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Welcome to BaumanBlog.com, a place for personal notes, thoughts and updates about our medical practice, Bauman Medical Group.   Depending on the day, you'll likely find announcements, cutting-edge research, out-of-the-box ideas, or perhaps even unpolished, controversial theories appearing here first.  Also blogging on this account is the energetic and passionate Liz Ashe, Director of Patient Education at Bauman Medical Group.  Liz and I look forward to your feedback and comments as the journey toward providing the best medical treatments for our patients (or any journey toward success) is much like a rocketship's flight... always in a constant state of correction!  Enjoy! 
Sincerely, Dr. B. and Staff

Summer Survival Guide For Your Skin & Hair | Health | GalTime | Dr Alan Bauman

Summer weather is finally here and many of us will be heading to the beach, poolside, or backyard BBQs to enjoy the sunshine. And though many of us look as the summer months a great opportunity to relax…it can be a particularly stressful time for our skin and hair.

Skincare and hair experts agree that the summer months are uniquely hard on our skin and hair but don't worry, you can still safely enjoy some long awaited time outside by following a few great tips. 

How to protect your skin this summer… 

via galtime.com

Some healthy tips for skin and hair for the summertime. Danielle Miller collected some advice from Dermatologists, Hair Doctors and Nutritionists. --DrB

American Hair Loss Council - Lecture on Medical Management of Hair Loss

Hair Loss Management AHLC Dr. Alan J. Bauman 05-2012

View more presentations from Bauman Medical Group - Hair Transplants and Hair Loss Treatments

Alan J. Bauman, M.D. is a full-time Hair Restoration Physician in practice in Boca Raton, Florida.  He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery and a Certified Faculty Member of the American Hair Loss Council. 

"Not Your Father's Hair Transplant" airing Tonight 11pmET on NBC WPTV Palm Beach

What's new in hair transplant technology?  Less invasive procedures, like NeoGraft FUE, allow for hair follicle harvesting without the need for a scalpel or stitches in the donor area, leaving NO linear scar to hide.  Recovery is shorter, more comfortable and less restricted.  In fact, non-contact athletic activity may resume in just three days. In about a week, the healing is complete. 

Artistic placement of harvested grafts, which contain as little as a single hair follicle, are used to recreate natural and permanent, living and growing results in the hairline, frontal or crown areas for male and female patients.

Although scalp hair would be the best and most preferred match for scalp hair restorations, NeoGraft FUE also allows for harvesting of non-scalp body-hair follicles, such as beard, chest and even leg hair in specialized cases.

For more information on less invasive hair transplants with NeoGraft FUE technique pioneered by Dr. Alan J. Bauman, M.D. visit www.baumanmedical.com

 

 

 

FUE NeoGraft Body Hair Transplants Move Beard Hair To Scalp

Body Hair Transplants
In general, the preferred Donor Area for hair transplantation is the scalp. However in some cases, other areas of the body, such as the beard, may be used as a source of transplantable hair follicles to accomplish certain hair restoration goals. At Bauman Medical Group, beard hair and other sources of body hair are harvested most commonly using the minimally invasive no-scalpel NeoGraft FUE technique.

Why Beard Hair Transplantion (BHT)? The most common applications of Body Hair or Beard Hair Transplant harvesting is donor scar camouflage, and replenishing a depleted donor area.

Linear scar camouflage - Instead of harvesting hair follicles from the scalp, beard hair follicles can be obtained and transplanted into a scar for camouflage or repair purposes. Recently published reports of Body Hair Transplants in the Journal of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery support this concept. In the recent article by a respected colleague, Dr. S. Umar, he described his Beard Hair transplantation techniques for linear scar camouflage.
Crown/vertex density - If Scalp Donor Hair is in short supply, beard hair can be harvested and transplanted into the crown or vertex area.
Donor Area Replenishment - As hair styles change, patients who have had a significant amount of hair transplants may eventually desire more density in their donor area. Beard or Body Hair Transplantation can 'recharge' a donor area by adding follicles into a Donor Area weakened by previous hair transplant procedures.

Beard Hair Transplant Risks:
Even from casual observation it is easy to see that Beard Hair typically does not posses the same qualities as scalp hair. Does this pose a risk for Body Hair or Beard Hair Transplantation? Differences in texture, curl, color, caliber, maximum length and even hair growth rates of Body Hair or Beard Hair may be significantly different than scalp hair. Dr. Alan Bauman believes that the use of Body or Beard Hair as a source for donor follicles in hair transplantation requires therefore a careful clinical decision and discussion with the patient. As an extreme example, it would be prudent to avoid the use of coarse, curly beard hair for transplantation into the hairline in a patient with thin, straight scalp hair. However, a small number of coarse curly beard hairs strategically implanted between existing hair follicles in a thinning crown can deliver significant fullness and improvement in scalp coverage without using precious Scalp Donor Hair.

