Is it normal for my mole removal to look the way it does?

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I had a mole removal 5 days ago, shaved and cauterised and a white /yellow layer of skin keeps forming over the top however whenever I clean it it's an open wound again? I've been applying germelene and vaseline twice a day

Matt Erdmann, MBChB, FRCS(Eng), FRCS (Plast) · Answer

You have answered your own question. You must leave the wound to heal by itself with a scab and allow this to drop off in time. What you are doing is irritating the wound, removing all the healing cells, potentially intruducing infection each time you do this and ending up with a deeper scar than if you left it alone!

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Is it normal for my mole removal to look the way it does?

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