AutoloGel PRP enhances healing after hair transplantation
November 13, 2012
AutoloGel™ PRP Enhances Healing After Hair Transplantation
Today, more and more doctors performing hair transplantation are using AutoloGel PRP to help wounds heal faster and reduce the cosmetic downtime from a hair transplant procedure. AutoloGel is used to accelerate the body’s recovery mechanisms and create an optimal environment for wound healing to occur comfortably and quickly.
Studies show that a wound needs three elements to heal naturally and quickly:
- Moisture
- Nutrients
- Cellular growth factors and proteins
Once you hair transplant procedure has been completed, Dr. Alan Bauman and his surgical team will apply AutoloGel PRP immediately after transplantation to stimulate the natural healing process. AutoloGel PRP contains an ingredient obtained directly from your blood, called “platelets.”
PRP – platelet rich plasma – helps keep the wound moist like a biologic bandage and delivers the body’s own growth factors and nutrients. AutoloGel PRP contains activated platelets and promotes natural healing without side effects or risks.
Platelets are crucial to the healing of wounds. In order for a wound to heal naturally, it must have the growth factors provided by platelets. PRP harnesses each person’s own natural healing processes, delivering the growth factors and nutrients that help cells grow and new tissue to form. PRP can restore the balance in the wound environment to help hair transplants heal naturally with less redness, less crusting and less swelling.
Dr. Alan J. Bauman and every member of his hair transplant team have successfully completed the Cytomedix™ AutoloGel System Certification Training on the AutoloGel System for Surgical Hair Restoration as of August 24, 2011. Dr. Bauman was one of the first hair transplant surgeons in the world to have his entire surgical team certified to offer AutoloGel PRP wound healing.
AutoloGel PRP reduces scalp scabbing, swelling and redness
A study by RJ Reese, shows that patients receiving AutoloGel PRP after hair transplant had improved healing compared to those who did not receive AutoloGel.
All PRP’s are not alike. Only one is FDA-cleared for wound care: AutoloGel PRP. Because the term PRP can be applied to any platelet rich plasma product, it may be misleading. PRP products can vary according to their production process and the end results can be vastly different. There is only one PRP available that is cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for wound care: AutoloGel PRP. Dr. Alan J. Bauman and the surgical team at Bauman Medical Group is proud to offer the only FDA-approved PRP regimen with every single hair transplant procedure performed.References
Reese RJ, A single-blinded, randomized controlled study of the use of autologous platelet rich plasma (PRP) as a medium to reduce scalp hair transplant adverse events. Hair Transplant Forum Int’l, March/April 2008:pp 51-52.