Abstract: The method for isolating an area of hair-bearing skin and measuring a combined cross section of hair in the area comprising the steps of: preparing a pre-measured site on the scalp; isolating a standardized bundle of uncut hair at the site; compressing the bundle of hair with a measurable load while simultaneously measuring the height of the bundle of hair with a piston and cylinder device. One embodiment of the device comprises a body having a slot for receiving a bundle of hair, an anvil positioned adjacent said slot, and a mechanism for causing relative movement between the body having the slot and the anvil thereby to compress a bundle of uncut hair received in the slot against the anvil.

Abstract: The skin tension set includes an anchor member having a body portion and a plurality of suture guides along its sidewalls and bottom coupled by a single suture loop to the anchor is a winder. The winder has a body portion with suture guides at the bottom not unlike the anchor portion. In addition, however, the winder includes a central reel with suture anchoring guides, a ratchet at one end, and a drive preferably with the form of a detachable knurled knob at the other. According to the method of the present invention, the wound is sutured with preferably a monofilament suture by passing the suture through one suture guide in the winder reel and then through and out the bottom of the winder bottom across the wound, through the skin on the opposite side of the wound, looped through the anchor and similarly back to the winder and knotted.