Today, plastic surgery and aesthetic applications have the infrastructure to intervene and improve all kinds of physical defects, from the body's bone structure to skin structure and weight status. Especially skin rejuvenation applications and techniques that help eliminate signs of aging are among the favorite aesthetic applications of recent times.
What is the Difference of PRP Technique from Botox and Facial Filler?
Botox and facial fillers are among the applications that temporarily rejuvenate the skin. Essentially, these applications do not treat wrinkles, they only hide them for a while.
However, it is possible to say that Botox application delays aging for a few months because it temporarily paralyzes the muscles. PRP technique, which is one of the aesthetic applications applied to the skin, has both therapeutic, preventing and eliminating skin defects features.
PRP application is the concentration of the healing factors found in the person's own blood through some laboratory applications and applied to the skin in sessions within certain procedures.
How to Obtain PRP Liquid?
To obtain PRP liquid, the blood taken from the person is centrifuged and rotated at thousands of revolutions per minute. Thus, many cells in the blood fluid separate according to their molecular weight and sink to the bottom. The platelets to be used in the PRP method are the part that can be easily obtained by centrifugation.
How Does PRP Liquid Work?
Platelets are also known as healing factors. Rapid repair of cuts on the skin and stopping the blood is possible by repairing the vascular wall by platelets. Although platelets have a healing effect on all tissues, the first use of these cells in extracorporeal applications was on the gum tissue, which loosens over time and causes the dental implant to fall out. After this stage, the use of PRP liquid has become widespread in many areas, especially in the treatment of internal organs.
Why Should PRP Application Be Done by an Expert?
The healing factor concentration in the PRP liquid must be at a certain density. Less PRP is obtained from blood that is not centrifuged well. This may prolong the treatment period and may also cause the desired result not to be achieved.
However, contrary to popular belief, PRP liquid, which has plenty of healing factors, will bring harm rather than benefit. Therefore, aesthetic PRP application must be performed by a specialist physician.
Which skin defects can PRP eliminate?
The benefits of PRP aesthetics are generally on skin aging and skin blemishes. Acne spots left over from youth, repair of skin pits caused by acne, sun spots on the skin, under-eye bags and under-eye bruises, forehead, crow's feet and lip lines, lines from the nose. All conditions that cause an aged appearance on the face, such as lines, can be eliminated with sessions.
PRP technique, which can also be applied to the neck and décolleté area, can also be preferred for the treatment of wrinkles and freckles in this area. The advantages of PRP on the skin include moisturizing the skin, tightening the skin, and making the skin look whiter, brighter and more vibrant.
It is also possible to apply it to burn scars on parts of the body such as arms and legs. PRP also makes the skin more resistant to sunlight.
Before PRP Application
After the PRP liquid is obtained using appropriate techniques, it is applied to the area that the person thinks needs aesthetically. Of course, exfoliating the skin and cleansing or purifying the skin tissue before application ensures a better result.
Laser PRP Application
The technique called laser PRP basically involves first a laser application and then PRP application stages. Skin tissue, which is destroyed by laser and encouraged to regenerate, shows a rapid recovery by receiving renewal energy with PRP application.
PRP Sessions
In the PRP technique, session intervals should not be kept too long. Many doctors recommend 21-day intervals for this application. Thanks to the application performed at 21-day intervals according to the number of sessions determined by the doctor, rejuvenation of the skin up to 5 years is guaranteed.
Hair Transplantation with PRP
One of the areas of use of the PRP technique in plastic surgery is hair transplantation. In the FUE hair transplantation technique, hair follicles taken one by one from the nape of the neck are transplanted to the top of the head in the direction of growth.
In order to achieve success, each transplanted hair must attach to the hair root, integrate with it and begin to grow. In PRP hair transplantation, the hair follicles quickly adapt to the roots and the transplantation points become faster.