I was analyzing her skin, getting ready to start a Medical Dermopigmentation, when she told me what she was actually afraid of. Not the treatment. Not the recovery. She was trying to get pregnant, and she ran her own business, and she didn't know how to keep the business growing while making room for the family she was hoping to start. She isn't the only one who's asked me some version of that question. Some come from my own field, women building something similar to what I built. Others come...

She wasn’t pointing to one spot. Her hand moved from her shin to her forearm, then toward her chest — the way people do when there are too many to point to individually. Small enough that each one seemed insignificant on its own. Together, they had changed the way she saw her own skin. Sometimes the story is simpler. A corner of a coffee table, years ago, hardly worth mentioning at the time. By dinner she’d nearly forgotten about it — until, months later, the mark was still there. No line, no...

Scar color equalization after Mohs surgery. Iwama Clinics · Boca Raton, FL · Results may vary. A woman sat across from me not long ago, asking about her skin. She had a mark on her face, left behind by Mohs surgery — the kind of precise surgery that removes skin cancer layer by layer until nothing but healthy tissue remains. The surgery had done exactly what it needed to do. What it left behind was a mark that never quite matched the skin around it. She told me she had tried every concealer...