Losing Your Locks? Regrow Your Hair Using PRP Treatments - Affiliated Dermatology

Video transcript: PRP for Hair Loss

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[00:00:02] losing your locks it is a scary and

[00:00:05] humiliating experience hair loss it can

[00:00:08] impact both men and women but there is a

[00:00:10] treatment helping patients regain their

[00:00:12] confidence back Carmen Reyes she is a

[00:00:14] physician assistant with affiliated

[00:00:16] dermatology she is here along with Paul

[00:00:18] who recently received his hair loss

[00:00:20] treatment you're going to hear his

[00:00:21] journey in just a moment but first

[00:00:23] Carmen what causes hair loss there are

[00:00:25] many reasons for hair loss if it occurs

[00:00:28] suddenly with increased shedding then

[00:00:30] it's most likely due to illness

[00:00:32] medications diet hormonal changes if it

[00:00:35] occurs more gradually where you're

[00:00:37] noticing with each year you're losing

[00:00:39] your hair it's thinning out it's not

[00:00:40] growing back then the most common cause

[00:00:42] is hereditary hair loss it's also known

[00:00:45] as male or female pattern alopecia

[00:00:47] alright so PRP is one of the term that

[00:00:50] we hear a lot of an affiliated

[00:00:51] dermatology you guys do PRP restoration

[00:00:54] for hair loss what is that and how does

[00:00:56] it work

[00:00:56] yep PRP stands for platelet-rich plasma

[00:00:59] and it's a treatment natural

[00:01:03] non-surgical to reduce hair loss and to

[00:01:06] stimulate new hairs to grow it involves

[00:01:09] collecting a patient's blood and

[00:01:10] spinning it in a centrifuge where the

[00:01:14] blood will separate the plasma is

[00:01:17] collected the plasma contains tons of

[00:01:20] platelets these platelets secrete growth

[00:01:22] factors and the growth factors act on

[00:01:25] the hair follicles to keep the hairs

[00:01:27] that are there growing they stimulate

[00:01:29] new hairs to grow and they also thicken

[00:01:31] this the hair follicle the stem cells

[00:01:34] there so when you're growing back

[00:01:35] thicker hair all right so who's a good

[00:01:37] candidate for this because so we're now

[00:01:38] we're watching it go into the syringe

[00:01:40] after it's been out of the centrifuge so

[00:01:42] who's a good candidate yes so if you're

[00:01:45] noticing that your hair is thinning out

[00:01:47] it's not growing back you may see phases

[00:01:51] of baldness you've noticed hair loss

[00:01:53] like this and other family members and

[00:01:55] you don't have a history of scarring

[00:01:57] alopecia you may be a great candidate

[00:01:59] for this procedure alright so this is

[00:02:01] the treatment being done and and before

[00:02:03] I look at this Paul I want you to take a

[00:02:05] look at the screen and there's going to

[00:02:07] be an image that comes up which is you

[00:02:09] yes

[00:02:10] describe who you looked at in the mirror

[00:02:12] you were 35 years old in this photo yes

[00:02:15] so I I looked in the mirror I did not

[00:02:18] like what I was looking at I I was

[00:02:21] losing my hair I could notice it was

[00:02:24] thinning out and through family history

[00:02:27] I knew if I didn't do something about it

[00:02:29] I'd be alright you just talked about

[00:02:31] that Carmen hereditary link and so your

[00:02:33] father you said was balding and you

[00:02:35] wanted to do something about it describe

[00:02:37] the treatment the treatment was very

[00:02:40] simple they numb my head with some spray

[00:02:43] and I feel a little pressure and before

[00:02:46] you know what the procedure is done yeah

[00:02:48] so that was the video that we were just

[00:02:49] looking at of you getting the treatment

[00:02:51] done and that was a couple of years ago

[00:02:53] no you haven't we're gonna look at a

[00:02:55] before-and-after who are you today Paul

[00:02:57] how you feeling feeling great a lot of

[00:03:00] confidence and have my full full head so

[00:03:05] two years Carmen yes four before Paul

[00:03:07] saw this significant difference this is

[00:03:09] his natural hair absolutely all of his

[00:03:11] hair and once you start noticing results

[00:03:15] within three to four months because your

[00:03:17] hair grows in cycles we want to maintain

[00:03:19] your treatments by getting a treatment

[00:03:21] every three months so Paul's been

[00:03:23] getting these treatments for the past

[00:03:24] couple years he's had several and it's

[00:03:27] just wonderful it feels good so you swim

[00:03:29] you said you shampoo regularly or your

[00:03:31] stylist noticed it there my stylist

[00:03:33] noticed I probably have more products in

[00:03:36] my wife right now I love it and you're

[00:03:39] feeling good about yourself and you're

[00:03:41] stopping that hereditary link I'm so it

[00:03:43] the maintenance you said is fairly

[00:03:45] simple and you guys offer vitamins as

[00:03:47] well right exactly

[00:03:48] we recommend these vitamins from neutral

[00:03:50] it's a plant-based formula they're very

[00:03:53] high quality to kit they come in a male

[00:03:54] and female formulation because we know

[00:03:56] that men and women lose hair in

[00:03:57] different ways

[00:03:58] all right well Paul you look good I know

[00:04:00] your wife is very happy with the with

[00:04:02] all of this incredible hair that you

[00:04:04] have on your head if you are one of

[00:04:05] these folks you're losing your hair

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