The answer is about half an inch. That's the average monthly growth rate for healthy scalp hair.
Treat that half-inch figure as a baseline, not a guarantee — growth rate shifts by body area, sex, age, and from client to client, and it tends to run fastest between the teens and thirties before slowing down. It's still the number worth knowing when a client asks how long it'll take to grow something out.
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