PRP Hair Treatment in Rawalpindi

PRP has a clear window of usefulness. Outside it, the money is better spent elsewhere, and we would rather say so than take a booking.

We think patients are entitled to a straight answer rather than a brochure. The published studies on PRP for androgenetic alopecia consistently show improvement in hair density and thickness compared with placebo, and most are small, use varying preparation protocols, and follow patients for a limited period.

The fair summary is this: PRP reliably produces a modest improvement in hair calibre and density in suitable candidates, reduces shedding in most, and is not a replacement for medical therapy in progressive pattern loss. It is a good adjunct and a poor monotherapy. Anyone telling you it regrows a bald crown is going beyond what the evidence supports.

PRP is not a standardised product. The concentration of platelets achieved depends on the centrifuge, the spin protocol, the tube system and the technique, and the difference between a well-prepared sample and a poorly prepared one is the difference between a treatment and a placebo.

This is why PRP prices vary so widely and why the cheap version is often genuinely worthless rather than merely less good. Ask any clinic what system they use and how the plasma is separated. A vague answer means the answer is not good.

Blood is drawn from your arm as for any blood test, then spun for several minutes. The scalp is cleaned and the plasma is injected across the thinning areas with a fine needle in a grid pattern. The injections sting — the scalp is sensitive — and numbing cream or cooling can be used.

The whole thing takes about an hour. Your scalp will be tender for a day and you may have small pinpoint marks. Wash your hair normally after about twenty-four hours, avoid the gym and sauna the same day, and that is the entirety of the aftercare.

The first change most patients notice is not growth, it is a reduction in shedding — fewer hairs in the shower drain and on the pillow — usually around four to eight weeks. Visible thickening follows at three to six months, and is more often described by patients as hair that feels denser than hair that looks dramatically different.

An initial course is typically three to four sessions spaced four to six weeks apart, then maintenance every four to six months. It is a maintenance treatment, not a course you complete. If you stop, the benefit gradually fades over the following year.

These three are often confused and sometimes deliberately blurred. PRP uses growth factors concentrated from your own blood. Exosome therapy uses laboratory-produced signalling vesicles from an external source, and is newer, more expensive, and supported by less long-term data. Mesotherapy injects a cocktail of vitamins, minerals and other agents, and is supported by the weakest evidence of the three.

They are frequently combined, and there is a reasonable argument for doing so. What is not reasonable is presenting whichever is most expensive as definitively superior, because the head-to-head data to support that claim does not yet exist.