This category includes various medicinal treatments and external applications that help the patient to grow their own natural hair back. However there are a few limitations. One, it may work only in certain specific conditions like Telogen effluvium and Fungal infections. Secondly, the degree of hair loss will determine how much hair will grow back.

Oral medicines and external applications to grow hair usually consist of Tricho Active Supplements and hair boosting factors. Hair boosting factors can stimulate the roots to produce new hair roots.

Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy for Hair Loss

Platelet Rich Plasma is concentrated blood plasma. It has abundance of hair boosting factors and other bioactive proteins that aid in wound healing and restoration of hair.

Platelets play an important role in healing wounds and repairing damaged tissues. This fact is extrapolated to explain the use of PRP in hair boosting. By increasing the platelet count in the affected area, PRP can help stimulate the damaged hair follicles to produce better hair boosting.

In PRP, blood is drawn out from the patient like it is normally done for a blood test. The blood is then centrifuged at high speed to separate the Platelets from the rest of the blood. The highly concentrated platelet rich plasma is then injected into the scalp. The hair boosting factors in the injected PRP then stimulate hair boosting.



Platelet Rich Plasma being injected in the scalp

While in the early stages of scientific research, PRP is emerging as a promising non-surgical treatment option for patients with hair loss. It offers the opportunity for hair boosting to patients who are not candidates for surgery or those patients wanting a more aggressive nonsurgical approach to treatment.

PRP is contraindicated in patients with chronic liver disease, chronic skin disease, platelet dysfunction diseases and thrombocytopenias, metabolic or systemic disorders. People on blood thinning drugs, or those with a history of heavy smoking and alcohol use should also avoid PRP therapy.

Micro-needle therapy uses a tiny cylindrical drum shaped device called a derma roller. The cylindrical drum comes fitted with stainless-steel micro needles, similar to the non-invasive use of needles in acupuncture.

Derma Roller

The derma roller works by triggering the production of human hair boosting factors. When the needles are rolled along the skin they cause minor surface wounds. This injury activates the healing response of the scalp and stimulates the production of human hair boosting factor and other chemicals to aid the process of repair. These chemicals also then stimulate the damaged hair follicles and stimulate hair boosting of new hair.

Derma Roller treatment in process

Apart from stimulating the follicles, micro needling also facilitates higher absorption of external applications used to treat hair loss and re-grow hair. To understand this better, it is important to know the basic structure of the scalp skin. The scalp skin is made of several layers. The outermost layer is called the stratum corneum which is made up of dead skin cells. This layer acts as a natural barrier and protects the underlying tissues from infection, dehydration and from any chemical or mechanical trauma. When an external application is applied to the scalp the smaller molecules of the active ingredient penetrate easily through the stratum corneum, but the larger molecules often get blocked. This results in only a fraction of the active ingredients reaching the target area. Applying external applications would be useful only if the active ingredients can penetrate through this layer. Using the derma roller opens thousands of channels through the stratum corneum thereby increasing the absorption of the topical scalp medications and its efficacy.

Mesotherapy for Hair Loss

Mesotherapy works on the concept that a disease needs to be treated from as close a point as possible. Thus it employs the use of superficial microinjections into the mesoderm (middle layer of the skin) of the scalp. This brings the active ingredients of the medicines to the exact place where it is needed i.e. around the hair follicles so that it can stimulate hair boosting. When done professionally, it is virtually painless.