Blemishes
 

Common blemish removal methods include lasers, electrocautery or cryotherapy. Pigment lasers are used to treat pigmented blemishes whereas vascular lasers are useful for red blemishes. For non-colored or raised blemishes, carbon dioxide lasers or electrocautery can be used to ablate the lesions.

Blemishes respond differently to treatment according to their type. For example seborrhoeic keratoses can in most cases be removed in one treatment session by a carbon dioxide laser, and rarely recur; whereas syringomas are well-known to re-appear after any type of treatment.

Common benign blemishes

Corticosteroid injections gently smooth the skin surface, reducing raised scars.

Pulsed Dye Laser treatments reduce the redness.

  • Brown blemishes
    • Sun-spots (lentigo simplex)
    • Freckles (lengtigines)
    • Moles
  • Red blemishes
    • Acne marks
    • Broken veins (telengiectasias)
    • Angiomas ("blood blisters")
  • Non-colored / raised blemishes
    • Seborrhoeic keratoses
    • Plane warts
    • Syringoma
    • Sebaceous hyperplasia
    • Milia
  • Others
    • Scars

Common Blemished

Common skin blemishes - Syringoma
Common skin blemishes - Syringoma
Common skin blemishes - Lentigo simplex (sun-spot / liver spot)
Common skin blemishes - Lentigo simplex (sun-spot / liver spot)
Common skin blemishes - Telangiectasia on nose
Common skin blemishes - Telangiectasia on nose
Common skin blemishes - Plane warts
Common skin blemishes - Plane warts
Common skin blemishes - Angioma
Common skin blemishes - Angioma
Common skin blemishes - Seborrhoeic keratoses
Common skin blemishes - Seborrhoeic keratoses
Common skin blemishes - Sebaceous hyperplasia
Common skin blemishes - Sebaceous hyperplasia