Hair Treatments

Hair Length Restoration

Finally there is a better way to replace your hair without surgery or special treatments. We provide consultations in which we explain all of the options available to you for hair replacement. We service men and women in the Shreveport/Bossier area. We use only non-surgical, non-invasive, and drug-free technologies. Your privacy is assured and your satisfaction is guaranteed. If you do not cut your hair then you can grow it quite long, but there is an upper limit to the maximum length that you can grow your scalp hair.

We need to draw on three aspects of hair biology research to define the maximum length that scalp can grow to. There are various papers that examine the time duration for scalp hair follicles are actively producing a hair fiber. The most frequently quoted time period is 1000 days, but this figure is only a rough approximation. The time duration of anagen growth, plus knowing what length of hair fiber a scalp hair follicle can produce per day, will enable a calculation of the average maximum length that scalp hair can grow to. Perhaps to complete the calculation you may need to know the density of hair follicles on the scalp.

Research on humans suggest that active hair fiber growth production from scalp hair follicles may last anywhere from 500 to 1800 days. In normal haired individuals about 80% (min. 70%, max. 90%) of hair follicles are in a growth phase with the remaining 20% in a regression or resting phase. Hair follicle density on the scalp is 200-300/cm square, that is about 100,000 to 150,000 hairs total. The scalp hair fiber growth rate is between 0.3 to 0.35mm a day. For the most part, the studies were done with male volunteers, but a few other studies indicate similar results for women too.

If you put it all together in a calculation, the research would suggest that the maximum length scalp hair can grow to is between 20 and 60 centimeters and the sum total length of hair produced each year is about 9km! However, from the picture below you can see that some people are able to grow their hair much longer. The upper limit to scalp hair length is determined by our genes. Some people have genes for short hair, others grow hair much longer. We are exclusively dedicated to the treatment of hair loss, offering the latest in medical hair transplant and restoration procedures for both men and women.