PRP FOR WOMEN
Angela Heitman, our director of regenerative services, has over twenty-four years experience with hair transplants and hair-loss prevention. She actively pursues further educating herself and has achieved certificates in stem cell preparation and laser therapy.
RESTORING HAIR THE NATURAL WAY
PRP FOR WOMEN
MEN’ S STRUGGLES with hair loss have been in the public eye for decades. We’ ve all seen the ads featuring balding men in search of hair-loss treatments. But women also suffer from hair loss, something that Angela Heitman of Allure Medical Spa knows all too well. She’ s been working in the hair restoration field for twenty-four years, and during that time, she’ s seen a lot of changes in both her patients and their treatment options.“ I’ ve been seeing a huge surge of women come in lately because they’ re doing their research and looking for answers,” she says.“ In the past, the only treatments offered to women suffering from hair loss were Rogaine and lasers, neither of which were overly effective.”
Fortunately, women now have access to a new option: Platelet-Rich Plasma( PRP). It’ s a simple procedure that involves using the patient’ s own growth platelets to stimulate new hair growth. PRP has been used in wound care and orthopedics for decades because of its ability to encourage healing. PRP is obtained from the body by drawing a vial of blood and separating out the platelets with a centrifuge machine. About ten years ago, PRP was found to be useful for treating hair loss too. Angela has been thrilled to see how effective PRP is for her patients:“ In my twenty-plus years of working in the hairloss treatment field, I’ ve seen that PRP is by far the most innovative and most powerful solution for treating women with hair loss.”
Lorraine, one of Angela’ s patients who chose to pursue PRP, agrees:“ I made the decision to seek treatment for my thinning hair. The thought of having to be injected in those thinning areas was devastating, but every time I passed the mirror I knew— regardless of the anticipated pain— I had to do the treatment. Much to my surprise, the procedure for my hair was fast with very little discomfort. Best of all, IT WORKS! I no longer see my scalp when combing my hair.”
Although hair loss is commonly associated with aging, Angela says that PRP is effective no matter how old you are. She has patients in their eighties whom she includes in her success stories. Whether her patients come to see her because of genetic baldness, traction alopecia, or hair loss caused by breast cancer treatments, Angela has seen a 90 percent success rate with PRP. She has performed over 1,100 procedures and is excited to continue helping her patients.“ Women have so much emotion associated with hair loss,” she says.“ It’ s expected that men will go bald— they can shave their heads and give up on having hair if they want to— but for women, hair loss is not [ socially ] acceptable. It’ s very traumatic for women.” She wishes more women knew about PRP, especially breast cancer survivors who may already be dealing with mastectomies along with the loss of their hair. PRP can help them, also.
Another reason why PRP treatments are so successful is that patients are evaluated to find out if there are any specific problems that may be causing their hair loss, like a hormonal imbalance or a skin issue. If there is, the staff at Allure can address that as well.“ We treat hair loss with an entire-person approach,” Angela explains.“ We have the facilities and the collective knowledge of all of these specialty physicians under one roof, so we can pull other doctors in if there’ s more going on than just hair loss. At Allure, we don’ t give up.”
Angela thinks that Allure’ s commitment of constantly evolving, innovating, and evaluating Allure’ s services is why her patients are so pleased with PRP.“ We don’ t just send patients out the door without answers,” Angela notes.“ We sit down with them and get to the bottom of whatever is going on.” A series of five PRP treatments for men or women is $ 3,000. Please call 800-610-7386 to schedule an appointment with Angela and her team.
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