Four days ago I had a mole removed from my face. I am doing the right thing and covering the wound with vaseline and band aids. The mole used to have black hairs growing out of it, and they are still growing through the wound. Should I pluck these hairs out as the skin heals? Or should I just let the skin heal before plucking? If I do it now will it stop hairs growing through the scar once it's healed? Or could it make the scar worse? The area is still very tender, so plucking seems very painful!
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Although removing larger moles by any method from the face is likely to leave a small scar, scalpel sculpting, which involves no deep cutting or stitches has, in my experience, proven quite successful for achieving gratifying aesthetic results while leaving little, or often barely...
Indented scars and hypertrophic scars can both be caused from mole removal. In my practice, I perform subcision and laser resurfacing for these types of scars from previous mole removals by others. Raffy Karamanoukian, Los Angeles
Hi, elliptical incision can result in dog ears, in your case its to early to know starting with what you described that it wasnt like that at the day of the surgery. its a small incision. just when the stitches go out star massaging the area and use some scar ointments. if they persist probably...
