Balding Blog
03-04-2009, 01:50 PM
Doc</p>If a layperson tries mapping out their scalp for miniaturization are they really going to be able to tell the difference from a hair in a certain stage of miniaturization and a new hair growing in? Or from a miniaturized hair getting thicker. I would think it would take a trained professional eye. Especially if someone has already started treatment.
Thanks.
If you follow the tutorials on mapping your own scalp (see BaldingForum (http://www.baldingforum.com/showthread.php?t=234)) some of this information is not difficult to get as long as you have the proper tool. Using a video microscope, you take photos of various areas of your scalp and compare those photographs a year later at the same location. Then it will be easy to see what has happened to your hair. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to do this, just a motivated victim of hair loss.
That being said — yes, I can tell much more because of the years of experience I have. I was one of the first ever to do this and it reflected my invention (U.S. Patent 5,331,472 (http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5331472.html)), which defined the process for measuring hair density and observing the appearance and thickness of the hair. I then published the same process in various articles written since 1993 (see my CV for a list (http://www.newhair.com/info/doctor-rassman-cv.asp)).
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Thanks.
If you follow the tutorials on mapping your own scalp (see BaldingForum (http://www.baldingforum.com/showthread.php?t=234)) some of this information is not difficult to get as long as you have the proper tool. Using a video microscope, you take photos of various areas of your scalp and compare those photographs a year later at the same location. Then it will be easy to see what has happened to your hair. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to do this, just a motivated victim of hair loss.
That being said — yes, I can tell much more because of the years of experience I have. I was one of the first ever to do this and it reflected my invention (U.S. Patent 5,331,472 (http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5331472.html)), which defined the process for measuring hair density and observing the appearance and thickness of the hair. I then published the same process in various articles written since 1993 (see my CV for a list (http://www.newhair.com/info/doctor-rassman-cv.asp)).
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