Title: Platelet-rich plasma—an ‘Elixir’ for treatment of alopecia: personal experience on 117 patients with review of literature

Biography:

Dr. Suruchi Garg née Gupta is the Founder Director and Chief Consultant Dermatologist and Hair Transplant Surgeon at AuraSkinInstitute. A scholar throughout her career, she is a board certified Dermatologist from world renowned and India's premier tertiary care Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. She spent around 6 years at this institute and then also worked as Senior Consultant Dermatologist and Cosmetologist at Fortis Hospital, Mohali.

She is an internationally trained Dermato-Laser and Hair transplant surgeon. She has taken advanced training (certified) at USA, Europe and Israel and has been bestowed with many prestigious national and international honors for her extraordinary and consistent contributions in the field of laser treatments, body contouring and Hair Transplant. Dr. Suruchi has introduced many latest laser treatments at Chandigarh, few of them being first in the country.

She is a passionate nutritionist and has special flair for highly skilled procedures in regenerative medicine using PRP therapy. She is using it for new skin formation for burns, scars and stretch marks; or to improve the outcome of hair transplant and non-surgical facelifts.

She has developed an innovative and breakthrough surgical treatment for Vitiligo patients and has named it as 'Laser-assisted PRP enriched epidermal suspension transplant' (LA-PEEST).

Her latest contribution is a patented protocol on non-surgical face-lift utilizing energy-based device by reposing one's own drooping facial fat planes, thus taking away or minimizing the requirement of fillers!

Dr. Suruchi Garg is the Programme Director of IADVL to train postgraduate Dermatology fellows in "Lasers and Aesthetic Dermatology". She is also a member of Board of Governors in "Centre for Excellence by Alma Lasers and Glenmark" – a prestigious laser training course.

She is also a reviewer for upcoming research articles in prestigious journals like Stem cell investigation, Journal of Cutaneous and Medical Surgery, IJDVL and IDOJ in her area of expertise. She is invited faculty for various national and international conferences of high repute. She keeps writing articles on latest innovations in Skin and Hair care in various journals and also in different daily National newspapers for public awareness and from time to time keeps educating people through Radio and Television interviews.

With an aim to reach out to the community and help the common man, she and her team regularly keeps conducting "Free Skin and Hair Camps” in and around Chandigarh.

 

Abstract

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has emerged as a new treatment modality in regenerative plastic surgery and dermatology. PRP is a simple, cost-effective and feasible treatment option with high patient satisfaction for hair loss and can be regarded as a valuable adjuvant treatment modality for androgenic alopecia and other types of non-scarring alopecias. Authors have proposed a hair model termed “Golden anchorage with ‘molecular locking’ of ectodermal and mesenchymal components for survival and integrity of hair follicle (HF)” in this article. Golden anchorage comprises of bulge stem cells, ectodermal basement membrane and bulge portion of APM. PRP with its autologous supply of millions of growth factors works on ‘Golden anchorage’ along with keratinocytes (PDGF), dermal papilla (IGF and fibroblast growth factor), vasculature (VEGF and PDGF) and neural cells (Nerve Growth Factor) in a multipronged manner serving as an ‘elixir’ for hair growth and improving overall environment.

Keywords: Platelet-rich plasma (PRP), platelet growth factors, alopecia, androgenetic alopecia

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has emerged as a new treatment modality in regenerative plastic surgery and dermatology. PRP is a simple, cost-effective and feasible treatment option with high patient satisfaction for hair loss and can be regarded as a valuable adjuvant treatment modality for androgenic alopecia and other types of non-scarring alopecias. Authors have proposed a hair model termed “Golden anchorage with ‘molecular locking’ of ectodermal and mesenchymal components for survival and integrity of hair follicle (HF)” in this article. Golden anchorage comprises of bulge stem cells, ectodermal basement membrane and bulge portion of APM. PRP with its autologous supply of millions of growth factors works on ‘Golden anchorage’ along with keratinocytes (PDGF), dermal papilla (IGF and fibroblast growth factor), vasculature (VEGF and PDGF) and neural cells (Nerve Growth Factor) in a multipronged manner serving as an ‘elixir’ for hair growth and improving overall environment.

Keywords: Platelet-rich plasma (PRP), platelet growth factors, alopecia, androgenetic alopecia