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Which Hair Restoration Doctors are Providing Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) Treatments?- Thursday, January 28, 2010

Question:

Can you please tell me which doctors are providing PRP procedures? Perhaps you can list them on your hair loss forum and update it periodically?

Answer:

While we're interested in viewing clinical studies and reading about people's experiences with Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) in treating hair loss, it's still not considered proven. Thus, creating a list of doctors who provide PRP would be like putting a list of physicians together that offer saw palmetto tablets. Saw palmetto too may have some scientific backing in treating baldness, but it's clinically unproven. The same goes for PRP.

I must admit that I've been concerned that more and more physicians are now offering PRP strictly to make money due to its increasing popularity in the hair loss communities rather than to collect the necessary clinical data required to obtain proof as to whether or not PRP is a useful treatment for hair loss. Frankly, I think balding men and women are putting far too much emphasis on such an experimental procedure.

In my opinion, before standing in line for the Platelet Rich Plasma procedure, wait to see if any real evidence surfaces to prove its effectiveness in treating hair loss.

Bill Seemiller (Falceros) - Managing Publisher of the Hair Transplant Network, the Coalition Hair Loss Learning Center, and the Hair Loss Q & A Blog.
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