I played with a microscope and here what I found

[waynakyo]

Digital microscopes are cheap these days. So I got me one since i am thinking about hair transplant.
But I found yellow dots in the thinning area. And apparently there is a recent study on that:

Yellow dots in trichoscopy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5674712/​

I wonder whether the causation goes from hair thinning => engulfed sebaceous glands (as the paper seems to be suggesting) or it is the other way.
I attached a picture of the healthy donor area (no dots) and two of the thinning area. I need to shave the latter for better view.

 

[waynakyo]

Moderator: You can delete this post. For some reason I am unable to attach pictures on this forum.

 

[Will Be an Egg in 5 years]

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Upload it at imgut and then paste the link here

 

[Will Be an Egg in 5 years]

It's interesting, for sure. I don't have a microscope but I can achieve amazing zoom with a camera I have here. No redness, no yellow area, no dandruff. Just pale scalp where my hair is thinning or the folicles are empty. Maybe it's just low bloodflow in the area.

 

[waynakyo]

Here is my density per 0.2cm^2 in the healthy donor area (not yellow dots there). Just multiply by 5 to get FU/cm2. I am on the low end I think. From 60 (lowest) to 100. But the 100 is right below my safe zone.