What PRP Costs, and Why the Per-Session Price Misleads

It is priced per session, and what actually matters is the course your diagnosis calls for rather than a single-session figure. Because the course is planned from your assessment, we quote afterwards and give it to you in writing. A per-session price on its own tells you very little about what you will end up spending.

Partly the preparation method and equipment used, partly who performs it, and partly how many sessions a clinic expects to sell. A low per-session rate attached to a large mandatory package is not cheaper than a higher rate on a course you can stop.

It depends on your diagnosis and how you respond, and it should be reviewed rather than fixed at the start. A clinic that can tell you the exact number before examining you is describing a package, not a plan.

We would advise against committing to a large block upfront, and this is the most important thing on this page. PRP does not work for everyone. Prepaying for a fixed number of sessions removes your ability to stop when the photographs show nothing is changing, and it removes the clinic's incentive to tell you.

Only if you would have had all the sessions anyway and they were working. A discounted block that you complete out of obligation rather than response is more expensive than a smaller number of sessions at a higher rate. The discount is real; whether it is value depends on the outcome.

The consultation and assessment that establishes the diagnosis, the preparation and the session itself, baseline and interval photography, and the review where response is actually assessed. Ask specifically whether photography and review are included, because they are the parts that tell you if it is working.

Not reliably. Preparation systems differ and so do the people performing it, but price is a weak proxy for either. What matters more is whether you were properly diagnosed first, whether the person treating you is qualified, and whether the response is being measured against a baseline.

No, and this catches people out. PRP is generally a supportive treatment used alongside the main treatment for pattern hair loss. Medical treatment is a separate cost and is stated separately on your estimate.

A proportion of patients do not respond, and that is stated before treatment starts rather than after. If interval photographs against your baseline show no change, the plan changes. That is only possible if you have not prepaid for a fixed block.

They are not alternatives, so the comparison is less useful than it looks. A transplant is a one-off surgical cost that moves permanent hair. PRP is an ongoing supportive cost that maintains hair you still have. Someone with established baldness will not save money by choosing PRP; they will spend money on the wrong treatment.

Yes, and it should be planned for rather than discovered. PRP does not alter the underlying process of pattern hair loss, so benefit is maintained rather than banked. Ask any clinic what happens after the initial course before you compare their price to anyone else's.

GFC is often priced above PRP on the basis that it is a newer preparation. The evidence does not currently establish that it outperforms PRP, so a premium is being charged for a claim rather than a demonstrated advantage. See GFC treatment for the honest comparison.

Payment options are set out on our cost and EMI options page, and what applies to you is confirmed at consultation.

A consultation. If your hair loss turns out to be driven by iron deficiency or a thyroid problem, treating that is far cheaper than any course of injections and considerably more likely to work. Paying for a diagnosis first is the best value available in this whole category.