Thicker-looking hair, from your own blood

PRP hair restoration is an injection of your own platelet-rich plasma into thinning areas of the scalp. Blood is drawn, spun in a centrifuge to concentrate the platelets, and injected where hair is thinning. The platelets release growth factors that act on follicle stem cells and lengthen the growth phase.

It’s used for pattern hair loss where follicles are smaller but still present. It’s not FDA-approved for hair loss, and the evidence is rated low quality with a modest average density gain.

Not permanently, no. PRP doesn’t block the hormonal process behind pattern loss, so density drifts back without maintenance. In one series, density fell at 6 and 12 months but stayed above the starting point.

Our usual plan is three monthly sessions, then boosters every three to six months, alongside minoxidil or finasteride if you take them. If you stop everything, the loss resumes.

It can, if the temples still have fine hair in them. PRP acts on follicles that have shrunk, not on skin where the follicles are gone. If your temples have been smooth for years, a hair transplant is the better option.

At your consult, your provider will look for fine hair in the area. If it’s there, we’ll include the temples in your treatment plan.

Shedding is usually the first change, and most people notice it around month two to three, after the second or third session. Density changes were most commonly reported after the third month in the reviewed trials.

Allow four months before judging results. We’ll compare photos at six months.

Yes, and we encourage it. A 2024 meta-analysis of six studies found PRP plus minoxidil beat either alone, and a 2018 review describes PRP as a co-adjuvant to medication rather than a replacement.

Keep taking your prescribed medication through the series.

Yes. Female pattern loss usually shows as a widening part with the hairline intact, and that’s a common reason women book this. A 2022 network meta-analysis found PRP worked better in younger and female patients.

Postpartum shedding is different and often recovers on its own. Your provider will determine which one you have at your consult.

To anyone else, it looks normal. Your scalp feels tender and tight, there may be a small bruise or two, and some people have a mild headache the first evening. There’s no dressing and no visible mark through the hair.

It’s best to skip washing the first night and heavy sweating for 24 to 48 hours. You can return to work the next morning.

We recommend waiting 24 to 48 hours before anything that makes you sweat hard, including a run, a boxing class, or hot yoga. Sweat on a freshly injected scalp raises irritation and infection risk.

If you’re training for a race, book the session after your long run rather than the day before it.

PRF is offered as an add-on for clients who want a slower-release version. It’s spun slower with no anticoagulant, so it sets into a fibrin gel that releases growth factors over days. The head-to-head evidence against PRP is early, with a 2024 review finding five small studies and no standard preparation.

It isn’t part of the standard plan, so we’ll discuss whether it suits you at your consult.

No. A smooth, shiny area has no follicles left to stimulate, and injecting platelets into it won’t grow hair. PRP helps hair that’s thinning, not hair that’s gone.

If the area has been bald for years, we can refer you to a transplant surgeon.

There’s nothing to undo. If you aren’t responding after a full course, you can stop, and we’ll let you know if we think more sessions are unlikely to help.