PRP is a concentrated portion of your blood generally injected back into your body at specific sites to promote healing.

Blood is comprised of many things, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, plasma, and growth factors. When your body, for example your skin, is wounded, the wound sends out signals that there has been a disruption and the healing cascade starts, with the end result of forming new collagen/skin. Growth factors are part of the healing cascade and help to start the healing process.

PRP has been studied in hair restoration, as well as other medical fields like wound healing, joints, and skin for the past few years. While there are many reasons why some people may start to have thinning hair, there have not been to date any perfect solutions.

While PRP is a great tool, it is not a cure-all. It is not a substitute for a hair transplant, where your healthy active hair follicles are physically redistributed around your scalp. (However, we think it works very well in conjunction/preparation with this surgery.)

It does not grow hair where the follicles are already dormant. This procedure is best for prevention of further thinning of hair.

Promoting hair growth

By treating male pattern baldness (androgenic alopecia), PRP therapy can encourage hair growth and counteract hair loss. PRP is able to prolong the hair cycle’s growth phase and reverse the shrinking of the hair follicles caused by male pattern baldness. Research has concluded that PRP therapy is “a simple, cost-effective and feasible treatment option for androgenic alopecia, with high overall patient satisfaction”.