Small mole removal from face

[Anonymous]

This would be a for a teen if determined it's suspicious. Assume a plastic surgeon? Any recs?

[Anonymous]

A biopsy will determine how much needs to be taken. Typically it will be a simple excision, followed by biopsy, then MOHS if any cancer is found. How likely is a teen to have skin cancer so young?

Amy Cole of dermassociates is great.

[Anonymous]

Chris Chang, hands down. He’s removed maybe 10 moles from my very moley face and body and he does exquisite work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chris Chang, hands down. He’s removed maybe 10 moles from my very moley face and body and he does exquisite work.

What does he charge?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chris Chang, hands down. He’s removed maybe 10 moles from my very moley face and body and he does exquisite work.

Thanks. He's a plastic surgeon? I see he's in Chevy Chase. Were yours raised or flat and why removed? - OP

[Anonymous]

I had this done and it was covered by insurance.

[Anonymous]

Had 4 tiny moles removed from face for cosmetic purpose. Not covered by insurance. Cost was about $300. Were frozen. All returned a few years later. Plan to redo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had 4 tiny moles removed from face for cosmetic purpose. Not covered by insurance. Cost was about $300. Were frozen. All returned a few years later. Plan to redo.

Was done with liquid nitrogen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chris Chang, hands down. He’s removed maybe 10 moles from my very moley face and body and he does exquisite work.

Thanks. He's a plastic surgeon? I see he's in Chevy Chase. Were yours raised or flat and why removed? - OP

Some cosmetic, some because they were looking weird/might go south. He has an office in McLean as well. I truly don’t recall the fee, that’s not my decision point when it comes to my face.

[Anonymous]

I just went to a dermatologist - both for the one on my neck and for the one on my forehead. Derm did just fine for both (different drs).

[Anonymous]

My teen had a cyst removed from his face by Dr. Oh at Children’s who is a pediatric plastic surgeon. I highly recommend him.

[Anonymous]

Make sure you don’t go overboard and do a big excision if it isn’t that suspicious. They can scrape and test it first before removal, so that anything suspicious but turning out OK can just be frozen off.

[Anonymous]

I’ve had a strange brown spot on my face for years. I would go to derm and be told that I had other pre-cancerous moles that then had to be excised and biopsied. But they would always tell me to go to plastic derm specialist for the face spot.

Moved and went to new derm. She took one look at face spot and air-quoted “pre-cancerous” and just froze it off with the liquid nitrogen, thereby getting it covered by insurance. And it healed beautifully with no scarring or whiteness as I had with the excised spots elsewhere.

Just pointing out that a second opinion might get you what you need without too much problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chris Chang, hands down. He’s removed maybe 10 moles from my very moley face and body and he does exquisite work.

Thanks. He's a plastic surgeon? I see he's in Chevy Chase. Were yours raised or flat and why removed? - OP

Some cosmetic, some because they were looking weird/might go south. He has an office in McLean as well. I truly don’t recall the fee, that’s not my decision point when it comes to my face.

Agree. I didn't ask about fee fyi (this is OP)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just went to a dermatologist - both for the one on my neck and for the one on my forehead. Derm did just fine for both (different drs).

He excised w stitches?