Platelets Rich Plasma (PRP) injections are widely popular in aesthetic medicine to rejuvenate and slow down the ageing process. It utilises the person’s unique tissue growth factors and healing properties to revitalise mesenchymal-epithelial tissue by improving blood supply and stimulating collagen and elastin formation. The results of which improves and increases over time.
Platelets Rich Plasma Injections is suitable for use alongside other treatments such as
They are suitable to treat hair loss, deep and fine wrinkles, scar revision, stretch marks. They are also useful for treating lost volume to the face and hands, sunken eyes and many more problems.
A doctor draws a small volume of the client’s blood (ten to twenty millilitres). Further, through a process of centrifugation Platelets, Rich Plasma separates from the blood. Thus, it gets ready for injection with a fine needle into identifying areas.
It may take a few weeks (or months in case of hair re-growth) for the Platelets Rich Plasma therapy results to become visible. But with two to three top-up treatments every four to six months, you can expect the effects of PRP therapy to last for up to one and a half years.
Recovery time is minimal. There is a mild discomfort at the injection site, minimal swelling and rarely bruising reporting and could be alleviating with an ice pack and mild painkillers.
Duration of treatment with Platelets Rich Plasma Injections may be up to sixty minutes.