I came to DermCare to have two large and two small cysts removed from my face. I expected scars. Dr. Kuohung said, no, she would use a different way of removing them. When she finished I saw blood on my face. After I was cleaned up, I was sent home with two bandaids. Next morning I removed the bandaids -- no cysts -- no blood. I washed my face and started my day. Unbelievable! Next visit Dr. Kuohung asked if I had a full body check. I said no. She said, "You will now!" Luckily she found nothing. She and the girls in the office are great. PS. Scar on my nose -- 60 years old -- is also gone!
Typically, in order to ensure that a mole is completely removed from the face, a physician definitely needs to remove it by coring it out and closing the wound -- no matter how small -- with a suture. If the spot is 100% a mole, then you need to confirm that you've removed every cell because otherwise the mole could grow back. Some physicians laser moles, but that only removes the color from the mole, and if the mole later becomes cancerous, it becomes impossible to track without the color. Shaving the mole off the face can also leave a scar as well as run the risk of having the mole grow back.
The only 100% sure way of confirming that a mole is benign is by biopsying it and examining it under the microscope. My policy is that I always biopsy a mole if a patient feels that it is problematic, because the patient knows their skin and their moles best.
