To study your hair follicles
Mikrokamera
To study your hair follicles in detail, we use a micro camera.
We compare the area of the neck – where you don’t normally have any hair loss – with how it looks on the scalp.
We then get a kind of before and after picture of your hair loss. For example, if your neck grows three hair follicles in each graft(hair follicle group), while your head grows only one hair follicle per graft, we can see how your hair loss is behaving.
The microcamera helps us understand what hair growth looked like before hair loss began.
Not all hair loss is obvious enough to be seen with the naked eye. We also can’t see how thick or pigmented the hairs are. A microcamera is like a small microscope we connect to the computer screen. When used to examine hair, every detail becomes clear.
We have different lenses for the micro camera, each of which magnifies differently; 50, 100 or 200 times. The lens we use depends on what we want to look for.
We may want to specialise a hair follicle that we suspect is malformed – this requires high magnification. Likewise if we want to see how the hair roots are curved. However, if we just want to get an overview, the 50 lenses are preferable.