The most common reason for contacting a dermatologist is a nevi of different shapes and sizes. And patients are usually interested in whether it is possible to remove moles, because there is an opinion that it is better not to touch them. In fact, nevi are a pathological accumulation of pigment cells. The good news is that most of them are absolutely safe and do not cause any inconvenience.
Can I remove my birthmark at home?
Any specialist will answer the question positively.
Conditionally nevuses are divided into calm and melanoma-dangerous ones. In the first case, the risk of degeneration of the mole in skin cancer is absent, while in another situation the probability of its transformation is great. Reliably to find out the nature and propensity of the nevus to change can only a professional doctor through medical equipment. Some accumulations of skin pigment visually look quite safe, but can secretly degenerate into melanoma.
Therefore, under no circumstances can you yourself remove the birthmark or go to folk healers about it. Artisanal methods of removing nevi lead to their trauma, which is a factor that provokes the development of skin cancer. In addition, some neoplasms can only be similar to pigmented clusters, not representing moles. To determine the feasibility and the possibility of eliminating nevi is possible exclusively by a dermatologist, using modern and high-tech laser equipment.
Can I remove my birthmark on my body?
The peculiarity of the considered melanin accumulations is their appearance on any parts of the body. And if you get rid of nevi on your legs, hands, back and stomach is not too scary, then you are anxious to remove them in the area of the mammary glands and genitals.
Professionals claim that excretion of moles is safe in any area of the body. Moreover, nevuses on the breast in women are highly desirable to eliminate, on the mammary glands of such pigmented clusters should not be.
Also, people often wonder whether it is possible to remove red and hanging moles. To begin with, it is worth remembering that the first specified kind of pigmentation is not a nevus. This hemangioma, which is a cluster of damaged blood vessels, they can be not only red, but have a pinkish, pale shade. Such formations are easily derived by means of a laser. Sometimes there are also hanging hemangiomas, which are removed in a similar way.
Other convex birthmarks on the "leg" must be studied beforehand. It is possible that they are not nevuses, but have appeared against a background of a viral infection (papillomas, condylomas ) or are small warts. However, such neoplasms are quickly and painlessly eliminated.
Can I remove moles on my head with a laser?
Especially scary for patients to get rid of nevi in the face and on the scalp.
Just like in the case of the regions of the reproductive organs, there is nothing dangerous in this. It is only desirable to perform the procedure during the period of low ultraviolet activity of the sun (winter, autumn, early spring).
Often people ask whether it is possible to remove large flat moles and birthmarks. In this situation, pigmentation is not only allowed, but also necessary. According to medical statistics, about 50% of such formations on the skin cause negative consequences, many of them degenerate into cancer. Accordingly, large birthmarks and moles more than 2 cm in diameter are important to remove immediately.