How PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) accelerates healing process?

For those who are naive to platelets, platelets are known to form clot in our body, in order to stop it from bleeding & repair the damage.
 
Undoubtedly PRP might sound unfamiliar to you. But to add up to your knowledge PRP has a great significance in your healing process.

What is PRP?

So, as PRP stands for Platelet Rich Plasma, it is understood by the name itself. PRP comprises of plasma with high concentration of platelets derived from your own blood.

How do you extract PRP from the patient’s blood?

Once it is decided that the patient has to undergo PRP procedure, blood is drawn from the patient & centrifuged so that plasma with higher concentration of platelets can be separated from platelet poor plasma & red blood cells.

How PRP accelerates healing?

PRP comprises of Growth factors & cytokines. Whenever there is an injury, platelet releases growth factors in the affected area & aid in regeneration of a new tissue.

Pursuing this further, PRP is added along with bone grafts in cases of dental implants in order to speed up the healing process. While placement of dental implants, restoring defects due to tooth extraction, cyst removal etc, the PRP is placed directly over the area to be treated & is secured with the membranes & sutures.

What are the benefits of PRP?

• It is highly significant for you to know why your dentist would recommend this treatment & the advantages you can expect out of this treatment.
• Since the blood is autologous there are no chances of disease transmission, allergic reactions & rejection.
• At Dr. Sachdeva’s Dental Institute, we have all the equipments & technology required for PRP preparation. With this we can now prepare PRP in our dental office, also no need to worry in emergency situations as well.
• As it’s already mentioned, PRP is very beneficial in accelerating the healing process.
• The procedure is non-invasive & convenient, since with all the required equipments it can be prepared in dental office directly even if the procedure wasn’t scheduled before performing the procedures like dental implants.

If you are interested in learning more about how PRP speed up the recovery time in your dental procedures, don’t hesitate to schedule an appointment at Dr. Sachdeva’s Dental Institute.