For years if you were balding and wanted to restore your hair, you would either get hair plugs inserted surgically or you would use a topical treatment to hopefully stimulate hair growth. Both of these options marginally worked but not always as well as patients hoped. Lately, there is a new treatment patients are increasingly turning to for hair restoration. Known as PRP therapy, or platelet-rich plasma therapy, it has a lot of advantages over the old options. Here are some reasons why it has become so popular so quickly.

PRP therapy does not involve foreign chemicals or medications.

So many hair loss treatments involve rubbing some medication on your scalp. Others involve injecting some medication or substance into your scalp. There is always a chance of a negative reaction to these substances, which could not only make them ineffective but also lead to itching, patchy skin, and swelling. PRP therapy uses your body's own fluids. Your doctor removes your own blood plasma and spins it down to concentrate the platelets before injecting it into your own scalp. Your body tends to react better to its own fluids than to a foreign substance, which makes PRP quite safe.

PRP therapy makes hair thicker and more abundant.

Some hair replacement treatments focus on making hair thicker. Others give you more hair, but that hair may be thin and wispy. PRP gives you more hair and thicker hair. This is because the plasma increases blood supply to the area where it is injected. This increased blood supply helps the hair shaft grow thicker, and it also encourages more hairs to grow on your head. The results look better and yet still natural.

PRP therapy is minimally invasive.

Having hair plugs transplanted from your arm to your head or from one area on your head to another is a surgical procedure. It's a minor one, but there is still a risk of infection, and it still hurts as it heals. RPR is so much less invasive. It's really just some injections. Yes, you will need to be careful around your scalp for a few days after the procedure, but you won't have scabs, and the risk of infection is really low.

Talk to a doctor to learn more about PRP hair restoration therapy. It's becoming really popular because it makes hair thicker and more plentiful and because it is minimally invasive and body-friendly.