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My son has a lump on the right side of his face just above the cheek bone. the lump comes, goes & is painful. it resembles a small abscess w/o a head?
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Needs visualization: Not a question that can be answered without visualizing the "lump." See your Dentist, may be draining abscess. See your PCP who may want to refer you on to either ENT for sinus problem or to Dermatologist for skin lesion.
Answered 2/22/2015
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Checkup: may be a sebaceous cyst-get any facial skin lesion examined.
Answered 9/28/2016
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