By taking a small amount of your blood, then concentrating and separating the blood components, we produce Platelet Rich Plasma, PRP. Four percent of our blood is made of platelets and on the surface of the platelets are as many as 1100 growth factors. PRP...
Harnessing the body’s own regenerative powers is a medical practice with a 30 year track record and also is at the frontier of present day advancements whose properties can seem miraculous to those who benefit from them. The miracle, however, is the result of scientific exploration that has begun to unlock and utilize the body’s extraordinary ability to heal and restore itself.
The May, 2014 issue of Vogue Magazine features an article on female hair loss and the new treatments available for females. In the article, “Hats Off”, Dr. Joe Greco was sited for a new non-surgical biologic treatment to improve thinning hair. Here is a quote form the Vogue article...
“Self Regeneration with your Natural Growth Factors” Reduce the Aging Process, Naturally!“What we have been developing and using since 2007 is now becoming mainstream as you can see the Congress listed below in Geneva, Switzerland”. Discussion In Fig 1, below is one of our first...
In our last Blog post we explained the difference between Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) and Cytokine Rich Plasma (CRP). CRP contains the optimal levels of growth factors without the red blood cells (RBC), white blood cells (WBC), and platelet membranes. It also contains a natural...
Cytokine Rich Plasma Cytokine Rich Plasma is a product developed by OroGen BioSciences where Cytokines or Growth Factors (Protein’s) contained in platelets can be released without the use of thrombin, calcium chloride or collagen and filtered, so that the final product is an analytical grade...
Joseph F. Greco, PhD, PA/C was a keynote speaker at the First International Congress on the State-of-The-Art PRP and Growth Factors in Dermatology meeting in Milan, Italy January 21-22, 2011. Over two hundred Dermatologists, Plastic Surgeons, Oral surgeons from Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
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, surgical hair restoration. There is no other cosmetic...
Research Grant Report This 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 the results were published in...
(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 circulation)...
