Predicting hair growth for hair transplantations.
Five likely factors, namely, looseness of scalp, thickness of skull, density of transplanted hair, quality of grafts, and scarring, were found to have predictive value in foretelling eventual quantity of hair growth.
Abstract
Even with proper surgical technique and no complications, some individuals do not seem to grow transplanted hair as well as others. In order to see if it is possible to identify such individuals prior to surgery and the reasons for their peculiarity, 130 consecutively new patients were stated for study and 100 were eventually available for study with special reference to twelve likely factors. Of the twelve, five, namely, looseness of scalp, thickness of scalp, density of transplanted hair, quality of grafts, and scarring, were found to have predictive value in foretelling eventual quantity of hair growth.