First of all, what's PRP?
It stands for Platelet-Rich Plasma and it's in our blood! In short, this treatment uses growth factor from our own blood and inject it back to ourselves to jump start the healing process. As we are unlikely to be allergic to our own blood, it's considered an extremely safe treatment option.
The whole treatment took around 1 hour and this is what I went through.
1. Signed consent form from clinic.
2. Blood was drawn from arm while anesthetic cream was applied to the whole scalp.
3. The blood was placed in a centrifuge machine to separate platelet from the rest of the blood components. Platelet-rich plasma was then extracted into few injection syringes. This process alone took around 30 mins.
4. Second layer of anesthetic cream was applied. 15 mins later, hair was washed.
5. Platelet-rich plasma was injected into hair loss area including implanted area.
Though anesthetic cream was applied twice, the injection still hurts especially at the back of scalp.
Luckily the whole injection process took less than 5 minutes. If you can't take any pain, I would suggest to go with anesthetic injection instead of cream. I was advised not to wash hair and apply minoxidil hair gel for the next 24 hours.
This is after anesthetic cream was applied twice.
Injection syringes filled with platelet-rich plasma.
I will go for 3 more PRP treatments in the following months.
Stay tuned as I will update you on the result. Thanks for checking in. Cheers~
It stands for Platelet-Rich Plasma and it's in our blood! In short, this treatment uses growth factor from our own blood and inject it back to ourselves to jump start the healing process. As we are unlikely to be allergic to our own blood, it's considered an extremely safe treatment option.
The whole treatment took around 1 hour and this is what I went through.
1. Signed consent form from clinic.
2. Blood was drawn from arm while anesthetic cream was applied to the whole scalp.
3. The blood was placed in a centrifuge machine to separate platelet from the rest of the blood components. Platelet-rich plasma was then extracted into few injection syringes. This process alone took around 30 mins.
4. Second layer of anesthetic cream was applied. 15 mins later, hair was washed.
5. Platelet-rich plasma was injected into hair loss area including implanted area.
Though anesthetic cream was applied twice, the injection still hurts especially at the back of scalp.
Luckily the whole injection process took less than 5 minutes. If you can't take any pain, I would suggest to go with anesthetic injection instead of cream. I was advised not to wash hair and apply minoxidil hair gel for the next 24 hours.
I will go for 3 more PRP treatments in the following months.
Stay tuned as I will update you on the result. Thanks for checking in. Cheers~
How much the cost for PRP treatment per session?
ReplyDeleteHi, the clinic that I went charge RM1,000 per session for existing customer.
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