PRP hair rejuvenation treatments are designed to improve and enhance your natural hair growth. As maintenance therapy for beautiful hair or for those noticing thinning, PRP treatment is the perfect natural way of rejuvenating your scalp.
The skin over your scalp containing hair follicles ages just as the skin does over your face, except it is not as visible until it’s already advanced. Scalp therapy should occur at a much younger age to prevent thinning skin as well as loss of hair.
How does PRP rejuvenate the scalp?
Amourage Skin Clinic uses the most advanced centrifuge systems to produce the highest yield and concentration of functional PRP, containing the essential growth factors responsible for the regenerative capacity of PRP treatments. The growth factors rejuvenate the scalp and stimulate the hair follicles by increasing the blood flow, resulting in new and enhanced hair growth.
What makes PRP hair treatment unique at Amourage?
Amourage Skin Clinic PRP Hair rejuvenation is provided by Dr. Lahey to ensure specialist care and comfort. A local anaesthetic is used to block the sensory nerves supplying the treatment area of the scalp allowing for a far more comfortable procedure. Multiple techniques are used to deliver PRP to various layers of the skin over the scalp, ensuring the best possible outcomes. Dermalux LED therapy is incorporated in the treatment session for essential skin and hair follicle stimulation.
Treatments take 90 min and cost 5,000 rand each.
What results can patients expect?
Patients notice improved hair growth after just one session of PRP Hair treatment. As it is a regenerative process, it can take 1-2 months for the hair follicles to rejuvenate, providing thicker healthier hair. This is as a result of new vessel formation increasing blood flow which takes time. The architectural proteins of the skin such as collagen also increase providing thicker healthier and more resilient skin.
How many treatments should I have?
For patients wishing to prevent scalp ageing, 6 monthly to yearly treatments are recommended, adjusted according to patients scalp and hair health. Benefiting from thicker and stronger luxurious hair.
For patients requiring active treatment (hair thinning already present) to rejuvenate the scalp and restore their scalp health, approximately 3-4 treatments may be required at monthly intervals to initiate and fast tract the rejuvenation process. Treatments are adjusted according to responses. Duration between treatments can be lengthened with improved results and continue on preventative therapy at 6monthly to yearly intervals.
Patients with loss of hair as a consequence of medical conditions require their condition to be treated by a specialist as little improvement with PRP will occur if the underlying medical condition continues untreated. Dr. Lahey will refer you to a hormone specialist regarded for her exceptional and thorough care.
PRP injections will not replace the need for hair transplant surgery, if this is your requirement, Dr. Lahey will refer you to the leading hair loss specialist unit in Cape Town.
What about bald men? How can they benefit from PRP Treatments?
The skin of the scalp becomes exceptionally sensitive and thin in balding men as there is no barrier to the sun. UV light damages collagen in the skin, leading to the breakdown of collagen already present in your skin and inhibiting its production. This leads to premature ageing of the skin and thinning. Blotchy pigment as well as fine wrinkles become apparent. Complaints of a sensitive, painful, tight scalp is common amongst bald men.
Thinner skin can be more prone to skin cancer as it offers less protection against harmful UV radiation, making it easier for damaging rays to penetrate and affect deeper skin layers. This is compounded as the body’s ability to repair DNA damage caused by the sun decreases.
Bald men can benefit from PRP scalp treatments to rejuvenate their skin, increasing their collagen levels, providing for thicker healthier skin.