under or over the eyelid
What is PRP for skin?
Platelet-Rich-Plasma (PRP), is a great injectable treatment for naturally rejuvenating your skin and repairing the signs of aging. The treatment involves reinjecting your own platelet-rich plasma into your skin, delivering an abundance of growth factors that stimulate the body's natural healing response. PRP process leads to a slowing down of the aging process, improving the skin texture and tone, diminishing fine lines, wrinkles, and scars, and gradual increase in skin thickness and vitality.
PRP is a process whereby blood is taken from a patient from a vein in the forearm. The blood is spun very quickly using a specialist piece of equipment known as a centrifuge. This very fast spinning causes the blood to separate and then the plasma is extracted and injected into the client’s choice.
Usually, procedures takes up to an hour and 1–3 treatments are advised or more, depending on different skin parameters, such as age, baseline condition as a result of smoking, sun damage, genetics and others.
PRP treatment is safe as is derived from the patient's own blood, minimalizing safety concerns for allergic response or disease transmission. Furthermore, PRP may be used in sensitive areas such as fine skin around the eyes which are not suited for other treatments.
Maintenance once-twice a year.
Results
Since PRP stimulates biological effects, results are not immediate, generally visible in three weeks' time and it improves over 6 to 12 months depending on skin conditions, the extent of wrinkles and scaring, smoking, and alcohol consumption. After treatment skin redness and sensitivity may appear.
Contraindications
- Pregnancy
- Cancer
- Skin disease
- Platelet dysfunction syndrome
- Thrombocytopenia
- Before treatment don’t use NSAID drugs within 48 hours
Side effects and risks
- Skin redness
- Mild bruising
- Bleeding
- Pain or itching of the injection site
- Swelling
- Allergic reaction to the solution
- Headache