This lovely patient’s lipoma came in with dreams of being a unicorn… we took out the horn but left the dreams. My BOOK, Put Your Best Face Forward, is on sale …
I had to be careful that this epidermoid cyst didn’t get in my patient’s mouth, don’t want him eating cyst!! An epidermoid cyst is a non-cancerous growth …
A blackhead is also called an open comedo (single for comedone), and it is a clogged pore in the skin that is open to the air. Keratin (skin protein) and sebum (oil) combine to block the pore….