Vienna, Virginia
TrichoStem Hair Regeneration is a non-surgical treatment for male and female pattern hair loss, developed by Dr. Amiya Prasad, a multi-specialty board-certified surgeon. No incision, no donor area, and for most patients, one or two appointments rather than something to remember every morning.
Individual results vary and no result is guaranteed. Whether this treatment suits you is decided at a consultation, not online.
Seen at Tysons Medical West
1500 Cornerside Blvd., Tysons Medical West, Suite 510
Vienna, VA 22182
What we treat
The centre treats one problem and treats it thoroughly. If your hair has lost thickness rather than disappeared entirely, you are describing the situation this protocol was built around.
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Androgenetic alopecia in men, from early recession and thinning at the crown through to more established patterns. The treatment is aimed at follicles that have miniaturised and are still producing fine hair, rather than at areas that have been completely bare for years.
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Diffuse thinning through the top of the scalp and a widening part, which is the pattern most women experience. Women are often told there is little to offer them short of daily topical treatment, and this is a different option to discuss.
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Hair that is still present but has lost calibre, so the scalp shows through under bright light even though the hair count has not dropped dramatically. This is the situation the protocol was originally developed around.
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Patients who have had transplant surgery and are unhappy with the density they achieved, or whose surrounding native hair has continued to thin around the grafts. The consultation covers what can realistically be improved.
Not sure whether your pattern falls into any of these? That is the question the consultation exists to answer, and the answer is sometimes that a different approach would serve you better.
See how a consultation worksHow TrichoStem works
The treatment uses your own blood combined with a wound-healing material, injected into the thinning areas of your scalp. Here is the whole sequence, start to finish.
The visit starts the way a routine blood test would. A small sample is taken from your arm and spun in a centrifuge to separate out the platelet-rich plasma, the fraction of blood that carries the growth factors your body already uses to repair tissue.
That plasma is combined with extracellular matrix, a wound-healing material made by ACell. On its own, plasma is absorbed quickly. The matrix is what gives the growth factors a scaffold to sit in, and working out that formulation is the part Dr. Prasad developed.
The combined material is injected into the thinning areas of the scalp after the area has been numbed. The treatment itself takes place in a single appointment, and most people return to normal activity the same day without bandaging or a recovery period.
Nothing visible happens on the day. The intent is to support follicles that have thinned so that they produce thicker hair again, and that plays out over months rather than weeks. Most patients are treated once or twice rather than on an ongoing schedule.
The part Dr. Prasad worked out is the formulation: how the extracellular matrix and the plasma are combined and where they are placed. That is what separates this from a plain platelet-rich plasma treatment, and it is why the course is measured in one or two appointments rather than a standing monthly booking.
The physician
Founder of TrichoStem Hair Regeneration Centers, and the surgeon who developed the protocol.
Amiya Prasad, M.D., F.A.C.S. is a prominent multi-specialty, board-certified cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon who has been in practice in New York City and Long Island for over 20 years. He has helped people with hair loss throughout his career, beginning with surgical hair transplantation, and he is the founder of TrichoStem Hair Regeneration Centers.
Dr. Prasad completed his medical training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, followed by specialty training through the University of Texas in Houston and Galveston and at Baylor College of Medicine. He is board-certified in facial cosmetic surgery as well as breast, body and extremity surgery, and he is a Fellow of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery and the American College of Surgeons.
His work with hair loss grew out of an unrelated part of his surgical practice. Dr. Prasad had extensive experience applying extracellular matrix, or ECM, made by ACell, Inc. to support healing in surgical procedures such as facelift surgery. In the course of that work he observed that patients treated with ECM were also growing thicker hair in the treated areas. That observation, combined with his background in hair transplant surgery and a careful review of his own patient data, led him to develop the TrichoStem Hair Regeneration System in 2011.
The system is derived from stem cell-based wound healing technology, and Dr. Prasad's insight into the formulation and application of extracellular matrix has made it one of the most sought-after non-surgical treatments for pattern hair loss. He established TrichoStem Hair Regeneration Centers to make the treatment available beyond his New York practices, and he sees patients at the Vienna, Virginia office as well as in Manhattan and Garden City, Long Island.
Why patients choose this centre
Plenty of clinics offer an injectable for hair loss. The difference here is where the protocol came from and who is holding the syringe.
Dr. Prasad developed the TrichoStem Hair Regeneration System in 2011 and has refined it across more than a decade of his own patients. When you ask why something is done a particular way, the answer comes from the person who worked it out rather than from a manual.
Dr. Prasad is board-certified in facial cosmetic surgery and in breast, body and extremity surgery, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery and the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Hair loss is assessed by a surgeon who can also tell you when surgery is not the answer.
