Small mole removal from face

[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.

A derm I went to (who was kind of condescending) told me if I had my flat ones removed, they'd likely come back. If you'd recommend your doctor, can you please share the name?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

A derm I went to (who was kind of condescending) told me if I had my flat ones removed, they'd likely come back. If you'd recommend your doctor, can you please share the name?

The doctor retired a year ago.

First, a doctor will do a biopsy test to see if cancerous. If not, will just freeze them off with liquid nitrogen. However, they will probably return in a 2 or 3 years so the procedure might need to be repeated. While inconvenient, freezing with liquid nitrogen is also inexpensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

A derm I went to (who was kind of condescending) told me if I had my flat ones removed, they'd likely come back. If you'd recommend your doctor, can you please share the name?

The doctor retired a year ago.

First, a doctor will do a biopsy test to see if cancerous. If not, will just freeze them off with liquid nitrogen. However, they will probably return in a 2 or 3 years so the procedure might need to be repeated. While inconvenient, freezing with liquid nitrogen is also inexpensive.

I have the price list from 2021. The procedure was called: "Seborrheic keratosis (simple)" $150 per lesion; "Seborrheic keratosis (electrocautery)" $200 per lesion. "Mole removal (simple)" $150 per lesion; Liquid nitrogen (destruction)" $100 per session (up to 15 lesions). Price list has 21 other procedures with highest price at $200 except for "Cosmetic Cyst Removal which was $500/$600/$700 per excision.

These prices have risen since 2021. Probably double in the high rent areas.

[Anonymous]

I had the liquid nitrogen destruction by freezing. They added tax & an office visit charge. Insurance paid all or almost all of the testing for cancer.

[Anonymous]

My skin condition was caused by too much sun exposure. And I was well over the age of 50.

[Anonymous]

Looking for someone to remove a large-ish raised facial mole. I assume that’s in the $1000+ range?

[Anonymous]

Does liquid nitrogen hurt?

[Anonymous]

Anyone else have any recs?

[Anonymous]

My teen has a mole (not brown, skin colored) on his cheek that he really doesn't like. Our derm said nothing could be done b/c it would leave scarring that would be worse than the mole. I'm surprised all of you had luck removing them. We may need to look into it again.

[Anonymous]

I went to a plastic surgeon - Craig Dufresne. Fairfax. He's removed three from my face, one tiny, one "normal" and one pretty deep one. No scars anywhere.