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 […]

This patient has a filiform verruca on his right lower lip, aka a wart. “Filiform” just describes the shape, since it’s long and thin, projecting from the surface of the skin A wart is caused by a virus, so they can be easy to remove (sometimes not so easy), but they can reoccur. This is […]

For medical education- NSFE. These are comedones and milia. Both are benign growths that occur on the face. In older individuals, comedones (blackheads and whiteheads) are caused by years of sun exposure. All the above growths can be expressed with a comedone extractor. The gentleman, whose small comedones I extract on the neck has deep […]

For medical education- NSFE. I love this couple! They are so sweet and cute together! Notice how his solar comedones are much worse on the left side of his face— this is because he gets more sun exposure on the left side, as many of us do in the US and other countries where the […]

For medical education- NSFE. 1. Small and numerous milia on younger patients are best treated with electrocautery at a very low setting.. this cauterizes the superficial surface of the skin, so that the milia is exposed and will pop out over the next couple of days. Can also be used to “pop” pustules, and shrink […]

This lovely woman is a patient of mine who gets non melanoma skin cancers, likely due to the cumulative sun exposure she has had through her life. She loves to garden and play golf.. both hobbies that expose you to a lot of sun! She had three skin cancers to remove on her face.. not […]

This woman came with her daughter for cosmetic treatments, but I noticed some small blackheads on the left side of her lip. When I pointed them out to her she stretched the skin of her left lip to show me she had some pretty big milia on the left side of her lip that she […]

This patient had a few small firm bumps on the right side of her neck that have really been bothering her, so she requested removal. I thought the first one was just a picker’s nodule, also called a prurigo nodular, which is essentially a bump that is thickened and firm because it is manipulated often […]

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Milia are formed when keratin (a substance produced by the skin) becomes entrapped beneath the outer layer of the skin, forming a tiny cyst. Its pearly appearance is unmistakable, which distinguishes them from simple whiteheads or closed comedones. Primary or secondary milia in an adult may disappear on their own, but if not, your electrologist […]