Successful Hair Transplant Outcome in Cicatricial Lichen Planus of the Scalp by Combining Scalp and Beard Hair Along With Platelet Rich Plasma.

found a considerably significant effect of platelet growth factors on the yield of follicular units over non PRP used conventional hair transplants.[ 8 ] One of the precautions to be taken into account when performing a hair transplant on scarred tissue is that the density in units/cm 2 must be less than on an area of normal scalp transplant (30-40 units/cm 2 ), because of the risk of follicles competing for the reduced blood flow through the scar tissue.[ 9 ] In this patient, lower than normal hair density of 18 units/cm 2 was utilized for transplanting hairs in the scarred patches.

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