SOMA BLOOD | Restoration of the Skin and Hair Using Growth Factors.
In recent years, Hair restoration using growth factors found in our blood, has become a “trending therapy” in aesthetic medicine. Physicians are using the natural healing properties of platelets to improve the appearance and overall health of the skin.”
Plasma rich in platelets is derived from the patient’s own blood and may contain growth factors that increase collagen production.
This can be combined with collagen induction therapy (microneedling) treatment in the form of dermatologic autologous blood therapy. It can be applied topically to the entire treatment area during and after collagen induction therapy treatments (Vampire Facial) or injected intradermally to scars.
Vampire Facial
Plasma containing growth factors can be combined with collagen induction therapy (microneedling) treatment in the form of dermatologic autologous blood therapy. It can be applied topically to the entire treatment area during and microneedling treatments.
Hair Restoration
Plasma containing growth factors therapy for hair loss is a three-step medical treatment in which a person’s blood is drawn, processed, and then injected into the scalp.
Some in the medical community think that these injections trigger natural hair growth and maintain it by increasing blood supply to the hair follicle and increasing the thickness of the hair shaft.
Therapy Process
This treatment is a three-step process. Most patients require a series of three treatments 4–6 weeks apart.
Maintenance treatments are required every 4–6 months.
Step 1
Your blood is drawn — typically from your arm — and put into a centrifuge (a machine that spins rapidly to separate fluids of different densities).
Step 2
After about 10 minutes in the centrifuge, your blood will have separated into three layers:
- plasma poor in platelets
- plasma rich in platelets
- red blood cells
Step 3
The platelet-rich plasma is drawn up into a syringe and then injected into areas of the scalp that need increased hair growth.