Friday, January 8, 2010

How can I convince a skin specialist that a mole I have in the face should be removed?

Let me start by saying that I live in Portugal so the health system may be different of the USA%26#039;s.





I don%26#039;t want to pay rivers of money to remove a mole so, if my skin specialist agrees that the mole have to be removed, I can remove it in the hospital for free.


How can I do it?|||If the mole is asymmetric in shape, or raised or odd-colored, it raises a concern for skin cancer, and usually a dermatologist uses a mole-removing tool to shave off a mole and send it off to a lab for testing.





If your mole appears to be normal, then at least in US it%26#039;s a cosmetic procedure based on non-medical reason and you would incur a small fee. I know someone who had moles removed from her face and one from her shoulder (the one on shoulder appeared to be abnormal, so this one was sent off to a lab). The fee was less than $100 or something after insurance.

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