Individual results vary, and some things need more than one session.

What I remove

Skin tags, including the clusters that appear on the neck, under the arms, and where clothing rubs.

Seborrheic keratoses, the waxy, stuck-on looking brown growths that multiply with age. I’ve treated more than a hundred in a single session, with results that have held for years. If your back or chest is covered in them, you do not need a year of appointments.

Moles, where my evaluation confirms they’re benign and appropriate for cosmetic removal.

Warts.

Cherry angiomas, the small bright red dots that appear across the chest and torso.

Brown spots and age spots, including on the face and the backs of the hands.

Milia, the small firm white bumps that don’t respond to extraction.

Keloids and raised scars, flattened and softened. This is scar revision using plasma energy rather than surgery, and keloids in particular are notoriously difficult to treat without provoking more scarring.

Small tattoos, and tattoo correction. Including work within a larger piece, and including on skin tones where laser removal carries real risk.

Anywhere on your body

This is the part people are most relieved to hear, and it’s the question nobody asks out loud.

Face. Neck. Chest. Back. Under the breasts. The area under the breast is one of the most common places skin tags cluster, and it’s uncomfortable as well as unwanted.

Underarms. Another cluster site, and one where shaving makes them worse.

The torso, arms, legs, and the backs of the hands.

The genital area, where growths are extremely common, rarely discussed, and treatable.

And in the scalp, without causing hair loss. The precision of plasma means a growth can be removed from haired skin without damaging the follicles around it, which is something most removal methods can’t manage.

You don’t have to explain why something bothers you or justify wanting it gone.

Why not freezing, and why not a cheap plasma pen

Two comparisons matter here, and both are practical rather than theoretical.

Liquid nitrogen leaves marks

Cryotherapy is the most common approach and it’s imprecise by design. The cold spreads outward from where it’s applied, so it affects tissue you didn’t intend to treat.

The pigment cells are the casualty. Freezing damages melanocytes, which is why so many people are left with a permanent white spot where the growth used to be. In deeper skin tones that mark is far more visible than the original growth, which is why a great many people with darker skin are turned away from freezing or left regretting it.

It also frequently doesn’t finish the job, so growths return and need repeating.

Plasma doesn’t target pigment at all. No melanocyte damage, no white spots, and it works across every Fitzpatrick type, I through VI.

Not all plasma devices are the same

This is worth knowing before you book anywhere.

There’s a large unregulated market in cheap plasma pens, sold online and used by people with a weekend certificate. Those devices deliver energy imprecisely and at the wrong intensity, and the tell is a residual carbon crust: a black, burnt-looking scab that isn’t normal healing and frequently scars.

Properly regulated equipment, used correctly, sublimates the tissue. It converts it rather than burning it. You get a clean scab that separates naturally and skin underneath that matches.

If you’ve seen photographs that put you off plasma treatment, you have almost certainly been looking at the cheap end of that market rather than at medical equipment in a doctor’s hands.

I assess it, and I’m trained to

Every single thing gets looked at before anything is treated.

Most of what people bring me is entirely benign. Skin tags, keratoses, cherry angiomas, milia, and ordinary moles are the normal consequence of decades of living in a body.

I have the training to tell the difference, and I’ve been evaluating benign and suspicious lesions for fifteen years. That assessment happens here, at your appointment. You’re not being sent somewhere else first and you’re not being asked to have it checked before you come.

Where something is suspicious, I’ll tell you directly and arrange the biopsy with dermatology before anything cosmetic happens to it. That’s not me handing you off. It’s the reason to have this done by a medical practice rather than at a spa or with something bought online, because removing a lesion without knowing what it was destroys the one piece of evidence that mattered.

So bring me the one you’ve been ignoring. That’s the entire point of having someone qualified look at it.

One growth or a hundred

The usual experience is being told to book for one, come back for the next, and pay each time.

If you have thirty seborrheic keratoses across your back, which is entirely ordinary at sixty, that’s an unworkable plan and most people give up and live with them.

I can treat one or I can treat a hundred in the same session. How many we do at once depends on your skin, the areas involved, and how much healing you want to manage at a time, and we decide that together.

For someone who has accumulated a lot of these, that turns a years-long project into an afternoon.

What to expect

Assessment first, and it’s part of the appointment.

The treatment is quick. Ten to sixty minutes depending on how much we’re treating.

Comfort is around a two out of ten, which makes this one of the more tolerable things I do.

Healing is seven to twenty-one days, and this is the part people underestimate. The treated spot forms a small scab and it needs to separate on its own.

Picking it is the single most reliable way to cause a mark that lasts. If you’re doing this before an event, plan on at least three weeks.

Sessions. One to two for most things. Keloids, larger scars, and tattoos need a series.

Aftercare matters more here than in most treatments. Keep it clean, keep it out of the sun, and leave it alone. You’ll go home knowing exactly what to do.

Safe for all skin types, Fitzpatrick I through VI, with each case monitored individually.

Growth removal near me: why people in the East Bay come here

• No liquid nitrogen and no white spots, which is the most common regret after freezing and the reason many people with deeper skin are turned away from it.

• Medical equipment, in a doctor’s hands. No carbon crusting, which is the signature of the cheap unregulated devices.

• One growth or a hundred, same session. Not a return visit for each one.

• I assess every lesion myself, with fifteen years of doing exactly that, and I’ll tell you directly if something needs a biopsy.

• Anywhere on your body, including under the breasts, the underarms, the genital area, and in the scalp without causing hair loss.

• Keloids, scars, and small tattoos too, which most removal services don’t handle.

• Safe on every skin tone, Fitzpatrick I through VI.

• An award winning doctor with fifteen years of practice in the East Bay. I’ve been voted Best Doctor of the East Bay, and I have page after page of five star reviews that show how hard I work for my patients.

I’m in Lafayette, CA, easy to reach from Walnut Creek, Orinda, Moraga, Danville, Alamo, Pleasant Hill, Berkeley, Oakland, and the broader East Bay.‍ ‍