PRP Therapy in Bellevue
Platelet-rich plasma starts with your own blood: a small draw is concentrated so the platelets — the body's repair coordinators — can be returned to the skin where you want their growth factors working.
Its best-known form here is PRP with microneedling, often called the vampire facial, where the channels of a microneedling session deliver the concentrate directly into the skin.
The same biology serves a wider menu: scar revision, standalone skin rejuvenation, melasma and other pigment concerns, thinning hair, and — on the reconstructive side of the practice — supporting skin recovering from radiation after breast reconstruction.
The treatment
Non-surgical care in a plastic surgeon's practice.
Your blood is drawn and spun in a centrifuge during the same visit, concentrating platelets several-fold. The concentrate is then delivered where the plan calls for it — through microneedling channels for skin quality, or by fine injection for targeted areas such as the scalp.
Because the material is your own, there is nothing synthetic to react to; the appointment's rhythm is draw, prepare, numb, treat.
Where PRP earns its place
With microneedling for texture, tone, and fine lines; over scars as part of a revision plan; on pigment concerns such as melasma alongside a broader regimen; and on early thinning hair, where a series aims to thicken and hold what is active.
What PRP is not is a substitute for the things that add or reposition. It does not fill a hollow, lift anything, or replace a procedure. It works on the quality of tissue you still have, which is why it is almost always one component of a plan rather than the plan itself.
In breast reconstruction, PRP and fat grafting can support skin that radiation has stiffened. That application sits on the reconstructive side of this practice, and it is planned as part of a surgical course of care rather than booked from a treatment menu.
What to expect
Expect the footprint of the delivery method — a day or two of microneedling redness, or small injection points on the scalp that settle quickly. There is no synthetic filler to migrate and nothing to dissolve.
Biology takes its time: changes build over weeks across a series, and the assessment sets honest expectations for your skin or hair pattern before you commit.
Questions, answered
The rest belong in a conversation. Consultations are unhurried by design.
What is a vampire facial?
Microneedling with your own platelet concentrate delivered into the channels as they are created. The nickname is theatrical; the mechanism is straightforward — growth factors placed where the skin is rebuilding.
Does PRP work for hair loss?
It can thicken and hold hair that is thinning but still active, over a series of scalp sessions. It does not resurrect follicles that are gone, and the assessment is honest about which pattern you have.
Can PRP help my scar?
PRP joins scar-revision plans alongside microneedling and, where needed, surgical revision — one tool in a practice that treats scars at every level.
Is there anything synthetic in it?
No — the concentrate is prepared from your own blood during the visit. That is the appeal for patients who want biology rather than product.
How much does PRP cost?
Pricing follows the application and the series length, quoted in writing at your assessment before anything begins. CareCredit and Alphaeon financing are available.