The Elixir of Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy in Intervention Dermatology and Regenerative Trichology

This book highlights the regenerative capacity of human body when guided in the right direction. Platelet rich plasma’s growth factors, when released in diseased or injured areas, have the capability to enhance the healing capacity and minimize the side effects of the adjuvant procedures being carried out to quicken the healing process. The usage of platelet rich plasma therapy has grown in last decade in the fields of dermatology and plastic surgery. This book is a vast review of literature, along with personal experience and innovative work by the editor and the authors, in the preparation of platelet rich plasma; the controversies and difference of opinion involved; and finally, the role of live cells, including follicular stem cells, in combination with platelet rich plasma therapy as the prospective future of regenerative medicine. This book will be of interest to dermatologists, plastic surgeons, physicians, orthopedicians, otolaryngologists and dental surgeons.This book highlights the regenerative capacity of human body when guided in the right direction. Platelet rich plasma’s growth factors, when released in diseased or injured areas, have the capability to enhance the healing capacity and minimize the side effects of the adjuvant procedures being carried out to quicken the healing process. The usage of platelet rich plasma therapy has grown in last decade in the fields of dermatology and plastic surgery. This book is a vast review of literature, along with personal experience and innovative work by the editor and the authors, in the preparation of platelet rich plasma; the controversies and difference of opinion involved; and finally, the role of live cells, including follicular stem cells, in combination with platelet rich plasma therapy as the prospective future of regenerative medicine. This book will be of interest to dermatologists, plastic surgeons, physicians, orthopedicians, otolaryngologists and dental surgeons.

Dr Suruchi Garg is the Director and Chief Consultant at Aura Skin Institute, Chandigarh, India. She completed her post-graduate studies in dermatology at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India; advanced lasers training at Alma Lasers Caesarea, Israel; and hair transplant training from the Hair Science Centre (RESTORE), Denver, US. She attained the ‘Young Dermatologist Forum Award’ at Dermacon in 2008 for her work surrounding cutaneous vasculitis, and the ‘Distinguished Scholar Award’ by the EJSR in 2020 for her contribution to the study of scarring alopecia. She is the program director of ‘Lasers and Aesthetics’ for the Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists (IADVL). She has innovated a surgical technique for the treatment of vitiligo (LAPEEST) through faster repigmentation, and has filed an AI based patent for non–surgical facelifts through fat repositioning. Currently, she is an editorial member of Indian Dermatology Online Journal and CosmoDerma, Key Opinion Leader for Alma Lasers, Israel and BTL aesthetics, Prague, focussing on the innovation, safety and efficacy of aesthetic treatments of Asian skin types.

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