Platelet Enriched Plasma Hair Treatment
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What is Platelet enriched plasma hair treatment?
Platelet-rich plasma (Platelet enriched plasma) therapy is a hair regrowth method where your plasma cells encourage hair growth on your scalp.
Platelet-rich plasma is extracted from your blood and injected into your scalp. A platelet-rich-plasma contains a lot of nutrients. These nutrients stimulate the hair follicles in your scalp. Eventually, it results in hair regrowth.
How is the procedure of Platelet enriched plasma hair treatment performed?
Let us breakdown the Platelet enriched plasma procedure step by step:
- Blood is drawn from the patient’s arm using a butterfly needle and transferred in the small tube.
- The tube is then placed in Centrifuge, a special machine that separates the blood components according to their density. The blood tube rotates in the Centrifuge on a permanent axis. This process takes 10 minutes to complete, and blood is separated into 3 layers:
- Platelets Rich Plasma (Top Layer)
- White Blood Cells & Platelets (Centre Layer)
- Red Blood Cells (Base Layer)
- Platelet enriched plasma is filled into the syringe and is injected in the areas where there are bald patches on the scalp to enable hair growth.
Noticeable hair growth is visible to the naked eye after 6-12 months. The results may differ from person to person.
The success rate of Platelet enriched plasma hair treatment
The success rate for Platelet enriched plasma treatment is around 60%-50% in male patients. It is observed men regrow about 30% of the hair they’ve lost.
The success rate for Platelet enriched plasma treatment is around 80%-90% in female patients. Women are observed to get benefited from Platelet enriched plasma treatment.
What is the cost of Platelet enriched plasma hair treatment?
The Platelet enriched plasma hair transplant treatment cost is between Rs. 3000 to Rs. 3500.
Factors affecting the cost of Platelet enriched plasma treatment:
- Experience of the surgeon
- Quality of equipment and tools used for the procedure
- Number of sessions required which depends on the grade of baldness
- The availability of grafts, i.e., if enough grafts are not available on the scalp, it needs to be extracted from other body parts. The other body parts are susceptible to hair removal. Thus, this procedure needs an expert’s precision. This leads to an increase in the cost of the Platelet enriched plasma procedure.
Who is eligible for Platelet enriched plasma hair treatment?
- Platelet enriched plasma is recommended for individuals who have developed bald patches on their scalp due to hair fall and hair thinning over a period.
- Platelet enriched plasma delivers better results on individuals who have faced hair loss issues recently. It does become a challenge in reactivating dormant hair follicles to function again.
- Platelet enriched plasma is not suitable for a bald scalp.
Benefits of Platelet enriched plasma hair treatment:
- Our Platelet enriched plasma hair treatment will give you the least amount of irritation.
- You do not have to worry about getting a scar on your scalp as it is a non-surgical process.
- Platelet enriched plasma process is minimally invasive; hence it is safe.
- It returns your natural hair density.
- Platelet enriched plasma hair treatment has no side effects in the long run.
- The cost of the Platelet enriched plasma treatment is less than other hair loss surgeries, like hair transplants
