Your own blood, nothing synthetic
Prepared from a small draw at your visit. No drug, no implant, no daily medication if you would rather not take one.
Hair Restoration
Pain Management & Regenerative Medicine
PRP Hair Restoration
PRP hair treatment injects a concentrate of your own platelets into the scalp to support the follicles you still have. It works best early, it works better alongside treating the cause, and it is not a transplant. Here is an honest account of what it does, what the research shows, and who it suits.
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Pain Management & Regenerative Medicine
What PRP does for thinning hair
In androgenetic hair loss, follicles do not vanish overnight — they miniaturise, producing progressively finer, shorter hairs over years. PRP delivers concentrated growth factors from your own blood into the scalp to support those weakening follicles while they are still viable. That is the essential point about timing: PRP can support a struggling follicle, but it cannot resurrect one that is gone. Treating early, when thinning is visible but the area is not yet bare, is where results are best.
Why patients choose PRP for hair
For men and women
Female pattern hair loss is common, under-treated, and often dismissed. It is treated here with the same seriousness as male pattern loss.
Works alongside other treatments
PRP combines with minoxidil, oral therapies and nutritional correction. It is also used to support hair transplant results rather than competing with them.
We look for the cause, not just the symptom
Thyroid disease, iron deficiency, hormonal shifts and post-partum changes all cause hair loss and all respond to treating the underlying problem. We test rather than assume it is genetic.
Preparation quality matters, and ours is deliberate
Trial evidence shows double-spin preparations outperforming single-spin for hair. That is a technical decision most patients never get told about.
Physician-performed
Your scalp is assessed and injected by a physician, in a medical clinic, not by a technician in a salon setting.
Who it suits
Is PRP right for your hair loss?
PRP is a treatment for early-to-moderate thinning where living follicles remain. If an area is completely bare, the honest answer is that grafting — not PRP — is what will put hair there, and we will tell you so.
- Early androgenetic thinning in men, particularly the crown and mid-scalp
- Female pattern thinning with widening of the part
- Increased shedding after pregnancy, illness, rapid weight loss or significant stress
- Thinning that started alongside a hormonal change, including perimenopause
- Patients who want to support a hair transplant result
- People who would rather not take a daily medication, or cannot tolerate one
The evidence, honestly
What the research actually shows
PRP for hair has a real evidence base, and also real variability between studies. Both things are true and you should know both before you commit to a course.
Does it work?Why results varyHow it is prepared hereTiming and expectationsWhat it will not doFind the cause first
Does it work?
Most randomised trials and the systematic reviews pooling them show PRP increasing hair density and shaft thickness compared with placebo, with statistically significant differences at three and six months. It is one of the better-supported non-pharmaceutical options for androgenetic alopecia.
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What else moves the needle on hair
Hair is one of the first things the body sacrifices when something systemic is off. Treating the scalp while ignoring the rest wastes the treatment.
01Iron and ferritin
Low ferritin is one of the most common reversible causes of shedding, particularly in menstruating women — and it is frequently overlooked because standard iron studies look normal.
02Thyroid function
Both under- and overactive thyroid cause hair loss. We assess thyroid properly rather than with a single TSH.
03Hormonal change
Perimenopause, post-partum shifts and androgen changes all affect the hair cycle. This is a hormone clinic, so that conversation happens here rather than being referred out.
04Protein and rapid weight loss
Aggressive calorie restriction — including on GLP-1 medication — commonly triggers shedding. It is manageable when someone is watching for it.
What happens
A PRP hair session, start to finish
Roughly an hour in our Scarsdale office, with no downtime that stops you going back to work.
01Scalp assessment and bloodwork
We examine the pattern and density of loss and run labs to rule out thyroid, iron and hormonal causes before assuming the loss is genetic.
02Blood draw
A small volume drawn in office, exactly as for any lab test.
03Double-spin preparation
The sample is processed to concentrate the platelet fraction, using the preparation approach the comparative literature supports for hair.
04Scalp injection
A series of small injections across the thinning areas. Topical numbing is used and most patients describe it as very tolerable.
05Series and maintenance
Sessions are spaced over several months, with review to assess density before planning maintenance. You will be told the expected schedule before you start.
Scarsdale, New York
Find out why your hair is thinning, then treat it
Protocol Health is at 700 White Plains Road in Scarsdale, minutes from Bronxville, Eastchester, White Plains, New Rochelle and Tarrytown. Book a consultation for a scalp assessment, the bloodwork to identify a treatable cause, and a straight answer on whether PRP will help your pattern of loss.
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