PRP Treatment
PRP Treatment
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is a treatment that doctors use to accelerate healing in various areas of the body. It helps restore hair growth after your hair transplant.
PRP ensures that stronger and healthier hairs come out of the grafts. PRP also speeds up the result. After the hair transplant, PRP can be applied a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 times a year. Research shows that after 5 times it no longer has an effect.
After PRP treatment, the hair cannot be washed for 24 hours. Apart from not taking a shower, you can do everything else in your daily life. There should be 3 weeks to 1 month between the 2 treatments. It is not a painful procedure and takes a total of 45 minutes to 1 hour
PRP (platelet-rich plasma) therapy for hair loss is a three-step medical treatment in which a person’s blood is drawn, processed, and then injected into the scalp.
Step 1
Your blood is drawn — typically from your arm — and put into a centrifuge (a machine that spins rapidly to separate fluids of different densities).
Step 2
After about 10 minutes in the centrifuge, your blood will have separated into in three layers:
- platelet-poor plasma
- platelet-rich plasma
- red blood cells
Step 3
The platelet-rich plasma is drawn up into a syringe and then injected into areas of the scalp that need increased hair growth.
PRP Application Reasons and Benefits
PRP’s application to the person is very useful and safe. Improvement results are long-term. More importantly, it contains rejuvenating and constructive effects. That makes the signs of rejuvenation appear. Apart from forming fresh collagen, it supports all vital functions of the skin; refills, refreshes and rejuvenates the skin. In this way, it is effective in the elimination of wrinkles and lines.
It prevents hair loss by strengthening hair; makes the scalp flashy and softer; minimizes any damage such as wound or crack, which may occur during or after the process of operation; quickly configures and strengthens the skin against skin problems caused by various operations; reduces pain.
How is Hair Treatment done with PRP?
The predicted number of hair loss per day is about 100-150 strands. If the number is higher than this, hair loss should be taken seriously and a specialist should be consulted. This will allow you to achieve satisfactory results in PRP hair treatment. During the PRP process, the patient’s own blood is taken and passed through a device to stay connected to a process. In this process, the section which is called fibroblast and which feds and strengthens the roots is removed and injected into the area where hair loss is detected. PRP method is especially effective in genetic and hereditary loss. Hair treatment with PRP usually ends in a period of 3-4 months. In this process, it is applied in periods of 30 minutes in 15 day periods.At the end of the improvement process applied in this frequency, it is enough to apply it once a year.
How is Hair Transplantation done with PRP?
There is a certain period of time during this process for the hair roots from the donor area that will be transplanted to the recipient region. In this time, the loss of hair follicles may occur. During this time, keeping hair follicles alive is vital for hair transplantation. The obtained roots, which are of such importance for the hair transplantation are kept in specially prepared solutions in a cooled place.
It is useful to add PRP into the retention solutions or wash the hair follicles only with the PRP solution. It also accelerates the effects. The intended effect can be explained as increasing the life span of the hair follicles, accelerating the wound treatment, and the faster action of the hair follicles to produce hair.
The most important benefit of PRP apart from its contribution to the processing of hair follicles is its support for this process in the right now hair transplantation operation. Following hair transplantation, FUE method with PRP support is applied whose primariy aim is to ensure the persistence of hair follicles. This method also helps to complete the healing process after hair transplantation. Moreover, it rejuvenates and revitalizes the newly transplanted hair follicles after hair transplantation.
Does PRP have any side effects?
As we mentioned in our previous explanations, there is no possibility of allergic reaction or infection because the blood applied in the PRP is the person’s own blood. It is not like any other substance that is taken into the body. It does not lead to unexpected results.
The effect of the PRP can be observed differently in each person applied. PRP is a completely unique and helpful method. After the operation it is very important to ensure that one’s expectations and reality are the same. This method is a support method which is selected and implemented as an aid only for recovery.