Dr. Pimple Popper removed a rubbery 3-year-old cheek cyst that looked like a bouncy ball
- Dr. Pimple Popper shared a YouTube video where she treated an epidermoid cyst, which occurs when skin cells burrow and multiply underneath the skin, on the apple of a woman's cheek.
- She created an small oval-shaped incision and used her fingers and surgical scissors to pry the cyst out of the cheek cavity.
- Dr. Pimple Popper said the cyst felt "rubbery" because much of it had become scar tissue due to the patient squeezing it a lot on her own.
Despite the busy holiday season, Dr. Pimple Popper has kept up with her deluge of acne-related videos.
On Monday, she shared a YouTube video that detailed how she treated a cheek cyst that'd been growing on a woman's face for three years.
Dr. Pimple Popper, whose real name is dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, identified the growth as an epidermoid cyst, a type of cyst that occurs when skin cells burrow and multiply underneath the skin, according to the Mayo Clinic. Usually, epidermoid cysts grow slowly and aren't painful.
To treat the cyst, Lee number the area with an injection and then made a small oval-shaped incision on the apple of the woman's cheek where the cyst was growing.
She called the cyst a "trouble maker" because it was difficult to squeeze pus out of the incision at first. To loosen the cyst from the cavity she'd made, Lee used scissors.
According to Lee, the cyst was so hard to remove because the woman had squeezed it a lot on her own, causing it to develop scar tissue that stuck to the inside of the skin.
But with more cutting and squeezing, Lee was able to pull out a small mass that resembled a rubber ball with tweezers. Dr. Pimple Popper said the outside of the growth felt "rubbery."
After she removed all of the cyst, Lee used a cauterizing pen to stop excess bleeding in the wound and stitched it up to close it. She told the patient to keep the stitches in for seven days to let the incision heal.
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