This woman came in accompanied by her physician husband, who has a practice in Southern California as well. She was recommended to see me by her son, who is in medical school and happened upon my videos on youtube. She has three pilar cysts, with two pretty large ones. She was SO kind to allow […]

This is a lovely patient of mine who travelled from a little distance to see me. She knew I did segments for The Doctors TV show, but this was before DrPimplePopper got big. She had a couple big bumps on her scalp, which are pilar cysts. Pilar cysts tend to occur in families, and many […]

PIlar cysts are benign growths most commonly seen on the scalp. They are a little different than epidermoid cysts which are more often found on the body. Pilar cysts usually have thicker walls, so they are more easily popped out whole. As you can see, Dr Rebish and I have different methods for removing cysts, […]

For medical education- NSFE. She is so sweet to let us film the removal of her pilar cysts. She has a few of them, and this one is the biggest. They are benign, but they are bumpy and can be embarrassing. They are fun to remove because they are a challenge to pop out whole […]

For medical education- NSFE. Had to just squeeze this cyst out because it was so superficial, but it’s important to remove the entire sac so that it won’t grow back. source