PRF Hair Restoration in Lafayette, CA

Why the scaffold matters more for hair than almost anywhere else. A hair cycle is measured in months. A growth factor release measured in hours is over almost before the follicle has responded. PRF holds the signal at the follicle and keeps delivering it for days, which is a better match for how slowly hair actually works.

And there’s no donor material, no plant material, and nothing manufactured. It’s your own tissue, concentrated and returned to your scalp.

The alopecias I treat with this

Different types of hair loss, one common requirement: the follicle needs support to cycle again.

Androgenic alopecia

The most common by a wide margin. Pattern thinning at the crown and along the part, driven by hormonal signalling and DHT sensitivity, arriving or accelerating in your forties as estrogen declines. Responds well, and it responds considerably better when the hormonal driver is addressed alongside rather than ignored.

Traction alopecia

Years of tension from tight styles, braids, weaves, extensions, and locs, showing up along the hairline and at the temples. This is badly under-discussed in aesthetic medicine and it’s one of the types where timing genuinely matters. Caught while the follicle is viable, it responds. Left long enough, the follicle scars and no treatment brings it back.

If you’ve been styling with tension for years and your hairline is receding at the temples, come in sooner rather than later. I’d far rather see you early and tell you it’s manageable.

Telogen effluvium

Sudden heavy shedding that traces back two to three months to an illness, a surgery, a major stressor, a crash diet, or a medication change. The delay is why the cause is so often missed. This usually recovers, and PRF alongside correcting the underlying trigger shortens the recovery considerably.

CCCA and scarring alopecias

Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia is a scarring alopecia, most common in Black women, and it’s frequently diagnosed late because the early stages are subtle and it’s often mistaken for traction alopecia or ordinary thinning.

I want to be precise here, because this is where honesty matters most. Scarring alopecia destroys the follicle. Where the follicle is already gone, no treatment regrows hair, and any practice telling you otherwise is selling you something.

What PRF can do is support the follicles that are still viable at the active border, reduce the inflammatory activity driving the progression, and improve the scalp environment. Early is everything. The value here is in preserving what you still have.

And this is co-managed. CCCA needs a proper diagnosis, which may mean a scalp biopsy, and it often needs anti-inflammatory management alongside. I work with your dermatologist rather than instead of them. You get the internal work, the scalp environment, and the regenerative treatment here, and the diagnostic and prescription side stays with them.

The internal half, and why it isn’t optional

I won’t do this treatment in isolation, and it’s worth explaining why rather than just saying so.

PRF gives your follicle a strong signal. If the follicle is still short on iron, still receiving the wrong thyroid signal, still sitting in an inflamed scalp, or still under a hormonal shift nobody has looked at, the signal arrives and the follicle can’t act on it.

So we test first. Full thyroid, ferritin and iron studies, hormones including androgens, vitamin D, B vitamins, zinc, inflammatory markers, and nutrient status. Then we correct what’s actually driving your shedding.

That’s the Healthy Hair program, and it runs alongside the treatments rather than after them.

Skip it and you’ll get some result. Do both and you’ll get considerably more, and it will hold.

What to expect

Before. Scalp assessment, testing, and standardized photographs so we can measure this rather than argue about it in six months.

The blood draw. Small, at the start of the appointment, processed in the room while you’re there.

The treatment. About 50 minutes. The concentrated PRF is placed into the areas of thinning.

Comfort. Around a three out of ten. The scalp is sensitive and I won’t pretend otherwise, and it’s brief.

Afterward. Twenty-four to forty-eight hours of scalp tenderness and possible mild swelling. No real healing time beyond that.

The series. Five sessions in the first year, spaced roughly monthly, then two maintenance treatments per year after that.

The timeline, honestly. Shedding settles first, often within the first couple of months, and that’s the earliest sign it’s working. Visible density takes three to six months, because that’s how fast hair grows. Nobody can shorten that and you should be suspicious of anyone who says they can.

What I add. Exosomes, PDRN, hair peptides, and nutrient boosters, chosen from your assessment, plus a home care plan that matters more here than in most treatments because hair responds to consistency.

A note on candidacy. If you’re on blood thinners, or you have a clotting disorder, a platelet disorder, polycythemia vera, or another blood dyscrasia, we’ll go through that carefully before booking.

PRP hair restoration near me: why women in the East Bay come here

• PRF rather than PRP, which holds the growth factor signal at the follicle for days rather than hours. For something as slow as a hair cycle, that difference matters.

• Nothing synthetic. Your own blood, spun with no additives.

• The internal half is included, not optional. Thyroid, ferritin, hormones, and inflammation tested and corrected, because a follicle can’t act on a signal it doesn’t have the resources for.

• Every alopecia type assessed properly, including traction alopecia and CCCA, which are chronically under-addressed in aesthetic medicine.

• I’ll tell you when regrowth isn’t realistic, including when a follicle has scarred, rather than selling you five sessions that were never going to work.

• Co-managed where it should be, with your dermatologist, rather than either of us working around the other.

• Measured with standardized photography, so progress is evidence rather than opinion.

• An award winning doctor with fifteen years of practice in the East Bay. I’ve been voted Best Doctor of the East Bay, and I have page after page of five star reviews that show how hard I work for my patients.

I’m in Lafayette, CA, easy to reach from Walnut Creek, Orinda, Moraga, Danville, Alamo, Pleasant Hill, Berkeley, Oakland, and the broader East Bay.