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Microneedling on your face and microneedling on your scalp use the same basic idea. They aim at two
different outcomes.
On the face, the target is the skin: texture, scarring, firmness. On the scalp, the skin is not the
point. The follicle underneath it is.
Creating many small, controlled punctures, and letting your body react to them.
The reaction is the treatment. Blood flow to the area increases and the repair process switches on.
The follicles in that patch of scalp end up in a more active environment than before.
Growth factors that are part of ordinary healing become local to a follicle that had gone dormant.
That is the mechanism. It is indirect, which is why it is slow. It is also why it pairs well with
other treatments.
No, and this is the part worth being careful about.
The needle depth used on a scalp is not the depth used on a face. It is not something to guess at.
Too shallow does nothing, and too deep on a scalp is a bad idea.
Home rollers are also hard to clean properly. You make hundreds of small openings in skin, then roll
the same device over them again next week.
Scalp infections are one way to lose more hair than you started with. There is also the practical
problem that you cannot see the back of your own head.
Because the two do complementary halves of one job.
Microneedling opens the channels and triggers the repair response. PRP puts a concentrated dose of
your own platelets into that area while it is receptive.
One creates the opportunity and the other supplies the material. Done separately, each does part of
the work. Done together in one appointment, they line up.
Combining is not automatically right for everyone. It depends on what your scalp is doing and what
you have tried.
The same plain split as everything else non-surgical.
Follicles that produce hair, just thinner and shorter than before, are what this is for. There is
something there to support.
Follicles that have shut down will not be restarted by needling the skin above them. If an area
has been smooth and bare for years, this is not the answer.
Working out which one you have is a five minute check in person. It is close to impossible on
yourself, especially at the crown.
Modest, and short.
The scalp is usually pink and tender for a day or so, a bit like sunburn. Most people describe it as
noticeable instead of painful.
You will be asked to leave the scalp alone for a short period. Harsh products are out, and so is
swimming. Avoid hats pressed down on it, and avoid strong sun.
Hair washing gets a short pause and then goes back to normal. You get the specifics with your
treatment.
It is a course, not an appointment. Anything that works through the hair growth cycle has to wait for
that cycle.
The realistic version is months before a fair assessment. A photo at the start, in consistent light,
is the only reliable way to judge it later.
Memory is not good enough for this.
Before spending money on the scalp, work out why the hair is thinning.
Thyroid function, iron levels, a recent illness, a new medication and heavy stress all cause hair
loss. Several of them reverse when the cause is treated.
Needling a scalp while an untreated cause works against you is an expensive way to stand in one
place. If nobody has looked into that, say so at the assessment.
If your hair is thinning and you want to know whether this suits your scalp, book an assessment. It
also answers whether it should be combined with something else.
Here is what is involved with microneedling for hair loss in London, Ontario.
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