What Is Platelet Rich Fibrin?
Platelet Rich Fibrin (PRF) is an amazing and essential dental innovation. It’s a bio-friendly substance originating from the body which promotes quick healing and resistant to tissue rejection. Platelet rich fibrin is a biproduct of blood rich in platelets. New science has created tools that enable doctors to harvest and produce sufficiently enough quantities. Blood is drawn from the patient during outpatient surgery. It allows for faster healing time and a more comfortable procedure for the patient.
How Platelet Rich Fibrin Works In Your Body
Platelet Rich Fibrin, or PRF, allows the body to accelerate the healing process resulting in quicker recovery times and less probability of inflammation. PRF permits the body to take advantage of the normal healing pathways at a greatly accelerated rate. During the healing process, the body rushes many cells and cell types to the wound in order to initiate the healing process. One of those cell types is platelets. Platelets perform many functions, including forming a blood clot and releasing growth factors (GF) into the wound. These GF (platelet-derived growth factors PGDF, transforming growth factor beta TGF, and insulin-like growth factor ILGF) function to assist the body in repairing itself by stimulating stem cells to regenerate new tissue. The more growth factors are released into the surgical site, the more stem cells are stimulated to produce new host tissue. Thus, one can easily see that PRF permits the body to heal faster and more efficiently.
The Many Clinical Applications Of Platelet Rich Fibrin:
- Covering/securing bone grafts for dental implants
- Speeding repair of bone defects after removal of teeth or small cysts, especially in medially-compromised patients (smokers, diabetics, on blood thinners, on bisphosphonates, etc.)
- Repairing communications between the sinus and oral cavity
- Preventing dry sockets
