Who Are The Doctors Who Can Remove Skin Tags?

Skin tags or medically referred to as acrochordons, are harmless skin outgrowths that afflict about everyone, young and old, but more prevalently as people age. They pose no immediate or long-term health risk and often wither and fall out without bothering about them.

Some people do get more of them than others and while harmless, a skin tag on any part of your publicly exposed skin like eyelids, earlobes or necks, to mention the more common areas where they break out, can be unsightly enough to compel you to do something about it.

Skin tags can easily be removed. Most outbreaks are small enough for you or a family member to cut with a sharp pair of scissors or blade at home and just suffer the equivalent of a needle prick and stem a little bleeding like a skin break. For some people, a visit to the doctor is a no brainer and even if their health insurance won’t cover it, the cost of any surgical or a more exotic procedure to excise the outgrowth is cheap enough and well-worth the effort, especially if they have plenty of skin tags on their body.

Who Can Remove Them?

Doctors And Dermatologists

Because it is a skin aberration, a dermatologist is a natural choice to seek help when confronting a skin tag, but any general medical practitioner will do. A professional method often involves surgical excision with a scalpel or surgical pair of scissors with or without local anesthesia depending on the extent of skin tag growth. But as a patient you can insist on a local application of lidocaine or other local anesthesia if you are squeamish about suffering any level of pain.

• Cryotherpy is another option where the affected skin part is frozen with liquid nitrogen to kill it off.

• Electric cauterization to burn a skin tag can also be employed and has the least medical risk and you get no bleeding.

• Ligation is another where the blood supply to the skin tag is cut off to make it shrivel, wither and eventually fall off or scrubbed off. Under all these options outside of surgically cutting it out, the objective is to kill the skin tag and take it out painlessly.

Specialists

There are, of course, no skin tag specialists. But certain skin tags that grow in some parts of the skin in sensitive parts of the body are better treated by specialists trained to take care of that part. Medical treatment of any type is better done by specialists and while skin problems are up in the alley of dermatologists, it is still prudent to consult with a specialist who knows that part of your body more than others.

One that grows at the edge of your eyelid should be checked and treated by an ophthalmologist or EENT doctor to ensure that no harm gets to your eye in the treatment process and they are often better equipped in this area.

Some of the methods described above may not be applicable without endangering your eye. Skin tags that grow in the external vaginal area in women is another that require specialist treatment. They can be better treated by gynecologists who are experts in treating any ailment in a woman’s reproductive organs.

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