We have partnered with CARE Esthetics to provide cutting-edge, regenerative treatments to our patients! We offer Plasma Rich Fibrin (PRF) for an all natural approach to beauty treatments that would traditionally use artificial products and chemicals. PRF is made from pulling your own blood and using a centrifuge to extract plasma, growth factors, healing factors, platelets, and more to utilize for treatment. We offer:

  • Facial microneedling with PRF

  • Bio-Filler (Filler with PRF)

  • Hair Regrowth Treatment

  • Acne Treatment

If you are interested, please schedule a consult by emailing [email protected] or by calling our office at 719-545-2468.

For more information check out a video of Dr. Thomas explaining more about PRF and CARE Esthetics at our office or visit https://care-esthetics.com

Hello there! This is Dr. Thomas at Integrity Dental, and it is good to see you all! Today we are going to discuss some questions that have come up with some new treatment, new technology that we have been implementing here at Integrity Dental in Pueblo, CO. And that technology is Platelet Rich Fibrin or PRF is the abbreviation. You may have heard of a similar technology called PRP or platelet rich plasma. So, we are going to get into some of the differences and what all that means here today and how it helps people!

What is PRF?

PRF is part of you! Specifically, it is part of your blood. It stands for Platelet Rich Fibrin. The process involves taking a blood draw on patients and then we have a centrifuge that we spin that blood in at different speeds that isolate out different parts of our blood like white blood cells, healing factors, growth factors, and things that are really beneficial for people, especially when it comes to healing and nutrients. These can get put in surgical sites, to different places like the face and skin, and it can be extremely helpful to things like that.

Why should you go to a dental office for PRF procedures?

Well, you shouldn’t come to a dental office for all of them. PRF is becoming very beneficial and popular for lots of different things like joint injections, it can be extremely helpful for the healing of joints. If you have joint surgery of some kind, it can be very beneficial to that. Or it can even be helpful for chronic injuries. It can provide lubrication to joints, pain relief, it can even provide long term healing. I myself have even used PRF in my shoulder. Now we can’t offer that here in the dental office. But what we offer here are things that we are qualified for which are the head and neck area. The dentist is very qualified for a lot of aesthetic procedures including Botox and Fillers for the head and neck region. The amount of schooling that we go through in dental school for the head and neck area in particular is second to nobody in the medical profession unless you have someone who has done a specific study there, like maybe a head and neck plastic surgeon. So, very few people know that area as well as we do, so when it comes to doing Botox, or filler, or PRF for skin in that area or PRF for filler in those areas or a bunch of other procedures, dentists are very qualified if not the most qualified for those.

What PRF procedures can we get done at Integrity Dental?

We are beginning to offer several different things in the esthetic world. So, when we are talking about the esthetic world, when we are talking about spa treatments, we are talking about PRF Facials. Most people have heard of vampire facials, and this takes a very similar product, but a superior product (PRF), to what they use in vampire facials, and we spread it over the face and then we do a microneedling procedure over the PRF to incorporate it into the different layers of skin. It is extremely helpful in providing nutrients to the skin, helping it maintain a healthier consistency, and over a long period of maintenance, it provides a lot of anti-aging effects to the skin in the head and neck area (the areas we are qualified for) and this is something that we can do at your regular 6 month dental cleanings. You can also use PRF to do injections in the scalp if you see thinning of the hair. We can actually take a blood draw and treat your scalp in a specific way to help encourage hair regrowth, hair thickening. We also use PRF in the Dental/Surgical world to help with procedures like implants, wisdom tooth removal, bone grafts, and other procedures like that. What it does is really help with the post operative pain be very minimal and in wisdom teeth it takes the risk of a dry socket to almost zero. With implants, the healing time is drastically reduced, and the amount of pain after the fact is greatly diminished. We have seen some amazing results out of Platelet Rich Fibrin technology with what it does in the bone grafting world because it helps preserve so much more bone and makes it heal so much faster and so much more completely.

Another procedure that we can do is injections with PRF under the skin to help fill in defects. We actually treat the PRF under a certain amount of heat that will turn your Platelet Rich Fibrin into a gel that we use as filler. So, it is a much less expensive means of getting facial filler if you are filling in wrinkles and things like that in the head and neck area. We can get a lot more material from this. And not only does the material fill space, it also provides health and nutrients to those areas so that over time it can help the skin tone be better, healthier, and look younger.

We can also use this as an acne treatment. I have actually used this on my son’s back! We have seen some pretty awesome results as far as it decreasing the amount of acne that he gets on his back as well as taking away some of the scarring from acne. So, if you are a patient who has or has had bad acne, this can be an awesome thing to help heal that skin and help it look healthy and young.

Does everyone qualify for these procedures?

Not everybody will qualify for these procedures, but most people will! The main concern that we would have is for cancer patients. Unfortunately, if you have cancer, or you are not certified by your doctor to be cancer free, we cannot treat you. The reason being, if you do have cancer and we treat you, the cancer cells in your blood have a very similar weight to the healing factors, grow factors, and other parts of your blood that we are spinning and separating. So, if we inject that into another site, there is a possibility, even though it is small, that we could spread those cancer cells.so, we do not allow people that are undergoing cancer treatment as it is not safe or appropriate for them. What we ask is that you are cancer free for 5 years, or you get a note from your doctor saying that you are cancer free. Other than that, it is an extremely safe procedure, there is no chance of rejection, this is just your own body!

Is PRF safe?

It is very safe so long as you stick to those parameters. We have a lot of highly trained people here that are phlebotomists, nurses, and even doctors who are pretty well trained to do the blood draws. That is probably the most dangerous part of the procedure, but we are very good at that! PRF is really mostly an add on to procedures that we do that makes those procedures better.

What are your future plans for PRF?

Well, we are launching on September 5th, 2025! We are partnering with CARE Esthetics to open Integrity Dental Spa and that is something we are going to be offering at least once a month. Just like you getting your routine maintenance and dental cleaning here, we are going to be offering some skin maintenance in the form of those microneedling facials as well as all of the other esthetic treatments we talked about (hair regrowth, acne treatments, facial fillers, etc.). We will also still be offering Botox! The plan is to take one day out of a month to offer and schedule those things, unless we start seeing a bigger need and demand for those things. Again, that is Friday, September 5th, 2025, for that launch date!

How can I get scheduled to discuss PRF Treatments?

It is very simple! If you want to, call us here at Integrity Dental and ask for a FREE consultation to give you an idea of what cost you would be looking at and address the concerns that you have. We are offering that starting on September 5th, 2025, that is our first day offering these consultations and then setting up treatment from there. You can get these treatments more than just the day per month that we set aside for esthetics if you choose to, we will offer those treatments throughout our regularly scheduled days. But a lot of times it is nicer for people to get that spa feel, and we are going to decorate our office up and have it have a relaxing atmosphere on those days and would hate for patients to miss out on that! So, call our office at (719)545-2468 to request a FREE consultation on what PRF can do for you!