
When injected into thinning and balding head regions, the growth factors in PRP can encourage thicker, fuller, and healthier hair growth. PRP may increase the proliferation of dermal papilla (hair-generating) cells, the survival, differentiation, and proliferation of follicle cells, and lengthen the hair’s anagen phase.1 PRP has also been shown to increase hair density in patients with androgenic alopecia (baldness).2
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Bilsev Ince, et. al., “Comparison of the Efficacy of Homologous and Autologous Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) for Treating Androgenic Alopecia,” Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 42, no. 1 (2018): 297-303, accessed December 9, 2019, doi: 10.1007/s00266-017-1004-y.