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Dermatoscope for at home skin checks?
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Dermatoscope for at home skin checks?

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    • March 14, 2021 at 5:23 pm
    MeganD
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      Hi all –

      I have had multiple thin primaries. Since mine have never been new lesions, and do not visibly change to my eye, but clearly must be changing on the molecular level, I’m thinking of getting a dermascope to help with my monthly skin checks.

      I do understand that it takes a significant amount of education to be an expert in reading these, yet, I have now taken enough online “courses” that I am comfortable telling what is “typical/normal” and what is not. I do not presume to be able to tell what is not “typical” yet benign or what is not “typical” and mel, but do feel this will give me another tool in the tool chest to help monitor my skin and catch these early in between my 3-month doctor skin checks.

      Q:  Does anyone have a dermatoscope that they can recommend?

      Thank you!

       

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