SKIN CANCER TREAMENT INCLUDING MELANOMA, BASAL CELL, AND SQUAMOUS CELL Skin cancer can be a life threating and sometimes disfiguring problem. Facial skins cancers are especially problematic because the face defines the person. When skin cancer occurs on the face, especially the ears, nose, or eyelids, normal tissue needs to be spared. In the 1930’s Dr. Frederic Mohs developed a technique in…
ACNE SCAR REVISION Acne scarring can be a disfiguring problem. Unfortunately acne is not limited to puberty and can occur at anytime in life, especially around pregnancy for women. Fortunately, there are cosmetic surgery treatments which can improve unsightly scars resulting from acne. The severity of the scarring will dictate the procedures available for improvement and will dictate the amount…
TORN EARLOBE OR SPLIT EARLOBE REPAIR Torn earlobes can occur due to trauma or after wearing heavy earrings for an extended period of time. Earlobes can then be completely torn or the area of the piercing can just be widened. If this occurs, a simple office based procedure can be used to repair the tear. Depending on the severity of the tear, sometimes the piercing…
FACIAL SCAR TREATMENT | ACNE REVISION | PLANO FACIAL PLASTIC SURGEON When the skin is in the process of recovering from an injury, whether the result of an accident, surgery, a burn, or acne, scarring will occur wherever multiple layers of the skin have been affected. Once a scar forms, it is permanent but may be made less visible or…