Life itself seeks by all means, to develop mechanisms that guarantee its survival.
Living organisms have developed multiple processes to counteract, minimize and even repair the effects caused by internal and external aggressors. The human being is no exception.
The Italian neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini with the American biochemist Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of growth factors in human cells. Within these cells it is important to highlight platelets. Platelets are known to be the smallest cells in our blood. Platelets contain alpha granules that store a large number of these factors that, when released, stimulate cell regeneration and multiplication in addition to generating new networks of blood vessels.
Platelets are responsible for stimulating the initial repair of tissues when these are damaged by injuries such as wounds, burns and others. By breaking down platelets and releasing growth factors, many cells migrate to the affected area, regenerating destroyed tissues, preventing infection, and producing new blood vessels to nourish newly repaired tissues.
Taking these factors into account, for several decades, various branches of medicine have applied biostimulation with platelet growth factors as a means to accelerate recovery in different types of injuries.
Platelets have also been very useful for treating baldness. (See cases)
Hair is a cyclical organ that presents phases of growth, rest and fall. The capillary biostimulation with platelet growth factors, manages to shorten the hair loss phase, stimulating the hair follicles to enter and stay in the growth phase.
This promotes the development of thicker and better quality hair. It also slows down the active fall, reducing it by 50% after two weeks and close to 100% one month after being applied.
The procedure takes approximately 40 minutes. This is done by taking a sample of the patient’s own blood, which is processed in minutes in order to to obtain a concentrate with platelets that is then injected into the patient’s scalp.
A great advantage of this procedure is that as it is a product from the same patient, it does not present rejections or adverse reactions, it is performed by a trichologist dermatologist, it is an outpatient procedure and does not generate disability.
Biostimulation with platelet growth factors is an excellent alternative for the treatment of female alopecia, to complement the treatment of patients who have a contraindication to taking finasteride or applying minoxidil or simply as a complement to hair restoration treatments.
