If you are struggling with hair loss, there are nonsurgical, effective options available for you. In this article, we’ll discuss non-surgical hair restoration treatments and explore their unique benefits to help you choose the most suitable option.
Get in touch with Philadelphia Hair Restoration today to learn how you can achieve hair regrowth without a surgical hair transplant.
What Is Non-Surgical Hair Restoration?
There are many options without surgery to treat your hair loss.
One of the most popular non-surgical hair restoration is PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma), a plasma injection. Another is low-power laser light therapy, which you can use to stimulate your hair follicles.
Medications such as finasteride (oral or topical) and minoxidil are also options. We can also add micropigmentation as another treatment option. However, this is not a permanent solution like hair transplantation.
PRP hair restoration is great for patients who don’t have a good donor area in the back of their scalp; we can always try nonsurgical methods first. You do not necessarily have to undergo surgery to achieve the appearance of a greater amount of hair.
Advanced PRP Therapy for Hair Growth
One of the advanced therapies for hair loss involves PRP or Platelet-Rich Plasma. This method is where we draw the patient’s blood and spin it down to extract the platelet-rich plasma.
This then is injected into the scalp areas and will help generate growth in latent hair follicles that are immature, light, or not robust. What PRP does is enhance the thickness of these hairs to give better volume to the scalp.
It should be noted that this is not doing transplantation, not transplanting hair follicles. This method is often used, for example, when someone doesn’t have a good donor site or hair follicles to transplant. So, we try to stimulate what the patient has left into the fullest hair they can have.
Other Non-Surgical Hair Restoration Methods
So, there are other options, including steroid injections and immunotherapy. We at a Philadelphia Hair Restoration don’t use these methods, primarily because the PRP method is more effective.
Steroids and Immunotherapy for Hair Restoration
Steroids have been studied for a while and can enhance hair growth if there’s an inflammatory condition in the hair. Immunotherapy is fairly aggressive, even though it’s a non-surgical method of stimulating hair growth.
We have to realize that immunotherapy has some downsides. They could suppress the immune system and have medical effects we don’t want to use on our patients. So, we do not use these two therapies, although certain centers might.
Scalp Micropigmentation (SMP)
Micropigmentation is one of the nonsurgical cosmetic options for hair loss, but this is not a permanent solution. Just like other tattoos, the color fades away. So you do have to get a touch-up now and then, maybe once in 6 months.
Which Non-Surgical Hair Restoration Option Is Right For You?
How do we educate our patients and make the decision on what nonsurgical option is good for them?
If the patient is struggling with those two decisions, whether to use a pigmentation method, which is effective and does a nice job, or toupe or a hairpiece, we have to engage the patient in making that decision and decide.
For example, is the hairpiece inconvenient for their lifestyle? The pigmentation, they don’t have to worry about taking care of, but it has limitations in the volume. So we describe those two things to our patients, and they have to come into the decision-making process with us.
Discover Personalized, Non-Surgical Hair Restoration Solutions At Philadelphia Hair Restoration
At Philadelphia Hair Restoration, we provide effective, nonsurgical hair restoration treatments to help our patients feel confident in their appearance. We work closely with patients, determining the best minimally invasive solution to restore the appearance of a fuller head of hair.
Contact us today to speak with a hair restoration specialist about the right non-surgical hair restoration procedure for your needs.
