What Should I Do with Hair Growing from Mole Removal Wound?

Thank you for your question. I would wait until the area is healed. I would recommend looking into doing laser hair removal and consulting a Board Certified Dermatologist or Plastic Surgeon for safest and best treatment option. I hope this helps.

I would recommend that you do not pluck the hairs until the wound is completely healed.  Plucking them now may result in more irritation to the area which could impair the healing process.  Follow the wound care instructions given to you by your physician, so you can achieve the best outcome possible.

It may be prudent to allow the hairs to grow.  Plucking them may further cause ingrown hairs and inflammation. Raffy Karamanoukian, Los Angeles

I recommend that you don't pluck these hairs, as doing so may cause additional inflammation and add to any scarring that results from the procedure. It sounds as though you've had a shave removal of the mole, which will help to flatten the mole that was there but will not remove all the hairs from the area.

Allow time for your skin to heal over the wound, and after that you can resume plucking the hairs. In the meantime keep the wound moist with vaseline, and you can use bandaids over the top if you wish (bandaids help keep the vaseline from getting on clothes and fingers). If you wish to have the hairs removed permanently in the future you have the option of laser hair removal or of surgical excision of the mole.

Good luck!

first let the wound heal...and at this point the band aid is more likely to cause problems, so ought to get rid of it...if the hairs persist after healing, there's always laser hair removal...if the area is still dark (suggesting part of the mole still remains) then you can have the whole area removed and sutured...this would get to the "root" of the problem and eradicate both the mole and the hair...

Since you are still seeing the same dark hairs that used to be growing within the mole, I'm guessing that you must have had a "shave excision" of your mole. With a shave excision the mole is actually "shaved off" at a level just below the surface of the skin. If the hair roots are deeper than the level of skin that was removed, the hair will grow back after the procedure. You should not pluck these hairs until the area has completely healed. The only way to ensure that the hair will not regrow is to do a full thickness skin excision with suture closure using both dissolving and non-dissolving sutures to give the best cosmetic result. This can still be done if the remaining dark hair continues to bother you.