Body Hair Transplants In the Media:
The recent raunchy Saturday Night Live skit which spoofed an infomercial from a large chain of hair transplant clinics may be an unwitting, yet perhaps the starkest example of art imitating life that the hair transplant industry has seen. In the SNL skit, hair loss patients received pubic hair transplants which resulted in, let's just say, a 'significantly' different hair texture, providing the comedic element to the segment. It's unclear whether or not the writers knew that body hair transplants and specifically pubic hair transplants were possible, but they did illustrate the primary potential pitfall of choosing a Donor Area which is an inexact match for the scalp!

How to Harvest Body Hair for Transplantation:
Because the low density of beard hair and other body hair found on the chest, back or abdomen (belly) is low, a linear or strip harvest--while possible--is not typically recommended. Most commonly, the delicate microsurgical harvesting of Body Hair of the beard, chest or other zone is performed by Dr. Bauman with the less invasive NeoGraft FUE approach which leaves no linear scar to hide.

The tiny contra-angle minimal-depth NeoGraft handpiece fitted with a 0.7mm tip is well suited for body hair harvesting. After local anesthesia is applied, the follicles are harvested. Unlike scalp hair follicles which are typically found in groupings averaging 2.4 follicles/follicular unit or graft, body hair groupings contain significantly fewer follicles per follicular unit. For example, beard follicles are typically found in groups of one or two follicles only, whereas scalp hair follicles are found in mostly groups of two and three.

This means that for every graft and for every similarly-sized procedure much less hair is harvested and implanted when performing body hair transplantation.

Body Hair "Test Procedures"
At Bauman Medical Group, often patients will prefer to undergo a small body hair transplant test procedure in an inconspicuous place to determine if a Body Hair Transplant is right for them. The test procedure reveals not only how well the transplanted hair matches the scalp hair in the area of concern, but also how the non-scalp donor are heals from the procedure. A Body Hair Transplant 'test procedure' usually involves only the harvesting and implantation of a few dozen grafts and is relatively inexpensive and quick compared to a 'full' body hair transplant procedure.

Boomer Health Reporter Seeks Remedies for Thinning Follicles

 

Read the hair loss / hair transplant article: http://hai.rs/KIWwgk
Download the hair loss / hair transplant article: http://hai.rs/KKAQeo

When Palm Beach Post columnist had thinning hair issues, he sought the advice of Hair Restoration Physician, Dr. Alan J. Bauman, M.D. of Bauman Medical Group in Boca Raton.  His evaluation and treatment regimen has been initiated and documented by this comprehensive article on hair loss and its non-invasive treatment, including HairCheck measurements, laser therapy with LaserCap, Minoxidil and nutritional intervention.

Additional information on hair transplantation using NeoGraft / FUE accompanied the article in a separate piece which also highlighted West Palm Beach ABC News Anchor Jim Abath's hair transplant results.

 

 

 

"Gone today, hair tomorrow?" by Steve Dorfman

It's interesting how our self-perception - and how the rest of the world perceives us - is shaped throughout our lives by our hair's 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.

via www.palmbeachpost.com

For more information about the evaluation and treatment of male or female pattern hair loss, please contact Hair Restoration Physician, Dr. Alan J. Bauman, at http://www.baumanmedical.com.

HairCam iPhone Microscope for Hair Loss Diagnosis and Tracking

"iPhone-ography" or perhaps "iPhone-oscopy...?" It seems like everyone these days is talking about what their iPhone can do and "hair doctors" are no different...

Video scalp microscopy just got easier with Dr. Alan Bauman's HairCam™. At the time of your in-office consultation or follow-up appointment, Dr. Bauman may use the HairCam™ to look at your hair and scalp using 30-80x magnification combined with a dual-polarized light source. The quality and quantity of hair growing from a given area of scalp can easily be evaluated within minutes. Using the iPhone's on-board eight megapixel camera, high-resolution images can be obtained and transferred to your electronic medical record. At a future date, repeat high-resolution photos can be obtained from the same area of the scalp using a stereotactic scalp-mapping tool.

Can HairCam™ predict hair loss?
No doctor or machine can predict hair loss with absolute certainty. However, in a person who has not begun any hair growth treatment, a high degree of miniaturized hairs in a given area of scalp could mean that hair density is at risk and the progression of hair loss is highly likely.

Can HairCam™ tell if my hair growth treatment is working?
By comparing images taken in the same area of scalp over time, density and hair caliber can be evaluated. When this information is correlated with other information such as Global Photography and HairCheck™ measurements, scientific conclusions can be drawn.

Can I order my own HairCam™?
Actually, yes! Several versions of the HairCam™ are now available from Bauman Medical Group, ranging in price from $49 to $1299. Please contact doctorb@baumanmedical.com for more information on the HairCam™.

