Millions of men and women suffer from hair loss but new hair restoration treatments are now available to treat anything from male/female pattern baldness to thinning hair. Options are not just a toupee or wearing a cap all the time, but medical procedures that can transfer hair from one site to another or simply slowing hair loss down. As seen on ABC Good Morning America, leading hair restoration provider in Boca Raton, Florida, Dr. Alan Bauman speaks about the latest treatments for hair loss.
Recently featured in The New York Times, a new treatment is an off-label use of an eyelash enhancer. While not FDA approved to treat hair loss, Dr. Bauman has been prescribing a generic form of bimatoprost, the active ingredient in eyelash enhancers. He claims that this has worked on 70 percent of his patients—causing hair to thicken, appearing stronger and healthier where the bimatoprost is applied.
Another topical option that Dr. Bauman prescribes is minoxidil. 5 and 2 percent minoxidil is found in over-the-counter hair loss treatments such as Rogaine. Dr. Bauman often suggests combining minoxidil with laser hair loss therapy for at-home hair restoration treatments. Low level laser therapy is a noninvasive hair loss treatment that can be administered with the use of a laser comb or brush that can improve the appearance of hair.
These hair loss procedures only encourage hair growth and enhancement in existing hair follicles. For more extreme cases of hair loss, where hair is not just thinning but is gone, Dr. Bauman also performs the FUE (follicular unit extraction) hair transplantation. According to Dr. Bauman, FUE technique is the least invasive transplant available and does not leave behind a linear scar. Without the use of scalpels, stitches or staples, during follicular unit extraction, Dr. Bauman harvests follicular units from a donor site and transplants them to scalp areas in need of hair restoration.
