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A member asked:
How do skin doctors remove moles on your skin?
6 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Surgery: Your doctor can remove your moles safely in his/her office under local anesthesia. No problem!
Answered 3/27/2014
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Removal-Plastic Surg: Mole or other lesions are precisely marked by your plastic surgeon, local anesthetic is infiltrated and then the lesions are excised and the wounds closed in such a fashion that the resultant scar is as small as possible.
Answered 4/29/2018
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Excise: Or cut them out.
Answered 3/28/2014
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