For medical education- NSFE. She came in yesterday for a skin exam and mentioned she hated these bumps she felt on her face so I offered to remove them for free if she wouldn’t mind if I videotaped it for you all. She obliged and was so happy to get rid of them. She can’t […]

A Dilated Pore of Winer, is essentially a giant blackhead. I extract this one today, and it leaves a dilated pore which will shrink to some degree, but likely won’t entirely go away. We plan to see her again in the near future, and if she doesn’t like the appearance, or if it tends to […]

For medical education- NSFE. A few milia I popped out today, then the largest Dilated Pore of Winer I’ve ever excised. source

For medical education- NSFE. A method to remove a large seborrheic keratosis on the skin is to first numb the area with local anesthetic and then use a curette to essentially scrape the growth off. source

For medical education- NSFE. Blackheads extracted on the chest and the back on one of my lovely patients. source

This is a patient I see on a regular basis for skin exams, and she had this noticeable bump on her right cheek that she says has been there for a while, and every now and then she can squeeze the contents out. This is an epidermoid cyst, a benign growth that creates a sac […]

For medical education- NSFE. This man had a cyst on his left cheek, a firm bump under the skin. A small punch can be used to remove it. Since he has squeezed the area multiple times, emptying its contents, there is not much to extract, but as long as I get the entire cyst sac, […]

For medical education- NSFE. This patient has an epidermoid cyst on the back, which has bothered her for many years, mainly because of the appearance. She was very self conscious and didn’t like people to touch her on her upper back. Here, I remove the cyst completely, attempting to remove it out a relatively small […]

For medical education- NSFE. This was not a very satisfying cyst to remove… Very dry, hard, and difficult to express. If it recurs I would remove it via punch biopsy or excision next time. source

Spotted this blackhead on my patient’s earlobe. Extracted it just for you. 😉 source