It’s a bit alarming how wrong dermatologists can be. It was just lucky that DS pointed out a mole to dermatologist who thought it was probably nothing. It WAS a melanoma, and he has a huge scar on his back to prove it. Scary that he had a melanoma so young, but he was always a very fair baby, and, in spite of my efforts, got a lot of sun exposure. 
Some melanomas have no color. Have every suspicious area looked at and advocate for yourself / spouse if the dermatologist doesn’t initially want to investigate.
Blue eyes and freckles here, and Mohs on each side of my nose now. I saw my nieces/nephews right after the last surgery but before the dermabrasion that reduced the scarring, and was able to lecture them on sunscreen. It’s annoying and inconvenient to have the surgery, but having it right on my nose twice felt like adding insult to injury.
I had a biopsy come back this week that showed basal cell skin cancer. It’s on the side of my nose near the tip. Moh’s surgery is scheduled but I am worried about how it will look. I called the office and asked if I would need a plastic surgeon and was told that my doctor never needed a plastic surgeon on a nose, he would stitch it up just fine. Should I believe this?
You’ll have to wait and see. If you don’t like the result, you can see a plastic surgeon later on.
My dermatologist did a year of a plastic surgery residency. He is quite good. He doesn’t like the result on my nose, but my glasses hide it well and no one ever notices. The surgery under my eye, has healed well and can’t be seen.
Agree with VeryHappy, if you don’t like it, see a plastic surgeon.
I would make sure your doctor has done thousands of MOHs surgery and not just attended a weekend training seminar or something. The experience is worth more than the actual specialty sometimes.
My MOHs surgeon (dermatologist) told me up front that if she felt the area needed a graft, she would send me directly to the plastic surgeon. After the procedure, she felt that the area was too large to stitch with a good result and to large to granulate naturally without a graft. Since it was MLK Day, the plastic surgeons were off, but she called his personal cell phone and had me seen the next day. Given where it was on my nose (the rounded exterior of my nostril), he decided it needed a cartilage graft as well as skin to keep the “rounded” look, rather than being completely flat. I chose this MOHs surgeon because she works closely with a couple of plastic surgeons and she doesn’t hesitate to send her patients from her office to theirs. I have to say, my plastic surgeon’s work is great - looking at me head on, no one can even tell what was done and the graft scar is up in my hairline. Great results all around.
I have a quick question about the skin grafts. I had my surgery on Thursday and had a graft done. It looked like a white patch until yesterday, when it began to fill in with a red/pink color. Today it’s all filled in. Does this mean it’s healing?