Surgical Removal of NEVI
Nevi, or moles, are skin lesions that often begin to grow in childhood, or have appeared on the skin at certain point our life. Raised or flat, pigmented lesions and can appear anywhere on your body and cause potential trouble. Depending on clinical appearance and suspected behavior (bening, atypical suspicious) they can be removed by shave excision, circular punch excision, laser evaporation or surgical excision. There are pros and cons to each technique, this however will be discussed with you during consultation.
CO2 Laser Assisted Nevi Removal
CO2 Laser incisions, excisions, ablations, vaporizations and coagulations are used widely in dermatology, plastic surgery, oral surgery, general surgery, and many others. In dermatologic skin surgery, CO2 lasers can be used instead of surgical scalpel in procedures involving removal of benign and malignant moles.
From our experience with use of Surgical CO2 Laser in skin surgery, a highly focused laser cutting beam significantly decreases amount of bleeding during the procedure itself, which helps with healing and appearance of a post-excision scar*.
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Dr. Jozef Tryzno is a Fellow of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery
After your procedure, it's highly important that you do your part, in taking care of treated area to ensure favorable outcome:
- Following your post-operative instructions is extremely important in the first few weeks after your procedure
- Remember that your healing wound is going to be extremely sensitive to muscle movement. For example: if you had an excision on your calf, stay away from bicycling, running, squatting, or other strenuous activities. The sutures used after an excision are much stronger than your skin, and will tear through with too much muscle tension.
- Avoid constant irritation for a fresh scar and in later stages of healing. Please remember, it might take up to 6 months for skin heal and regenerate.
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Finally, no matter which procedure you've had, whether a laser or scalpel was used to cut through your skin, it is important to acknowledge that kids, teenagers and young adults are at very high risk of hypertrophic and keloid scarring.
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*Every patient is unique, and cosmetic results can vary between patients. No two laser treatments will get same results – even if performed by the same physician on patients with similar conditions.