Learn About Our Natural, Regenerative Solution for Hair Loss

Maybe that part in your hair is starting to widen, or your hairline is receding. However, the hair loss is affecting your once-healthy head of hair, and you’re none too pleased with the results.

The reality is that half of men and women in the United States experience hair loss, so you’re certainly not alone in this.

The good news is that there’s new hope in the battle to regrow hair, and board-certified dermatologist Dr. Samantha Robare and our team of aesthetic specialists are thrilled to offer it here at Magnolia Dermatology. Called platelet-rich fibrin (PRF), this innovative and regenerative approach to thinning hair and hair loss is helping many of our patients to ditch the hats and love their hair again.

Behind the hair loss

It’s always good to step back and understand what we’re up against, especially when it comes to something as common as hair loss.

We mentioned that half of men and women experience hair loss, and most of this is due to androgenetic alopecia, also known as male- or female-patterned hair loss. This condition is an excessive response to androgen hormones, which causes the hair-growing phase to be shortened.

In men, this often results in a receding hairline, while women tend to hold onto their hairlines, but their parts can become wider, and they experience overall thinning around the crown.

Fighting back against hair loss with the power of platelets

Until recently, the go-to treatment for hair loss has been minoxidil, but this is a messy and labor-intensive solution — you have to apply a mousse to your scalp twice daily.

Thanks to an increasing focus on regenerative medicine — ways in which we can repair, regrow, and replace damaged cells — we’re discovering an entirely new approach to issues like hair loss.

More specifically, we turn to the platelets in your blood, which are flat cells that are well known for clotting your blood. What many people don’t know is that the work of platelets extends well beyond stopping bleeding. 

These cells play an integral role in the healing cascade, which includes the repair of damaged tissues. More specifically, platelets release growth factors and cytokines that rebuild damaged cells, including those in your scalp and hair follicles.

The PRF difference for hair loss

Not only have we found great success in using platelet-rich plasma (PRP), but we’ve followed the science and taken the treatment to the next level with PRF. 

Researchers have found that one drawback of PRP is that its effects are fleeting because the regenerative resources are depleted quickly. With PRF, we prepare the platelets in a way that introduces a fibrin clot that creates a type of scaffolding that keeps the platelets and stem cells at the scene and doing their work in regrowing your hair.

To achieve this, we use advanced PRF kits from the leading supplier, Selphyl®, which release growth factors for up to seven days after treatment, as opposed to only hours with PRP.

What this means for you is that the regeneration period is stronger and longer, which translates to more hair regrowth.

Getting your PRF hair loss treatments is easy — we typically recommend a series of treatments that we space apart by about a month. After this initial series, you can return every 6-12 months for maintenance PRF treatments that will keep your hair growing strong and healthy.

To schedule your PRF hair loss treatments, we invite you to contact us at Magnolia Dermatology in Cypress, Texas, to schedule an appointment.