title: [Significance of hair root status method].
abstract: The significance of proposition of the hair root status method is reported. The percentage composition of the hair root patterns of neighboring areas of the capillitium and the behavior of the percentage of the individual hair root shapes were examined at time zero and four weeks later. These examinations were carried out in the frontal, parietal and occipital regions of each of 10 male test persons with clinically normal hair growth and statistically evaluated by means of the multi-variate Hotelling T2 test [8]. The hair root pattern of neighboring areas is the same within the different regions of the capillitium (p less than 0.05). Thus the hair root patterns investigated in the different regions of the capillitium are representative of this respective region. The hair root patterns of males with clinically normal hair growth (for the frontal, parietal and occipital region) does not differ with time (p less than 0.05). Therefore, examination of the hair root pattern at four week intervals can be used for controlling the hair growth capacity and therapeutic effects. The significance of the hair root status method for controlling therapeutic effects may be relative small in the individual case in a person with normal hair growth, but useful when evaluated in a collective of subjects.
mesh_terms: D000505:Alopecia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D006197:Hair / Q000254:growth & development*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Aussagewert der Haarwurzelstatusmethode