Skin Check
Before your appointment at Skin Logics Hamilton
Important things to consider
- Please arrive 15 min prior to your appointment to complete the paperwork.
- Please wear comfortable clothing as a full body mole check will require you to change In to a clinic gown
- Please DO NOT wear any make up
- Please DO NOT wear any nail polish on the day of examination. If you are wearing old nail polish, then take it off before appointment.
- Please DO NOT dye your hair as your scalp needs to be examined and some time the dye can be on the skin of your scalp.
- Please AVOID wearing ant Jewelry on the day of examination.
- Please do a self-examination and point out any moles or spots that concern you the most.
- You will be asked about your family history of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers- please check with your immediate family about it as it will change your risk profile.
How do we conduct Medical Skin Checks?
Firstly, your skin is examined with colour corrected and direct, focused lighting. Next, we use Full HD video dermatoscopes to perform scanning examination of your skin and individual moles at 50x magnification on a high definition LED screen. We use Mole Max HD technology for skin examination. Where required, any lesions are further examined with high resolution Digital Dermoscopy at a minimal 16 megapixels and further magnified up to 300x.
Where lesions or moles are located at locations such as ear folds, nose, eyelids, fingers and toes, they are examined with non-polarised German dermatoscopes and ultrasound gel. Digital Dermoscopy is then further performed on these lesions.
This takes more time, equipment, and many more steps than a traditional Skin Check examination.
Our strong belief is that we must use the most appropriate equipment for different parts of the body, in order to provide the best service to our patients. Therefore, we have included the above steps in all our skin check consultations without additional costs to our patients.
A brief summary of steps:
- Skin examination under specialised lighting.
- Video Dermoscopy on Full HD mode at 50 x magnification for flat body surface areas.
- Digital Dermoscopy at minimal 16 megapixels resolution and up to 300x magnification.
- Contact Dermoscopy with Ultrasound gel, plus Digital Dermoscopy if required.