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...into my face. As the laser traces tiny spider veins across my cheek, zapping them into oblivion, I hear a faint pop, pop, pop. It begins to sting. Yeow, I swear silently. Is that burning flesh I smell? Hey, Doc? Owww. Yeowww! DOC! Dr. Harold Lancer, my Beverly Hills dermatologist, is laughing. He had warned me to take some Valium before the procedure (or risk scaring off his celebrity clients, no doubt). I can't stand any more. "Ye-ooowww!!" I yell out loud. Then it's over. I leave with a red Etch A Sketch drawing on my cheek...
...worked for frogs, Dr. Norman Levine reasoned, so why wouldn't Melanotan, a synthetic form of a natural hormone called Alpha MSH, work for humans? When frogs are given a shot of the stuff, it triggers rapid pigmentation of their skin. Perhaps, the University of Arizona dermatologist thought, Melanotan might help humans develop a tan without their having to expose themselves to the damaging ultraviolet rays...
...Humbled by the first tangible evidence that the passing years do indeed have me in their grip, if only a gentle one, I am not made to feel better in dermatology. I tell Dr. Kenneth Tomecki, a dermatologist who is also in his 50s, that I am concerned about dry facial skin. He seems unfazed. "Young people are greasy, we're dry," he sums up. He checks me for moles with the potential for turning cancerous, and finds none. But he does discover a handful of tiny red dots on my torso, another sign of aging. "Hey, these things just...
SKIN SCARE Get to the dermatologist if someone in your family has had more than one melanoma. It may signal a genetic predisposition to the cancer...
...Bleeding" from the ordeal, the student finally gets the appointment with her dermatologist--who immediately refers her to a plastic surgeon because her face is now beyond repair...