[Incidence of sincipital hair whorls in schoolchildren]

The frequency of hair whorl in the parietal area was examined in the sample of 865 schoolchildren. The simple hair whorl was more frequent in boys (62.13%) than in girls (21.41%). The double hair whorl was found only in 0.69% of the cases. The parietal hair whorl was not noticed in 58.49% of the examined children. The percentage was considerably higher in girls than in boys accounting for 77.92% and 37.13%, respectively.