Can I Swim in a Public Pool or Go into a Hot Tub After Mohs Surgery? (photo)

You should be washing the area with light suds during your shower. You can get this from antibacterial soap, but even suds from shampoo should help. Often, I'll have patients use a small amount of hydrogen peroxide on the healing surgical wound itself to help remove crust. But being four days...

Skin that is adjacent to the wound has the best match of texture, color, and thickness.  Adjacent flaps can be used and/or grafts from  adjacent tissue can be used.  There are other fancy tricks such as the Canon purse string flap.  There are literally dozens of options...

Thank you for your question. Basal cell carcinomas are typically very slow growing cancers, and may not be noticed by a health care provider or the patient for months or sometimes several years. Every case decision must be made on a patient by patient basis. I would recommend having your...

A thick split thickness skin-graft contracts better than a full thickness skin graft.  The graft is sutured with a running suture biting the deep skin edge to hold the graft down on the bottom of the wound.  A small puncture is made in the graft to allow drainage.  The graft is...