Has anyone had a facial mole removed?

[Thetoasterhasbroken]

I have had two raised, fleshy moles on my face since forever. I have always detested them and even more so since my daughter started calling them my witches moles, when she was little. I have been so conscious of them since.
I know I won’t get them removed via the NHS so will need to look into this privately.
Has anyone had a mole removed purely for aesthetic reasons?
How was it? Did it leave a scar? Was it super expensive and were you glad you had it done?

I went to have a suspicious one on my back removed on the NHS and mentioned to the nurse that I hated the ones on my face. She offered to shave them all and cauterise them! Had 10 done at once. 16 years later they are small white indents that you would never notice.

Annoyingly, the one above my lip had hairs growing out of it and the hairs sometimes grow back!!

my GP referred me without question
plastic surgeon
nhs
20 years ago

@gonnaketchamall and @Thetoasterhasbroken I literally googled mole removal and the city I live in but then I chose a specialist private clinic that only does small procedures like mole removal, upper eyelid surgery, keloid scar treatment etc. They had a lot of videos of the procedures so you could see exactly what would happen plus many before and after photos etc. I wanted a person who does this day in, day out.

My mole on my face was near to my eye socket and near to my nose. It had grown a little and was now catching on my sunglasses and occasionally I caught it with clothing and it had bled a little. Unfortunately for me once they started removing it there was a difference of texture underneath and I actually had a Basal Cell Carcinoma so they had to take a small chunk out of my face. I will be honest and tell you it looked like I had had a cigarette put out on my face. The cream/ointment they gave me, their brilliant post care advice means now I have a tiny white scar that you cannot really see at all.

Mine cost £350 for the laser removal of one mole, it is an additional £100 per mole after that.

Yes I had two on my face that were removed. You have to look really carefully to see the scar. I hated them, although I was scared of the operation, it wasn't traumatic at all and I look much better now! Shortly afterwards I had to have a medical and the GP who did it had an interest in plastic surgery and was impressed at how well it had been done. I had it done at Derriford hospital in Plymouth.

You can say they are growing (my parents told the GP mine were) and the NHS may then do the op for free (this was back in the mid 90s though).

But I don't think it costs a great deal to have them removed privately for cosmetic reasons. My son has a couple on his face and we investigated having them taken off a few years ago but he was 16 at the time and they wouldn't do it until he was 18. Then covid happened and he hasn't mentioned them since.

If you look at your local private hospitals you can see what they offer, and maybe ask around in local Facebook groups for surgeons who are recommended. Sometimes it's an easy job and they can shave them off.

I have NHS as concerns that it was changing shape , 1 stitch no scar at all

I had one frozen off on the NHS about 25 years ago. It was really painful afterwards for a while. Then it grew back within a few years and I decided it wasn't worth going through that again.

I had a mole removed by shave excision last week from my face which looked very similar to your picture. It was very prominent and obvious so I had wanted it removed for a very long time but had been afraid of the scarring.

I went to a specialist clinic to have a couple of cysts removed from my head and the surgeon said that he could remove the mole as well, so I decided to go ahead. I actually had a second mole removed from the back of my neck as the same time.

For me, the worst part was the local anaesthetic being injected. The removal of mole on the back of my neck barely left a scratch and already I can barely tell where it was removed. The one on my face, I currently have a healing wound, the first couple of days it bleed a little/leaked a little fluid, but is now beginning to heal. I’m hopeful that I will be left with a minimal scar and the surgeon was confident that would be the case.

Cost wise, I think the removal of the 2 moles was around £500 - 600, but as I had some cysts removed at the same time it was all in the total price I paid.

Oh, and just to add I had no pain from either of the mole removal sites after the local anaesthetic wore off.