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"When people lose hair, the follicles don't go away, they just become dormant," explains Bruce Katz, M.D., dermatologist and director of the JUVA Skin & Laser Center in New York. "When we inject PRP into the scalp, it actually stimulates the stem cells in the hair root that turn on the hair follicle again."