Okay, so you’ve been asked to take an oral antibiotic for your acne, and it’s important that you understand a couple of things about the oral antibiotics so that you can get the desired results. Now, sometimes we give these oral antibiotics in a very low dose, and those very low dose antibiotics are not functioning as an […]
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I was not aware that I was self-conscious of my chin until it started drooping. My name is Angela and today I’m getting Kybella injections. Two years ago I experienced some trauma in my life, I lost a loved one, I moved across country — the list goes on. Experiencing all that in one month’s time really took […]
Board-Certified Physician Assistant and Laser Medicine Specialist Minity Shukla
– Hello, my name is Minity Shukla. I’m a board certified physician assistant with Pinnacle Dermatology. I have been practicing medical, surgical, and cosmetic dermatology since 2003. My approach to care is providing individualized compassionate care for all my patients. I specialize in laser and cosmetic dermatology and I’m a member of American Society of Laser Medicine. I’m […]
DermTV – How to Get the Best Improvement from Antibiotics for Acne [DermTV.com Epi #395]
Hello, I’m Dr. Neal Schultz [pause] And welcome to DermTV. When topical products and treatments just don’t bring my patients’ acne under control, of the three most commonly used oral medications – antibiotics, birth control pills and Accutane – antibiotics are virtually always my go to first choice. Compared to the other two options, antibiotics have many fewer […]
DermTV – How Do Antibiotics Treat Acne [DermTV.com Epi #323]
Hello I’m Dr. Neal Schultz And welcome to DermTV. One of the more important treatments for acne with red pimples, pus pimples or cysts, is antibiotics. But acne isn’t an infection. The red pimples, pus pimples and cysts aren’t contagious… acne isn’t contagious… You can’t spread it to yourself or to other people. Well, if inflammatory acne, which […]
Acne – Oral Antibiotics in Acne Treatment
Patients are often surprised that the antibiotics that we use are really not used as antibiotics–acne is not an infection. You can’t pass on acne from one person to another. So yes, the antibiotics that we use may indeed suppress and they do reduce the bacteria called P. Acnes. It doesn’t seem to be the main part of […]
Approach to the Dermatology Exam (Stanford Medicine 25)
[Music] hi i’m dr. justin cohen clinic chief of medical dermatology at Stanford medicine today we’ll be talking about a general approach to the dermatological nation to describe skin lesions first we have to learn the language of dermatology it’s the common language that we share to describe skin lesions and this is something we call morphology which […]
Antibiotics Before Surgery – Daily Do’s of Dermatology
So here’s another daily tip from your friendly local dermatologist! So, most of the surgeries that we do in dermatology are very clean surgeries, and most of them do not require prophylaxis with antibiotics before the surgery. Now there is some debate about people who have an artificial joint or an artificial heart valve or an implanted device […]
New treatment approaches in atopic dermatitis
So another aspect of atopic dermatitis therapy is that what we’re directing our therapy towards can be changing. So the good and bad news is that there’s a broad set of targets and as practitioners, you should be aware of the different targets that people are going for. So some of them are rather specific in terms of […]
Treating Side Effects of HIV Medications at Water’s Edge Dermatology
We see plenty of patients who are HIV-infected in our clinic. Many of them are undetectable, in terms of that by every technique, you can’t detect the virus in their blood anymore, so they’re almost essentially cured. They’re perhaps not infectious. It was actually a dermatologist, two dermatologists at NYU, who first started noting the skin condition called […]