PRP Facials and Younger-Looking Skin

PRP facials come with several names and several promises. This page sets one dermatology description beside the way menus tend to word it.

Names that sound interchangeable

A page at www.aad.org is titled Is platelet-rich plasma the secret to younger-looking skin? The title uses platelet-rich plasma. A sentence on the same page uses "vampire facial."

A clinic menu may say PRP facial, a third name. Read how that page ties its names together before you compare it with any menu.

What the sentence says, and what it caps

The page at www.aad.org says: "Some patients see less sagging and fewer wrinkles after a vampire facial, but this treatment cannot make your face look the way it did years ago."

Point by point:

• Who: "some patients," which is not "most" or "all."
• What: "less sagging and fewer wrinkles."
• Limit: the treatment "cannot make your face look the way it did years ago."

Where a clinic menu can run ahead

A menu that promises to turn back time has gone past that sentence. So has a menu that says "patients" without "some." The same goes for a menu that leaves out the limit.

That title is a question, and its sentence hedges. A heading that states the answer as settled is wording that does not match.

The article to read alongside

An article hosted at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov is titled Platelet-Rich Plasma in Aesthetic Dermatology: Current Evidence and Future Directions. Its title has two halves. Check which parts it presents as current evidence and which as future directions.

Then reread the clinic's page and look for the word "some."