How soon after my hair transplant can I do PRP again?

Thank you for your question. You didn’t submit a photo, but ask how soon after your hair transplant can you do PRP scalp treatment. You also mentioned it’s now two weeks since your transplant, and you’ve developed a flaky scalp.
I can give you some guidance on how PRP, and something else I’ll discuss further, can have potential value in context of your hair transplant. A little background: I’m a Board-certified cosmetic surgeon and Fellowship-trained oculofacial plastic and reconstructive surgeon. I have been in practice in Manhattan and Long Island for over 20 years. I am the founder of TrichoStem™ Hair Regeneration Centers, a system we developed using PRP as well as Acellular matrix to non-surgically treat male and female pattern hair loss. We’ve established a new category in the treatment of hair loss, now going into seven years of treating patients.
It’s very important for you to understand first the normal healing process for a hair transplant, then I’ll share with you my strategy on how I help patients who come to us from around the world after hair transplant to help optimize their results. The flaky skin after the transplant is probably a combination of the scabs from the transplant, and dead skin that tends to accumulate after transplantation.
A lot of patients are a little too cautious washing their hair after a hair transplant because their afraid that they’re going to lose their grafts. After doing hair transplants for a long time, I can tell you that after 48 hours, it takes a surgical instrument to make transplanted hair grafts come out, so it’s not likely hair is coming out. Myself and my technicians are often counseling patients on how to wash their hair properly, and scrub their scalp to get rid of these flaky areas. This is a question you should pose to your hair transplant surgeon about aftercare because you have to make sure there’s nothing else going on, especially if you have any history of seborrheic dermatitis which potentially needs to be managed. In the absence of a photo and medical history, I can’t comment beyond that.
With PRP, it is long overdue as dermatology literature is acknowledging PRP does have many benefits. Even though there have been thousands of articles, I’ve now been more aware of recent publications which acknowledge this, and finally PRP is slowly being accepted.
However, with the hair growth effect of PRP, what we’ve done in our practice for the past seven years has taken the treatment of both hair loss and wound healing to a different level. What we’ve developed is something called Hair Regeneration, which I’ll explain further.  Years ago, when we wanted hair transplant grafts and the donor area to heal better, we used a material called extracellular matrix. We found the wound healing improved, grafts healed sooner, and growth of the hair grafts actually occurred earlier. Another benefit was thinning hair actually became thicker. We developed an opportunity to help people with hair thinning without surgery. What we did over the first several years is develop a system of doing these injections using PRP and extracellular matrix, and an algorithm and system to treat men and women with genetic pattern loss, as well as other hair loss conditions.
We’ve been able to establish that someone who has a hair transplant, there is a window of opportunity a within the first 1-3 months where we can help that person’s healing. We can expedite the healing of the grafts, improve the healing of the tissue traumatized by all of these surgical procedures,and help the thinning native hairs often compromised from the surgery - native hairs in the same neighborhood as the grafted hairs, which we can help regrow and strengthen.
On its own without the transplant, Hair Regeneration can stop progression, reactivate hair not currently growing, thicken hair that is thinning, and induce the shed of thinning hair so thicker hair can grow in its place.
When you ask the question of when can you do PRP, I would say you should allow the scabs and the top of the scalp to become more clear and stable. I think you can start as early as a month after the transplant. PRP can probably help you with the healing process, but I have found the treatment of Hair Regeneration with PRP and Acellular matrix which is a wound healing material, leverages your own ability to generate adult stem cells in a way for tremendous benefit in healing wounds in the skin, muscle, and other areas. In terms of tissue quality, it has made a big impact in a lot of the surgical procedures we do. This combination has been significant in changing the narrative of managing hair loss as well as helping people, who regardless of whether we do their transplant, or have it done elsewhere, have found the benefits of this wound healing technology.
I think you should ask this question about PRP to your doctor. Learn more about Hair Regeneration and Acellular matrix, become more knowledgeable, then come up with a plan suited for your situation. I hope that was helpful, I wish you the best of luck, and thank you for your question.

This is a great question. New research shows that PRP can help new hair grafts and transplants take. Studies indicate that PRP could be beneficial 2-4 weeks after the hair transplant procedure and should be continued on a monthly basis. Hope this is helpful!