This husband and wife couple are so darling, and they came in to see me from a little bit of a distance (about an hour plus drive), so that I could remove this bump on his left cheek. He’s a bit squeamish with this popping stuff, but his wife loves it. I wasn’t sure whether […]
This gentleman and his wife are long-standing patients of mine. They are a lovely couple who always come in to see me together, but he has more “skin issues” than she, as he has a lighter complexion and spent more time in the sun as a youngster. He has many blackheads and whiteheads, and milia, […]
It’s Throwback Thursday, and on this day I wanted to re-introduce one of my most favorite cyst excisions. It’s one of my favorites for a few reason… 1. He’s a really nice guy and I can’t believe he walked around with this large cyst on his upper back for so long, so it was really […]
This is the patient you have seen last week, who had a scar/mole removed from her chin, and during that visit, I treat to extract blackheads from her nose, but they were extremely stubborn. So, this time, I used forceps/ tweezers to pluck the keratin filaments which very pretty adherent to the nose, and many […]
This patient of mine came in for a total body skin check. During this examination, I noticed numerous blackheads on the back. Blackheads are open comedones, follicles/pores that have dilated and are filled with keratin/ skin cells. They can be extracted using a comedone extractor as you see here, but often when they are larger […]
This patient is the same person with the stubborn blackhead/keratin plug extractions on the nose, just recently posted. THIS is the reason that she came to see me in the first place. She has had a mole on her chin, that was treated with a laser many years ago. She doesn’t like the appearance of […]
This patient I saw yesterday for an overall body exam/ mole check. She has great skin in general, but has multiple seborrheic keratoses on her back which irritate her and are itchy. I explained to her that there are benign growths, that seem to sit a top the skin.. they are not moles, will not […]