Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and today on the podcast, I'm so delighted to introduce

Dr. David Carly. He is going to teach us all the things we need to know about platelet-rich plasma,

how it's quantified, how we need to make it better for our patients. Welcome, David. How are you?

I'm doing great. Thank you so much, Dr. Kay. It's a pleasure to be here. And you're all the way in Colorado, right? So today in Vail, David. How are you? I'm doing great. Thank you so much, Dr. Kay. It's a pleasure to be here.

And you're all the way in Colorado, right? So today in Vail, Colorado, which is where I practice.

David is an interventional pain specialist, and how many years have you been doing it?

So I think I'm about 22 years in, and about 14 years or so working with biologics and cell therapies.

And what kind of brought your interest into using PRP in your clinical practice?

Well, it's actually a bit of a funny story. So I played basketball in college and

developed a knee problem that plagued me for years. In the very early days of PRP

and biologic therapies, I was faced with a huge surgery or give PRP a try.

And back then, it was snake oil, right?

We really didn't know a whole lot about it.

But I ended up treating my own knee because no one really knew how to do it, what to do.

And I have a great picture of myself ultrasound guiding a needle into my own knee.

That sounds crazy. It does sound crazy. But no one else knew what to do. So I had to figure it out

myself as we have with so many things in this field. And sure enough, it worked. And that really

solidified my interest in this space and a lot of research and development over the past 10, 12 years or so.

So now talk a little bit about when did biologics like PRP start becoming so popular in aesthetics.

Of course, it was sort of pioneered in orthopedics and in athletes.

But when do we start seeing it in aesthetics and what's driven the growth? Well, even before

orthopedics, there was some dental research that really spearheaded the very first applications of a

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