PRP Hair Treatment

What is PRP Hair Treatment?

Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP) or also called PRP therapy is a proactive therapeutic option for male and female patrons suffering hair loss. PRP is a non-surgical therapeutic alternative based on a detailed understanding of wound and tissue healing. PRP includes special cells called Platelets that can help in the regeneration of the hair follicles. Platelets are vital healing blocks in human blood that help to boost the rate and degree of tissue healing and regeneration. With the help of this therapy for hair stimulation, one can aim to stimulate newly implanted hair follicles or inactive follicles into an active development phase thus leading to more hair growth. PRP is natural and safe as the procedure concentrates the good quality cells from your blood and injects them directly back into the portion of the scalp where it is required. At Trichohom Clinic, we do a complete analysis of the hair issues, and then with an individual consultation with the patient, we can best decide the course of action that needs to be applied.

PRP is blood plasma carrying a concentration of platelets multiple times greater than what occurs normally in blood. PRP is “autologous”, which means it comes from the patient’s own body itself. This is similar to the process of having a forbearing donate their own blood before a surgical procedure, to be used in preference to blood from the hospital blood bank if a transfusion is required. One more example is the moving and transplantation of a patient’s own skin for doing a plastic surgery procedure. As PRP is autologous, there is no potential for causing a foreign-body immunologic reaction. PRP is immunologically neutral.

Hair is one of the primary aspects in defining the looks and personality of the person. That is why people worry when they notice plenty of hair fall. Hair loss to some extent is fine but when it continues increasing it becomes a reason for distress in men and women. The losing of hair disturbs both the men and women equally therefore they search for how it can be solved. The solution to hair loss can be PRP Therapy.

What are Platelets?

Platelets are biological components of blood, besides the red and white blood cells. Different from red and white blood cells, platelets don’t have a nucleus and hence do not qualify to be considered “cells”. They are somewhat smaller in size than red and white blood cells.

Platelets are the best elements of the blood clotting system. When a wound or injury interrupts a blood vessel and causes bleeding, platelets quickly get in movement and contribute to the formation of a clot that stems the blood-flow. But platelets are beyond just first-line responders to a bleeding wound. Every platelet is also a biochemical warehouse of regulatory, signaling, and growth-factor molecules that take part in the recovery and healing of tissue and emergency response to injury.

How PRP is Made?

Platelets for PRP are taken from a patient’s own blood:

Blood is derived from a patient’s arm with the help of a syringe, as it would be for any laboratory procedure.

The tubes containing taken blood are placed in a centrifuge and spun for a specific time.

The centrifuge device “spins down” the platelets and the red and white blood cells and concentrates them at various levels in the tubes. Blood plasma that is rich in platelets is taken off from the proper level. Plasma defined as platelet-rich plasma carries 4 to 8 times the count of platelets per cubic centimeter found in normal plasma. With a little more preparation, the PRP is ready to be applied.

PRP promotes hair development from follicles by the action of platelet growth factors on hair follicle stem cells. The platelet growth factors contain follicle stem cells to move from an inactive state to an active state that starts the process of hair production.

To restrengthen Dormant Hair Follicles the platelet growth factors can “wake up” inactive hair follicles and start the production of new hair. PRP is applied after scalp skin is slightly injured to cause platelets to release growth factors at the injury site. After this process is done, enhanced hair diameter and hair growth are noted in the coming few months.

Safety, Complications, Contraindications to Use of PRP

The PRP/Stem cell treatment is performed in one hour, and then, after that, you can continue with the normal activities. It is totally safe, pain-free, and does not have any side effects. Additionally, after the treatment is done, no special precaution is required.

 Advantages of PRP

• • Minimal downtime.
  • It is suitable for all skin types.
  • PRP technique helps to protect hair grafts throughout a hair treatment.
  • There are no topical and oral medications needed to complete PRP treatment.
  • PRP can motivate hair growth in a wide range of hair fall conditions like androgenetic alopecia and alopecia areata.
  • This PRP treatment can be incorporated with a hair treatment or can be done as a solo treatment too.

How effective is PRP?

PRP hair treatment may have extreme results, depending on the patient’s individual biology. Most of the patients start finding the result in a few months. Most patients require nearly 3 sessions initially (once a month) to see the optimal results. PRP procedure can give really effective results. Patients who are treated via PRP therapy, obtain greater hair growth as compared to other procedures.

What conditions can PRP be used to treat?

PRP can be used to serve many medical fields like dentistry, sports medicine, aesthetics, hair regeneration, and skin rejuvenation. PRP can be used as an adjuvant treatment while dental redevelopment. It can assist aid in tissue regeneration giving a micro equivalent that supports growth. PRP treatment can also assist with dental thickening when applied during surgery.

PRP can also help to improve your skin texture and skin elasticity. PRP procedure assists refinement in skin smoothness, elasticity, and scariness which is acquired after 3 sessions of PRP injections. PRP also have been successfully combined into facelift procedures.

Platelet Rich Plasma Treatment Encourages Hair Growth 

In the PRP procedure, the platelets which are concentrated from plasma can give healing properties and growth factors that motivate hair growth. PRP can provide very promising results for hair fall patients.

Encouraging Long-Term Result 

The result of the PRP procedure is gentle and can vary from patient to patient. Usually, after three weeks, an overall refinement in skin texture, hydration, and tone can be noticed. Then, in 3 to 6 weeks, new collagen is formed and new blood vessels are made leading to overall progress in skin appearance. Therefore, the depletion of fine lines and improvements to skin elasticity will be continuing for a couple of months. As per research, the impact of cosmetic PRP can last from one year to two years.

PRP can also be used with Alopecia Areata 

PRP treatment is dramatically used by hair fall specialists to treat hair loss, especially, for genetic hair loss. As per current evidence suggestions, it assists 50-70 % of patients with genetic hair loss problems. Whether PRP helps other kinds of hair loss conditions is not clear.

Alopecia areata is an autoimmune condition that impacts nearly 2 % of the world. In this condition, inflammation at the base of the hair follicle creates the hair to fall out. Patients generally have circular patches of hair fall but there are also possibilities that total hair loss occurs. Typical treatment for alopecia areata includes steroid injections to suppress the inflammation at the root of the hair follicle and it helps a great proportion of patients to redevelop hair.