IPL for the Treatment of a Facial Nevus?

Becker's nevus, named after American dermatologist Sam Becker, not the co-founder of Steely Dan Walter Becker, is a pigmented nevus ( mole) which darkens and develops hair, usually with the onset of adolescence. It is unusual to develop a Becker's nevus on the face as most such lesions occur on the shoulder, scapula ( shoulder blade) or upper chest. Like you, most patients are male (5:1) and it is felt that androgens cause these growths to become more prominent. Interestingly,... more