Is there any affordable way to count your hairs?

[sphlanx2006]

Like the things they use at clinical trials. Could i go to an experienced dermatologic clinic and have my hairs or at least my general hair density counted? And/or my hair diameter lenght? I would do that even if it costed like 100$ for just one visit.

 

[Bryan]

I've heard of a special test device which is supposed to be able to take fairly accurate haircounts of a person's scalp. It's probably pretty expensive, though, since it's obviously designed to be used by doctors during clinical trials for hairloss drugs.

Bryan

 

[The Gardener]

Why would one want to do this anyways, I don't think it would prove anything?

Hair shedding is a wildly fluctuating phenomenon that can be triggered by all manner of causes. Nobody sheds hairs at a constant rate. It would take daily observation over the course of years to come to any definitive conclusions.

It's not about how much hair you shed... even non-male pattern baldness people shed hair and go through aggressive sheds. The difference is that with non-male pattern baldness people, the hair grows back in its same thickness wheras with male pattern baldness people, in their male pattern baldness areas, it grows back more thin.

 

[Bryan]

I don't think he's talking about shed hairs, he's talking about hairs still in his scalp. He wants to be able to do haircounts on himself, which is what I understood him to mean.

Bryan

 

[Apoc]

As far as I know doctors don't count hairs on the entire scalp or large portion of it but rather on a square inch or centimeter of scalp. Then if you do this on different places you can get a very good estimate how much hair you've got left.

 

[sphlanx2006]

I wanted to know if any of you are aware of any derm clinics offering this "hair count" as a payed service. For example, you go there and they tell you that atm you have X hairs on your head. I guess something like that would interest hair transplant patients to see if they got what they paid for. I would like to use it just as an accurate way to see if i get any regrowth and/or maintainance, since there are days that i think i have grown tons of new hair and others that look like i am still at baseline.