What to Use for Removing Black Spots on Face? Doctor Answers, Tips
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What to Use for Removing Black Spots on Face?

I have dark spots on my face that go around I have like a beard from both ears to the chin and forehead. I used peeling creams, and at first it seemed like it was working, but now nothing is happening. What can I use to get rid of this? Please help!

3 Doctor Answers | Asked by La china in Miami
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Melasma

I am in concordance with Dr. Aldea that you most likely have a condition called melasma. Most cases of melasma can be tied in to female hormonal production since melasma either begins or worsens with pregnancy or with the taking of birth control pill. In pregnancy it is dubbed chloasma ( though I could never figure this one out melas is Greek for black, makes sense, but chloa is derived from the Greek word to turn green.. I've never seen green on a woman's face, pregnant or not, ... more
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Removing black spots on face?

La China, It APPEARS you have a condition called MELASMA. It is caused by many factors including female hormone fluctuations. The good news is that it is very treatable - the bad news is that the treatment has to go on for months-years and could be expensive. In the long term it would be FAR cheaper to seek out a good Dermatologist where you live and do what he/she tells you to do THAN repeatedly buying and trying the tens and hundreds of utterly USELESS of lotions in the back of women's... more
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Dark spots on the face

I can't tell from you photo what is going on here but would recommend that you find one of many excellent dermatologists in Miami who is used to working with pigmented skin and ask rhem.  Here's where you need a real expert even if they are more expensive. 
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