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Pyoderma Gangrenosum Causes, Treatments, & Misdiagnosis: What You Should Know About This Rare Skin Disease

A non-healing wound can be devastating. The pain is intense, and the wound is gaping, not to mention, it’s interfering with your life. You can’t work and interact like normal. The pain, appearance, and care of the ulcer is just too much. Maybe you’ve sought treatment — but it’s just not working. And when an ulcer isn’t responding to therapy, it may be time to explore the possibility of a less common cause of your non-healing ulceration — ...

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What is Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia? 6 Things You Should Know About The Hair Loss Disorder FFA

If you are losing your eyebrows, sideburns, or front hairline, you may be dealing with more than just an age-dependent hair loss. You could be facing a dermatological condition called frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA). Never heard of it? Neither had dermatologists 25 years ago. Many doctors today still mistakenly assume people are facing patterned baldness when they see frontotemporal hair loss, but recent studies are granting us more insight into what ...

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Considering Mohs Surgery on Your Face? 6 Important Facts About Facial Reconstruction After Mohs Surgery

If you’re considering Mohs surgery on your face, effectively treating your skin cancer is the main concern. However, you likely also have cosmetic concerns. While our primary goal as Mohs surgeons is to eliminate the cancer entirely, we also take reconstruction very seriously for the best aesthetic and functional results. We want to you to be cancer-free and develop a reconstructive approach that works best for you. If you’re considering Mohs surge...

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Why Mohs Surgery Is the Standard of Care for Skin Cancer Treatment

Mohs micrographic surgery is the standard of care for skin cancer removals. It was first developed to treat non-melanoma skin cancers but is now used to remove many types of skin cancer. Many surgeons are even using Mohs surgery for melanoma. It’s highly effective, tissue-sparing, and offers a quick recovery with excellent cosmetic results. If you (or someone you care about) is considering Mohs surgery, here’s what you need to know about how it wor...

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What You Need to Know to Prevent and Treat Basal Cell Carcinoma

Most people are unfamiliar with the different types of skin cancer. We may confuse basal, squamous, and melanoma thinking of them as variations of the same disease — but they’re not. In dermatology, we’re constantly asked questions like, “Will this basal cell turn into melanoma?” As far as skin cancers go, basal cell carcinoma and melanoma are polar opposites. Whether you’re dealing with a recent skin cancer diagnosis for yourself...

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What Is Squamous Cell Carcinoma? The Prevention and Treatment Guide

Squamous cell carcinoma is the second most common skin cancer. Think of it as the middle child of skin cancers — it’s not the same as basal cell carcinoma (the most common), and it’s not as unpredictable as melanoma (the third most common). In fact, a lot of people gloss over it altogether. But squamous cell carcinoma is nothing to ignore. In fact, the more you know about it, the better your chances of preventing and treating it. ...

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What You Need to Know About Melanoma: A Comprehensive Guide

What do you think of when you hear about melanoma?For most people, assumptions about melanoma are bleak, to say the least. As the third most common skin cancer, melanoma can be scary for the layperson because of the grim prognosis it often carries. Melanoma accounts for about 1% of all skin cancers but causes the majority of skin cancer deaths. And the rates of melanoma are rising. Depending on ethnicity, the lifetime risk of getting melanoma is as hi...

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How to Keep Your Skin Looking Young Without Significant Downtime

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What are your limitations for recovering from cosmetic procedures? Do you work? Do you have a special event coming? Is there any reason in the near future you wouldn’t want someone to see you if you had a black eye? Yes, when you’re looking for how to keep your skin looking young, you can come across a lot of options that require significant recovery time. After all, most of us don’t want to face the world with a swollen face or black eye. But ...

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What to Do If You Develop a Skin Sensitivity to A Skincare Product

Skin sensitivity can be downright misleading. Skin allergies don’t always happen the first time you use a product, they don’t happen right away, and they don’t disappear as soon as you quit. If you think your skin could be reacting to a product, it will take some investigating. Signs of a Skin Product Allergy Has your skin recently become itchy, red, or bumpy? Maybe you’ve applied a product to treat the symptoms, it seems to impro...

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The Top 5 Misconceptions About Skincare

It seems like everyone is a skincare expert. We have so much information at our fingertips, so many options, and so many opinions to consider as we think about our skincare. Unfortunately, much of that advice is fueled by someone’s efforts to sell you a specific line or brand. How should you deal with it all? Simple…don’t. When it comes to skincare, trust your dermatologist. They’re the real experts. It’s their job to stay ...

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