Can my birth mark be removed?

  My advice would be to see a dermatologist or plastic surgeon with extensive experience in laser removal of this type of vascular lesion. I was associated with an excellent dermatologist who perfromed nearly magical  work with lesions such as yours.     A test spot should be... more

I agree that the laser may be an effective way to treat your birthmark. My suggestion would be, however, to do a test patch before treating the whole lesion. Often with larger lesions I'll do a small area and watch it for a month. If it works great, if not, we're not looking at much more invasive and costly... more

There are different techniques that may be able to remove your "birthmark" which appears to be vascular in origin.  There are certain lasers that may be very beneficial and there are surgical techniques to expand the skin and surgically remove the birthmark with limited scarring.  You... more