See HairCam™ in action in the following videos:
HairCam on FOX Miami
HairCam on ABC Good Morning America
Loop Video of HairCam in action

Fully functional hair follicle regeneration through the rearrangement of stem cells: Nature Communications

Fully functional hair follicle regeneration through the rearrangement of stem cells and their niches

Koh-ei Toyoshima, Kyosuke Asakawa, Naoko Ishibashi, Hiroshi Toki, Miho Ogawa, Tomoko Hasegawa, Tarou Irié, Tetsuhiko Tachikawa, Akio Sato, Akira Takeda & Takashi Tsuji

Organ replacement regenerative therapy is purported to enable the replacement of organs damaged by disease, injury or aging in the foreseeable future. Here we demonstrate fully functional hair organ regeneration via the intracutaneous transplantation of a bioengineered pelage and vibrissa follicle germ. The pelage and vibrissae are reconstituted with embryonic skin-derived cells and adult vibrissa stem cell region-derived cells, respectively. The bioengineered hair follicle develops the correct structures and forms proper connections with surrounding host tissues such as the epidermis, arrector pili muscle and nerve fibres. The bioengineered follicles also show restored hair cycles and piloerection through the rearrangement of follicular stem cells and their niches. This study thus reveals the potential applications of adult tissue-derived follicular stem cells as a bioengineered organ replacement therapy..

via www.nature.com

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3/n4/carousel/ncomms1784-f2.jpg

 

As mentioned in the article, the researchers do not expect to be able to mutliply large numbers of follicles which would be necessary for those with male pattern baldness, but as technology improves, who knows?? It will be interesting to see where hair cloning research takes us in the future. --Dr. Alan Bauman

 

 

Hair Loss in Women Who Undergo Weight Loss Surgery

Nutr Hosp. http://www.nutricionhospitalaria.com 2011 Aug;26(4):856-62.

Alopecia in women with severe and morbid obesity who undergo bariatric surgery.

Rojas P, Gosch M, Basfi-Fer K, Carrasco F, Codoceo J, Inostroza J, Valencia A, Adjemian D, Rojas J, Díaz E, Riffo A, Papapietro K, Csendes A, Ruz M.

Source

Departamento de Nutrición, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Abstract

Introduction: Bariatric surgery leads to a significant body weight reduction although it is associated to a higher risk of presenting some nutritional deficiencies. A common complication, little studied and mainly related to zinc deficiency is alopecia. Objectives: To compare the nutritional status of zinc, iron, copper, selenium and protein-visceral in women with different degrees of hair loss at 6 months after gastric bypass or tubular gastrectomy. Methods: The patients were categorized into two groups according to the degree of hair loss: group 1 or mild loss (n = 42) and group 2 or severe hair loss (n = 45). Zinc, iron, copper, and selenium, as well as the indicators of the nutritional status of zinc, iron, copper, and protein visceral were assessed before and after 6 months of the surgery. Results: In both groups there was a significant body weight reduction at 6 months post-surgery (-38.9% ± 16.4%). Patients in group 1 presented a significantly higher intake of zinc (20.6 ± 8.1 vs. 17.1 ± 7.7 mg/d) and iron (39.7 ± 35.9 vs. 23.8 ± 21.3 mg/d.), and lower compromise in the nutritional status of zinc and iron than group 2. However, patients in group 2 had lower compromise in the nutritional status of copper. There were no differences regarding the plasma concentrations of albumin. Conclusions: The patients having lower hair loss at six months after surgery had higher zinc and iron intake and lower compromise of the nutritional status of both minerals.

 

It is likely that bariatric surgery and crash dieting have quite a bit in common when it comes to the potential for nutritional and metabolic imbalance.  Careful nutritional guidance after bariatric surgery is important for maintaining body-health.  It would have been interesting to see if those women with increased hair loss post-bariatric surgery had an underlying genetic risk for hereditary hair thinning...  That would be a simple cheek swab/DNA test using the HairDX genetic test kit.   At Bauman Medical Group, we treat many hair loss patients who are on weight loss programs and we know that good nutrition is an important factor.  Often an underlying tendency toward female hair loss is revealed by poor nutrition. Unfortunately, correction of the nutritional state does not always allow the hair to return to 'normal.'  Aside from Zinc supplementation in thsese cases, other interventions might include Laser Therapy (LaserCap), Minoxidil (Formula 82M), Viviscal, mega-dose Biotin or hair transplant surgery.

--Alan J. Bauman, M.D.

Diplomate, American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery

Member, International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery

 

 

| 닥터세미나 | > Doctors Seminar on FUE/FUT hair transplant in Korea

Doctor Seminar introduces to you the updated ‘Hair Restoration Live Surgery Workshop’ and would like to share updated techniques and state-of-art procedures of Hair Restoration. Follicular unit transplantation (FUT) and follicular unit extraction (FUE) are recent and widely discussed surgical procedures for hair restoration. Please join and get a valuable knowledge of recent development and connection with doctors from all over the world.

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Dr. Jong Phil Choi, Director of JP Plastic Surgery (Seoul, Korea) is hosting a Live Surgery Workshop on FUE / FUT hair transplantation techniques of harvesting and implantation. For more info for physicians and surgeons wanting to learn techniques for scalp hair transplants and eyebrow transplants, visit www.doctorseminar.com