Surgical therapy? Surgical therapy is a more thorough way to eradicate moles. It removes the mole and its surrounding tissue, and then sutures the wound. The healing period is different for different parts. For example, the face takes 5 to 7 days, and the arms take about 10 days. Generally speaking, sutures can be removed 1 to 2 weeks after surgery, but it will take another 2 to 3 months for scars to fade.

Laser therapy

Laser therapy is simple, fast, leaves no scars, and is suitable for treatment of sensitive areas such as the face. Choose the power of the laser according to the thickness of the mole, aim the beam at the mole, and the lesions will become necrotic, scabbed, and peeled off. When removing a small mole, there is only a local burning sensation. When removing a larger mole, a small amount of local anesthetic can be injected under the mole first, and then the mole is removed. But laser treatment cannot eradicate melanoma cells.

Chemical cautery

To treat moles with liquid medicine, trichloroacetic acid is most commonly used in hospitals, but the effect is slow. Moles that grow in deeper layers may be cauterized more than 10 times. The advantage is that it is not easy to burn the skin and leave scars; however, some barber shops and street shops use some alkaline agents, which are very corrosive to the skin, and the depth of corrosion is difficult to control. Often, due to improper operation, leaving behind Deep scars are really not worth the gain.

How to choose a treatment method?

Laser treatment is not “one-size-fits-all”

Although laser treatment is a more convenient and fast way to remove moles, it does not damage the surrounding skin and leaves no scars, but There are still some groups of people who are not suitable for laser mole removal therapy. ?Rapid enlargement of pigmented nevus, color change, surrounding redness, frequent bleeding, etc.? Irregular edges or uneven pigmentation? When the diameter of the nevus exceeds 6 mm, it is not easy to distinguish between early in situ melanoma and some moles. If used The method of removing moles can easily cause melanoma to metastasize and spread into metastatic melanoma. If you use the method of cutting the mole, although it cannot guarantee a cure, the possibility of spreading will be greatly reduced. After the mole is removed, a pathological examination must be carried out to determine whether the mole is benign or malignant, and appropriate medicine can be prescribed promptly to prevent misdiagnosis. Dark spots and moles cannot be ignored. If they are not treated, they will be gone. To treat them, they must be thorough.

No matter which method is chosen based on the external manifestations of the mole, the doctor must first make a diagnosis and then formulate a treatment plan based on the patient's opinions. It is very dangerous to remove moles indiscriminately. If a long-standing black nevus with a smooth and hairless surface suddenly grows rapidly in a short period of time, becomes papular-like, becomes darker, appears as a satellite nevus, has scabs on the surface, or even has inflammatory symptoms such as bleeding, ulceration, and redness, then It is an important sign that the mole has become malignant. At this time, the cut mole should be sent for pathological examination and biopsy, rather than simply removed. For example, cells after laser treatment cannot be further tested, so there is no way to know whether the melanocytic nevus is malignant melanocytic cancer.

If it is really cancer, the remaining melanocyte cancer cells will continue to spread in the future and may even be life-threatening!