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What causes skin moles?
Moles occur when cells in the skin grow in a cluster instead of being spread throughout the skin. These cells are called melanocytes, and they make the pigment that gives skin its natural color. Moles might darken after exposure to the sun, during the teen years, and during pregnancy.
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The new technology known as radio-wave surgery can remove benign moles and related lesions of the head and neck with very cosmetic scars. The radio-wave technology by creating radio-waves (yes, just like your AM and FM radio) and using them to melt away the mole.
While we cannot guarantee any patient that they won’t have any scar, many times when the patient returns for an 8 week follow up, neither the patient nor the doctor remember where the mole was because the scar is so aesthetic. In the thousands of moles we have removed on the head and neck, we have yet to have a patient feel that the scar was worse than the mole.
