What are birthmarks or nevi

Birthmarks or nevi - is the wrong sections of tissue, they are on the skin almost all people. In the nevus under a microscope, you can see a large number of cells containing pigment granules - melanosomes, the number of which increases with sunburn. Cells containing melanosomes are called melanocytes. In the melanocytes nevi are found varying degrees of maturity - from fully matured to immature.

Nevi may be placed on the skin and mucous membranes and have a very different structure. By building the following types of nevi: border, complex, intradermal, epithelioid, clear cell, galonevusy giant pigmented birthmarks, fibrotic papules nose, blue nevi. But most of all we are dealing with the most common type of nevi - border birthmark Birthmarks and hemangiomas - the face aggressive treatment? . Such nevi located on the face, neck and torso in the form of a small (less than 1 cm in diameter), flat, slightly raised above the skin (or does not rise at all) the smooth formation of brown.

Border nevi are not so harmless, if they are permanently injured or irradiated under the sun for a long time, they can develop into cancer - melanoma. Melanoma is one of the most dangerous skin tumors as quickly metastasizes Metastasis - danger everywhere   (distant lesions) to distant organs, spreading through the blood and lymph. Sometimes nevi degenerate into melanoma when hormonal changes, for example, in adolescence or during pregnancy. Often such degeneration occurs for unknown reasons. Therefore, the state of moles should be observed: if the mole has increased in size and acquired a darker color, it is an occasion for seeking medical attention. Sometimes a mole starts to itch, it appears on a small bleeding ulcers - it is also an unfavorable sign.

Operation removing nevus

Moles can be removed only by surgery done in the hospital, followed by a mandatory laboratory examination of the removed tissue. Independently remove even very small birthmark is strictly prohibited because of their propensity to malignancy (degeneration into malignant tumor). If during the laboratory testing in remote tissues moles detected cancer cells Malignant tumor: cells are mad Then further examination and treatment should be carried out only in the cancer clinic. It is not necessary to be afraid of: timely access to a specialized agency in most cases leads to recovery. You need to be afraid of advanced disease.

How is surgery to remove the nevus

Since moles are different in structure and footprint, then remove them in different ways, however it solves only a doctor. There are several most common ways to remove moles Removal of moles - a deadly process? :

• conventional surgical method with a scalpel - Today, this method is rarely used and only when removing large moles (more than 2-3 cm in diameter); with a very large mole removal is achieved in stages;
• using cold (cryotherapy); This operation is carried out using liquid nitrogen, and only when removing small nevi; operation is quite traumatic, as the traumatized surrounding tissue;
• by electrocoagulation - before this method was very widespread, but today for the removal of moles, there more advanced equipment, method is also traumatic and is used to remove only a small moles;
• removing with a laser; effective method to remove moles can be up to 2 cm in diameter, while avoiding bleeding because the laser immediately "solders" small flasks;
• Remove using a special radiofrequency apparatus "Surgitron" - the most modern technique that does not cause bleeding and leaves behind a virtually invisible scars.

The recovery period after surgery

After the operation carried out by any method, place the fabric is treated with a solution of manganese, and are left open. In place of the nevus is a crust (its size depends on the mode of operation, least of all such a crust after removing nevus radio wave method), which can not be wet for 4-5 days. In addition, you can not avoid contact with any cosmetic crust. Eliminates the crust alone, it can not be removed - this will slow tissue repair. Once the crust will disappear, the skin under it for a while has a pink color and increased vulnerability, so it must be protected from the sun (close clothing or apply a barrier cream), wind, dust, as long as the color of the skin in the area of ​​the operation can not be compared the color of the rest of the skin.

Galina Romanenko

What is plastic Asian Century

Most often, eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) is done in the case when the skin is stretched century, while the upper eyelid hangs over the eyes and prevents a person to see, and at the bottom are formed "sacks". This operation is carried out, usually after 40 years.

In contrast, the plastic makes the Asian century, usually at a young age: the European section of the eye is considered to be more beautiful and fashionable. In addition, for people of Asian nationalities living in European countries, after such an operation opening up new career prospects.

Plastic surgery is called the Asian century Singapore and represents the upper eyelid blepharoplasty considering structural features of the Asian type face.

The different structure of the Asian century of the European

Asian eyelids have the following structural features:

• narrow shape of the eyes due to the fact that the upper eyelid is located lower than that of Europeans;
• fold in the upper eyelid smoothed;
• upper eyelids thicker and massive because of the fact that they accumulate higher amount of body fat;
• Asian eyes characteristic epicanthus - fold at the inner corner of the eye formed by the skin of the upper eyelid and covering the lacrimal tubercle; it is also called "Mongolian fold";
• a characteristic feature of the Asian century are also short straight, or drooping eyelids.

Despite these structural features of the century, Asian eyes can be very beautiful even from the point of view of Europeans. But in this case, when the characteristics are not expressed very much.

Contraindication for surgery are:

• any acute illness;
• exacerbation of chronic diseases;
• diabetes Diabetes - threatening and incurable disease   immunocompromised Immunity - types and characteristics in children in adults ;
• diseases, which are accompanied by bleeding disorders;
• any disease of the conjunctiva and eyelids.