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. Those of you who like blackhead extractions may also like this procedure, because there is a feeling of completeness and accomplishment after doing sclerotherapy (sclero for short), which is the treatment of spider veins. Sclero is the gold standard, the best treatment for spider veins esp on the lower extremities. Blood […]
For medical education- NSFE. Some lucky days I find patients with comedones that are extremely impressive (I love those days!). Other days, I just get mediocre comedones. Today was one of those latter days. Do you want me to post everything I record, like today? I feel like you do. It’s like gambling or fishing, […]
For medical education- NSFE. Favre-Racouchot is a skin condition that causes comedones (blackheads) especially around the eyes. In this case the comedones are due to extensive sun exposure and sun damage. Here we are extracting them using a comedone extractor source
For medical education- NSFE. She let me extract her blackheads in exchange for firing as many questions at me that she could. Haha. Sometimes patients just want to talk, and she’s a sweetie, but she’s a talker! 😉 source
For medical education- NSFE. She had a pretty big keloid on her left earlobe, and 5 months ago, she travelled from another state to see me! We treated the area that day with cryoshape, which essentially destroys the keloid with frostbite… by freezing the keloid from the inside out. It took a while for the […]