feel special

    Get your gray matter to see new colors


    Scientist lists aspects of emotional style that might be holding you back. Good news: You can fix them.
    a part of our identity as our fingerprints. Each of us is a colorLifes slings and arrows wheel combination of the is Harvard-educated neuroresilience, outlook, social scientist Richard J. Davidintuition, self-awareness, sons phrase for the events context and attention dimenwe spend our days ducking, sions of emotional style, he sometimes unsuccessfully. writes in his new book, The Losing out on that proEmotional Life of Your Brain motion. Getting dumped. (Hudson Street Press), a Navigating a cocktail party of boors (or bores). The stuff unique blend that describes how you perceive the world that conspires to keep us in a foul mood, despite our best and react to it, how you engage with others and how intentions. you navigate the obstacle And Davidson argues course of life. that our response to such Unlike our fingerprints, events and even to full-on tragedies, such as the death though, our emotional style of a loved one is as much can be altered. We have the
    By HEIDI STEVENS
    Chicago Tribune

    three decades studying brain chemistry. But study brain chemistry he does, which makes his findings all the more compelling. (And he did spend three months during graduate school in India and Sri Lanka studying meditation; therefore, hes entitled to sound a little like a yogi.) So, the six dimensions. Davidson, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, identifies them power, Davidson contends, as such, based on activity to live our lives and train he has identified in specific our brains in ways that will brain circuits: shift where we fall on each of the six dimensions of RESILIENCE: How slowly emotional style. or quickly you recover from That may sound more like adversity. your yoga instructor than a See BRAIN, 7D > guy who has spent the past

    The Spa at Jupiter Beach Resort


    5 North A1A, Jupiter, FL 33477 (561) 745-7177

    jupiterbeachresort.com/spa

    Two 50-minute treatments, plus a delicious Spa lunch


    *Regular price $275. Offer valid through 5/31/12

    245*

    <pagelabeltag>

    To rescue a head of hair, take action early, specialist urges


    scale that combines your hairs density (amount of Happily, I can report hairs that are growing) that, after two years of and caliber (the hairs trial-and-error treatment, thickness or quality) at Ive gotten the condition various regions on your mostly under control. scalp. Unfortunately, photos Not surprisingly, the taken earlier this year top, side and rear areas show that Ive lost control registered relatively (as if I ever had any) over highly: in the 70s. my hairline. However, the front Seemingly overnight, areas at the forehead my scalp now shines hairline and on the through my ever-thinning temples were far lower: in hairline, and my temples the 30s and 40s. have become prominent This represents enough to host Sabbath significant hair loss that, services. left unaddressed, will Whether the blood likely increase over time, condition and hair Bauman said. degradation are causally But all was not lost. connected, or merely The most important coincidental, Ill never thing is to take action know (middle-age illness relatively early which can trigger, or accelerate, youve done in order to androgenic alopecia). preserve as much of your natural hair as possible, Heeding the call he explained. What I do know is that, The biggest hairwhen the universe sends restoration mistake people you certain signals, you make, Dr. Bauman said, must pay attention. is to wait too long before Around the same time, seeking treatment: Up to I also received a query 50 percent of hair loss can from the office of Dr. Alan happen before its even Bauman, a nationally visible to the naked eye. renowned hair-restoration Considering my specialist based in Boca modest goals (restore Raton. He was interested some hairline thickness in working on an article and temple coverage), teaching boomer-age Bauman recommended a readers how to avoid the protocol of topical and oral need for hair transplantreatments. tation via non-invasive The oral: daily therapies. supplements, available Well, Bauman and I got only through hairto talking, and I lamented restoration specialists. the unsettling recession/ The topical: daily thinning of my own hair. application of liquid Bauman was intrigued. Minoxidil; the wearing Actually, he was more every other day of a lowthan intrigued he level-laser-light skull cap thought that, because I called the LaserCap. was in the early stages of The supplements and hair loss, Id be the ideal Minoxidil are pretty much candidate to guide readers industry-standard initial through the process of treatments. utilizing non-invasive However, not all hairprotocols. He even agreed restoration doctors believe to treat me pro bono. in the usefulness of laserSo, motivated by a light treatments. mixture of vanity and For instance, Dr. Victor journalistic curiosity, Loria of Palm Beach I made my way to his Gardens and Boca Raton lakefront practice for a says, Low-level laser standard evaluation. therapy is, at best, a very This included: poor treatment for hair Z A full review of loss. Results are severely my medical and family lacking, and it has only history (no baldness been FDA-approved for on Dads side, but my safety not efficacy. maternal grandfather and Cant hurt to try, uncle were both cue-ball though. smooth before age 30); According to Bauman, Z Microscopic hairWith your treatments, density and hair-caliber itll take anywhere from testing via a device called three to six months before a Folliscope; well begin to see any Z Measurements of my measurable results. hair-mass index with So, until then, Ill be the HairCheck Tracking diligently following the device; prescribed regimen Z Hair-shaft and updating you later morphology scan with the in the year. HairScan Analysis device; ~ steve_dorfman@pbpost.com Z A series of medical mug shots to serve as my before photos. All this high-tech baseline testing, which WAKE UP BEAUTIFUL is quick and painless, provides you with a Safe and Sterile HairNumber that Environment is, a numerical represenPRIVATE AND tation on a zero-to-100 > BOOMER from 1D

    THE PALM BEACH POST REAL NEWS STARTS HERE TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012

    5D

    IS IT WORTH THE COST?


