PRP Hair Treatment

Being straight about this matters more than selling it. PRP does not regrow hair on a scalp that is already bald. Where a follicle has gone, nothing injected into the skin brings it back. What PRP can do is work on follicles that are still alive but weakening: slowing shedding, and thickening hair that has gone fine and wispy.

That makes it a treatment for early and moderate thinning, and a poor choice for advanced loss. If you are noticing more hair on the pillow and in the shower, and your hairline is receding rather than gone, you are the person PRP is for. If the crown is bare, it is not — and we will tell you that rather than sell you a course of sessions that cannot work.

A session takes under an hour. Blood is drawn as it would be for any test, spun in a centrifuge, and the plasma injected across the thinning area with a fine needle. It is uncomfortable rather than painful, and you go back to your day afterwards. Most people are advised a short initial course spaced several weeks apart, then occasional maintenance, because the effect fades if nothing follows it.

Results are gradual and easy to miss. Nothing happens in the first weeks; shedding usually settles first, and any thickening shows later. It is worth photographing your scalp at the start under the same light, because month-to-month change is slow enough that memory is a poor judge of it.

PRP is often used alongside other things rather than on its own. After a transplant it supports the area while it settles. Alongside a hair system it looks after the hair that remains. For someone not ready for surgery, it can buy time — which is a legitimate reason to do it, as long as that is what you are expecting.

It does not suit everyone. Certain blood conditions, some medications and an active scalp infection all rule it out or mean it should wait. That is a conversation at the consultation, not something to work out from a website.