There is no incision, no strip, no follicular unit extraction and no donor site to heal. That matters for people who are not candidates for transplant surgery, who do not want a procedure with visible downtime, or who simply want to try something less invasive first.
The protocol is built around a small number of treatments rather than a product you have to remember every morning for the rest of your life. For many patients that is the practical difference that makes them consider it at all.
The treatment exists because a surgeon noticed hair thickening around an unrelated wound-healing application and followed the observation instead of dismissing it. That willingness to work outside the standard frame is the reason this option is on the table.
Patients across Northern Virginia and the Washington, DC area are seen at the Tysons Medical West office in Vienna, rather than having to travel to New York for an assessment.
Outcomes and expectations
Hair loss is a field with a long history of overstatement. This section is deliberately plain about where the line sits between what is reported and what is guaranteed.
TrichoStem publishes that most patients are treated in one to two sessions and that patients report thicker hair lasting three to five years or longer. These are the practice's own reported outcomes across its patient population, not a projection for any individual.
Age, sex, how early the thinning began, how far it has progressed, the medications you take and your general health all influence what is realistic. Two people with the same visible pattern can reasonably be given different advice.
This is not a cure for pattern hair loss and it does not create hair where follicles are entirely gone. Areas that have been completely bare for many years are unlikely to respond, and that will be said plainly at the consultation rather than after payment.
Change is gradual and hard to see day to day, which is why standardised photographs at the start give you something objective to compare against later. Progress is reviewed against those images rather than against memory.
Individual results vary and no result is guaranteed. Nothing on this website is a promise of a particular outcome, and nothing here is medical advice. Whether this treatment is appropriate for you can only be determined in a consultation with a physician.
Common questions
Six more are answered in full on the FAQ page, covering cost, aftercare, what to bring and availability in Vienna.
The treatment is aimed at follicles that have thinned but are still producing hair. If your hair has lost calibre, if the scalp is starting to show through under bright light, or if your part has widened, you are in the group this protocol was developed around. Men with pattern hair loss, women with diffuse thinning through the top of the scalp, and people whose native hair has continued to thin after a transplant are all commonly assessed.
Areas that have been completely bare for many years are a different situation. Where the follicle is gone, no injected treatment brings it back, and you will be told that directly rather than sold a course of treatment that cannot deliver. Candidacy is a clinical judgement about your scalp, so it is settled at a consultation rather than online.
A hair transplant relocates hair you already have. Follicles are taken from the back of the scalp, either as a strip or through follicular unit extraction, and placed where hair has been lost. It is surgery, it needs a donor area that has to heal, and the total amount of hair on your head does not increase.
TrichoStem Hair Regeneration is not surgery and does not move hair. There is no incision, no donor site and no graft. The intent is to support the follicles you still have so that thinning hair produces thicker hair. Because Dr. Prasad performs transplant surgery as well, the consultation can honestly compare the two rather than defend one of them, including telling you when surgery would genuinely serve you better.
Nothing is visible on the day of treatment, and nothing much is visible in the first weeks. The process being supported is biological, so it moves at the speed of a hair growth cycle rather than the speed of a cosmetic procedure. Most patients are looking at a period of months before change is apparent to them.
This is the reason baseline photographs are taken before treatment. Gradual thickening across the whole scalp is genuinely difficult to notice from day to day, and comparing against a standardised image from the start is far more reliable than comparing against memory.
There are two parts that involve a needle. The first is the blood draw, which is the same as any routine blood test. The second is the scalp treatment itself, and the area is numbed before that begins.
Most patients describe the experience as manageable rather than painless, with some pressure and brief stinging during the injections. Tenderness of the scalp afterwards is common for a short period and settles on its own. If you are anxious about needles, say so at the consultation, because it can be planned for rather than discovered on the day.
In a patient voice
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What stayed with me was being told plainly which parts of my scalp were likely to respond and which were not. I had spent two years being sold certainty by people who had never looked at my head.
I went in expecting to be booked for surgery and left with a recommendation to wait six months and photograph it properly first. That is not the appointment I thought I was walking into.
The part that mattered to me was that it was one appointment rather than something I had to remember every single morning. I had already failed at the daily version twice.
Nobody promised me anything, which I found reassuring rather than worrying. The photographs at the start meant I could actually judge the change instead of guessing at it.
Next step
The first appointment exists to answer one question: whether this treatment is a reasonable option for your pattern of hair loss. If the answer is no, you will be told so.
1500 Cornerside Blvd., Tysons Medical West, Suite 510
Vienna, VA 22182
Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday, closed
Appointments in Vienna are scheduled in advance rather than held daily. Send an inquiry and you will be told the next available dates.