    STEVES HAIRRESTORATION REGIMEN

    THOMAS CORDY/Staff photographer

    At a consultation, Dr. Alan Bauman examines Steve Dorfmans hairline with an iPhone camera and an optical accessory.

    Transplants strand-by-strand
    Perhaps no segment of the cosmetic-enhancement industry has progressed more in the past decade than that of hair-transplantation surgery. This is still a burgeoning and largely unregulated field. Nevertheless, in the hands of qualified, properly trained surgeons, todays specialized instrumentation enables hairrestoration specialists to perform restoration procedures that are virtually painless and undetectable. The difference between what we did with hair transplantation in the 1990s, and what we can do now, is like the difference between George Washingtons wooden dentures and todays porcelain veneers, says Boca Ratons Dr. Alan Bauman, an internationally recognized expert in hair-transplantation surgery. Thanks to follicleunit extraction (FUE) via advanced medical instruments, so-called donor hair can be harvested from the rear portion of the patients head (where the permanent hair grows). Then literally, strand by strand (or in tiny natural groupings known as follicular units) it is reinserted in the desired area(s) (again, literally strand by strand). Its part art, part science, explains Hair

    THE LATEST IN HAIR TRANSPLANTS

    Photo courtesy of DR. ALAN BAUMAN

    Jim Abath, a former Channel 25 newscaster and a Dr. Bauman patient.

    Transplant Institute of Miamis Dr. Bernard Nussbaum, another internationally renowned hair-transplant surgeon, who has been in the field for more than 25 years. The most sophisticated of these transplantation techniques are minimally invasive, requiring no incisions or visible re-stitching, and offer nominal discomfort/recovery time for the patient. Whats more, during the procedures, patients need to receive only local anesthesia and mild oral sedatives; theyre awake the whole time. Typically, surgeons charge on a per unit basis for the FUE procedure, and these prices tend to range from $5 to $10 per follicular unit.

    Depending on the severity of hair loss, patients usually require anywhere from 1,500 to 4,000 units grafted to achieve desired results, so these procedures can range in price from $7,500 to upwards of $40,000. Of course, hair transplantation doesnt cure patients of the underlying condition usually some form of androgenic alopecia that necessitated the procedure in the first place. Therefore, to maximize, and then maintain, the regrown hair, patients are given post-op hair-growth protocols that often include topical, oral and laser-light treatments, as well as prescription medications such as Propecia.

    One-hour medical hairloss evaluation: includes microscopic hairdensity and hair-caliber testing; hair-mass index measurements; hairshaft morphology scan; medical mug shots ($100); Daily treatments Z 10 drops of compounded Minoxidil, massaged into the temples/scalp twice a day (three-month supply: $256); Z Viviscal Professional hair-growth supplements, taken orally twice a day (three-month supply: $96); Z Appearex Biotin hair-growth supplement, taken orally once a day (three-month supply: $96); Z Wear portable LaserCap (which contains 224 individual laser-light diodes and covers the entire scalp) every other day for 30 minutes per session (cost of device: $3,000). (All services/products provided pro bono by Dr. Alan Bauman; baumanmedical.com. Steve will report on his progress later in the year.)

    HAIRRESTORATION REGULATORY ORGANIZATIONS


    American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery

    International Board of Hair Restoration Surgery International Alliance of Hair Restoration Surgeons International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery American Hair Loss Association

    Do you suffer from Diabetic Foot Ulcers?


    Would you be interested in participating in a clinical trial to research the effectiveness of an investigational device for diabetic foot ulcers? Adults age 18 or older Who have Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 or Type 2 Who have at least one ulcer that will not heal on the bottom of the foot or heel Who currently have an ulcer that has not healed within the last 30 days
    Please contact us for further discussion of your participation John Levin, DPM 561-964-7880 Orthopedic Research Institute 8188 Jog Road Suite 204 Boynton Beach, FL 33472
    6643856

    PERMANENT MAKE UP
    Full Lips ~ $450
    By Appointment - Evenings Available (Upper & lower) Expires 5/31/12

    We are looking for:

    MOTHERS DAY SPECIALS 350 Eyeliner ~ $320

    PAINLESS
    6701975

    561-799-7978

    By Owner/Artist Karen Constantine

    Member of The American Academy of Micropigmentation

    FREE Consultation and Digital Imaging All skin types and custom blended colors All sterile equipment Corrective & medical procedures 618 US HWY 1, Suite 201-A North Palm Beach, FL 33408 Within Bay Pointe Bldg.

    6697178E

    You might also like