Frequently asked questions

Begin with Request a Consultation, or use the 15-Minute Fit Call if you are unsure whether FHI fits. FHI reviews the intake information and confirms the assessment route and booking next step.

FHI can provide a deeper review after diagnosis, and it can also be the first structured hair and scalp assessment or a monitoring layer during treatment and follow-up.

You complete the secure intake and provide the timeline, photographs, records, treatments, and main question. FHI reviews the material, conducts the remote appointment, and identifies any information or direct examination that would sharpen the assessment.

In-person assessment is useful when direct scalp examination, clinical photography, trichoscopy, inflammatory signs, breakage, scarring concerns, or a measured baseline add important information.

You will leave with a clear takeaway: what appears most important, what is being watched, what remains uncertain, and what should be prioritized next. Some cases require additional records, clinical evaluation, or follow-up to sharpen the interpretation.

FHI begins with assessment and interpretation of the case before commitment to a treatment package, product program, procedure, or transplant pathway.

Yes. With your consent, FHI can provide a practitioner-facing summary. For practitioner-referred cases, relevant findings, unresolved questions, monitoring priorities, and follow-up information are returned to the referring practitioner. Extended reporting can be scoped separately.

Yes. Pattern hair loss, shedding, inflammation, breakage, medication effects, alopecia areata, scarring processes, and systemic contributors can overlap or mimic one another. The assessment organizes what fits best, what else may be contributing, and what needs further clarification.

A biopsy samples one scalp site, while trichoscopy and clinical photography can assess a broader distribution. Findings can differ because of the sampled location, timing, treatment effects, variability across the scalp, or overlapping processes. FHI reviews how the sampled site fits the wider presentation.

Follow-up reviews new information and compares the current presentation with the baseline. The interval and markers depend on the condition, treatment timeline, rate of change, and question being followed.

FHI reviews treatment exposure, timing, photographs, scalp findings, symptoms, shedding, density, trichoscopy, and change across regions to assess whether the observed trajectory appears stable, improving, worsening, relapsing, changing form, or still too early to interpret.

Prepare a concise timeline, the areas involved, current and prior treatments with dates and response, recent and earlier photographs, relevant laboratory results and consultation notes, trichoscopy or biopsy reports where available, and the decision or question you are trying to address.