Today was my last day at Southern Dermatology with Dr. Boyse and her two nurses. We had a full schedule with the morning consisting of skin checks, freezing off warts, and other general dermatology. But one of the most exciting cases was using the profractional laser machine (shown below). Basically what this machine does is laser tiny holes to produce collagen and new skin on your face. The machine can be set to different strengths and depths in your skin, so if you really wanted to you could laser off all of the skin on your face and produce new skin. The first time is was used today was to help get rid of a very large pre-cancerous spot. The second time was later in the afternoon (where Dr. Boyse does more cosmetic procedures) where a lady got her whole face done (only on 11% thought) to help reduce aging. It was super cool to see how the laser made tin little holes without any needles. It was also interesting to see Dr. Boyse do it, since the laser only covers a small box area at the time so she had to line it up correctly all over the face to make sure all the areas of skin where covered. Also in the afternoon she did some Botox and some fillers such as lip fillers. This was a great week with Dr. Boyse, seeing both general and cosmetic dermatology and also seeing mohs and excision procedures with Dr. Chalgren!!