Thank you for your question! You’re asking a question without a photo
submitted where you describe having a lot of fine white peach fuzz along your hairline
and you’re asking specifically PRP + Acell will thicken those hairs.
Well I can certainly give you my opinion about this topic. I’m a board certified cosmetic
surgeon and fellowship trained oculofacial plastic. And I’m a founder of Trichostem™
Hair Regeneration centers which are centers we developed based on the use of Acell and
PRP in a method and system that we developed over several years treating hundreds and hundreds
of patients from around the world in our offices in Manhattan and Long Island. And I’ve been
in practice for over 20 years. So I understand this type of question because it really requires
a true understanding of what Acell and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) does for the people that we treat.
So to begin with, the peach fuzz that you described is referred to as vellus hair. Now
understanding that this is not fuzz that’s there after you hair thinned. We have to distinguish
that. Any hair that is in front of thick terminal hairs without hair thinning that you see that
is very fine and describe as peach fuzz tends to be short, that is vellus hair. That hair
diameter is like 0.03 millimeters. That’s compared to terminal hair which the diameter
is 0.06 millimeters or greater. Now the point of that statement is that if the vellus hair
was not a hair that became that way after the hair thinned, then it’s a native vellus
hair that was never destined to be a thicker terminal hair.
In our experience, when we use Acell PRP or what we refer to as Hair Regeneration or Trichostem™
Hair Regeneration, the majority of patients we are treating are men and women with pattern
hair loss also known as androgenetic alopecia. This means that the hair starts thick and
with each subsequent hair cycle, hair growth cycle becomes thinner. With our treatment
of Hair Regeneration, we’re stopping the progression, we’re activating hairs that
are not growing and then we stimulate thinning hairs to become thicker.
So in this scenario, if that called fuzz that is in the frontal hairline is associated with
other hairs that are thinning then the Hair Regeneration treatment could thicken those
hairs. If those hairs are vellus hairs native to the skin and do not or never thick then
Hair Regeneration should not have a difference. If you think about what platelet-rich plasma
(PRP) and Acellular matrix is intended for, you think about wound healing and wound healing
does not mean that you can take any hair or any skin or anything like that and just make
it thicker. You’re actually with pattern hair loss, there is a concept there were maybe
there is a perception of some type of damage or degeneration which is perceived as an injury
and maybe the basis on how part of the reason why hair regeneration works so effectively.
When we treat people with hair loss with Hair Regeneration, we’re essentially correcting
a growth cycle that is going in a downward way where the hair is progressively thinning
but it is still limited by the presence of hair, the degree of hair loss and so which
means we want to be able to treat people as early as possible. The more hair there is,
the better it is. So if you reach a point, for example where your hair is thinned to
a point where you’re practically bald and you just have a little bit of fuzz even though
you might get that hair thicker, it’s not that dramatically improved. However, if you
have decent amount of thin hair, that’s a different story and that can be an improvement.
So just to summarize, if it’s a native normal vellus hair that was never thick, Hair Regeneration,
Acell, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) will not make a difference. If it’s a hair that is
thinning and getting close to disappearing, it can make a difference but it depends on
the individual one on one basis. We do look at the patient as a whole and evaluations
have to be clear. When we finish our evaluation, we have to be clear as to the potential benefit
of a treatment like Hair Regeneration.
So I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for your question!