What is PRP? It is platelet-rich plasma. I'm going to explain it the way I explain it to every single
patient. Platelet-rich plasma is kind of like your own body's form of regenerative medicine.
And so, imagine when you're little, if you've seen our other youtube videos this is always the
metaphor I use because it works for me, but when you skin your knee the clear stuff that comes to
the surface of that wound, that's your plasma. It has all of your growth factors in it - your healing
mechanisms - and so in dermatology we can use that to help your hair grow thicker when we inject it
into the scalp. We microneedle it into your skin to help you stimulate lots of collagen production.
We even inject it in your tear troughs to brighten up underneath there, to thicken that skin. PRP is
my answer to everything. I love PRP! We do love PRP and we use a lot of PRP and very specific PRP for
cosmetic and skin rejuvenation. We use a certain type of separator tube that's going to remove all
the pro-inflammatory cells. So you hear PRP being used all over the place. It's used in orthopedics
to kind of heal joint injuries or to delay getting maybe a knee replacement or a hip replacement.
Those kinds of things, but different. They may want some inflammation through there. What we're using
is PRP that's just specific for cosmetics and skin which is a really important differentiator to know.
Not all PRP is made the same. And so, we're getting all that platelet-rich plasma in there that's got
those growth factors. Those growth factors are going to stimulate new blood vessel formation,
new collagen formation obviously, stimulate hair growth as well. You're healing yourself
in the areas that you're aging essentially and because it's your plasma, it's your growth factors.
It's what's best for you and you can't react to it because it was yours to begin with. And so,
that's one of the nice things about Platelet-Rich Plasma is that I have a lot of folks who say they
only want to do something that's very natural and there's nothing more natural than the
stuff that's already circulating through your body, already there to heal itself, What we're
just doing is we're utilizing it, concentrating it down, and putting it in the areas that you need it
the most. When you think about PRP especially for like hair growth,
it's not a one-time treatment. To get to see this , and I see benefits you know for androgenic alopecia,
we see male pattern baldness, female pattern baldness, that's got the most literature behind it.
But i actually use it in a lot of other alopecias as well, and so coming to see the dermatologist to
evaluate your hair loss is an important thing because absolutely not all hair loss is the
same. Some things need medical interventions, different types of prescription medications, but
a lot of times PRP is still part of that plan that we do for folks. But it's a series you're going to
come in every month for three then at three months typically, and then most folks are going to do
their maintenance at two or three times a year. But looking forward ahead if you say I want to
start that maintenance. i personally do PRP because i can look kind of genetically at the women in
my family and know where my hair is headed. And I do it once a quarter that's kind of my maintenance
for PRP in my scalp. The other place that you're going to see PRP, if you watch some of our
other videos, I automatically package PRP with our more aggressive laser treatments as well because
it takes that healing time - and you see it used a really a great deal in wound care and
in regenerative medicine for people who have non-healing ulcers. Those kind of things too.
Clearly, we're not creating non-healing ulcers when we do these more aggressive lasers, but by using
platelet-rich plasma i am decreasing that healing time by about 50 percent. It's great because it
gets you back to your life a lot more quickly and it just adds to the results that you're getting.
So, at the end of any of our more aggressive laser treatments, which you'll see Tori gets to do on me
today, we're going to microneedle in that platelet-rich plasma to get those healing benefits.
And so Tori can talk about what you're seeing on this video today. So what you're going to see today
is what we call platinum PRP. It's one of our most popular treatments because you get to
try everything that we do PRP for. So you get a scalp treatment. You get your under eyes treated
and you also get microneedling with the skinpen with PRP so you heal much faster. So that
is kind of our, I mean I think it's a red carpet treatment because you get all three areas treated.
And that is something that both Dr. Holman and I do very regularly, at least once a quarter. Like
we said, so maybe you just want your hair treated. And that's fine, but if you're somebody that wants
everything treated platinum PRP is definitely for you and what you should bank your bucks for today.
Right, so the dark circles under your eye, you know she talked about that tightening and brightening.
But even folks that have genetically induced dark circles - I see that a lot in different ethnic skin
types as well - this PRP under the eyes really helps in that area also. And she mentioned you're seeing
this skinpen microneedling, which Tori and I love skinpen microneedling because it's collagen
induction therapy, so essentially by creating these thousands of microchannels in the skin here, we're
stimulating your own body's healing response for collagen and elastin production. There's really
great scientific data. You can see the before and afters when you look at histology slides.
The actual production of that collagen elastin and the tightening that you see in your skin.
And again, it's your own body's healing mechanism. So, by adding the PRP to this microneedling, we're
only upping the game. We're aerating the lawn with the skinpen, but the fertilizer that we're
putting in there are her own growth factors, so that the response is going to be just even more
dramatic. And especially in post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation that folks have from acne
acne scarring, that's where we see some very, very dramatic results with skin pen and PRP as well.