06
Jul
Benefits of PRP in Donor Sites
It has been objectively established that wounds, both acute and chronic, treated with PRP heal sooner, with less scar collagen and with a higher tensile strength. The goal in Hair Transplantation harvesting, Strip or FUE, is to decrease scaring and this study below demonstrates...
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Jul
Back to the Future!
Utilizing PRP cellular therapy in Hair Transplantation While utilizing growth factors/extracellular matrix/stem cell/cultured hair cells complexes may be the future of hair multiplication, the current “State of the Art”, is and will be for quite some time, surg...
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Jul
PRP Hair Miniaturization Study
Research Grant ReportThis research grant, “The Effects of Autologus Platelet Rich Plasma and Various Growth Factors on Non-transplanted Miniaturized Hair”, was awarded to Joseph F. Greco and Robert Brandt by the International Society of Hair Restoration in 2007 and t...
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Jul
The Second Generation PRP
Orogen Plus (PRP with a “protein matrix”)What is the importance of a “matrix”? Think of a matrix as a “scaffold”. The scaffold entraps growth factors allowing the healing capable cells to multiply and remold the area of injury. Figure 1(above...
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Jul
What are the Healing Cells in PRP?
(Platelets contain Proteins or Growth Factors) When platelets become activated they change shape (Fig 2) and emit growth factors that send chemical signals like emails and faxes to other growth factors to come back to the injured area where angiogenesis (formation of new blood c...
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Jul
What is PRP?
Platelet Rich PlasmaPlasma is the liquid component of blood, made mostly of water and acts as a transporter for cells. Plasma also contains fibrinogen, a protein that acts like a net and catches platelets at a wound site to form a clot. Blood contains plasma, red blood cells (RB...
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Jul
Reversing Male Pattern Baldness
Can Infusion of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Reverse Miniaturization of Non-Transplanted Hair? YES! Case StudyThis 26 year old patient was unable to take finasteride (Propecia™) do to side effects. Hair transplantation was done in the anterior hair line and the posterior cr...
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Jul
Do Growth Factors Effect the Development of Hair? YES!
While some growth factors are known to inhibit hair growth such as TGF beta, the majority of growth factors like platelet derived growth factor PDGF are essential to epidermis-follicle interaction and the dermal mechenchyme interaction required for hair canal formation and growth...
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Jul
Follicular Biologics: In Surgical Hair Transplantation and Non-Surgical Hair Restoration Therapy
The ability to safely heal damaged tissue and regenerate new tissue with one's own cells is the future of Regenerative Medicine. It is now possible to restore damaged cells in humans and animals by simply taking their own blood, processing it to increase the bodies healing...
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Oct
Permanent Answers For Female Hair Treatments
In a 2011 issue of the Hair Transplant Forum International, Walter Unger, MD Toronto, Ontario, Canada one of the most published and respected Hair Restoration surgeons in our field writes:“Last year, in an issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, one of our esteemed colleagues was...
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