How to Get Rid of Calcium Deposits Under Eyes

hi I'm Dr rapael Darvish with skinable Dermatology and Cosmetic Laser Center here in Los Angeles California and today I'm going to be speaking with you about how to get rid of calcium deposits under eyes so today I'm joined by my patient Jamie and uh she has a small calcium deposit right here it's those little firm white dots bumps around the eyes and so step one in this procedure is going to be give Jamie some stress balls so if she has some pain she can squeeze step two I'm going to put my gloves on step three is going to be to sterilize the area I'm using alcohol today and I have an alcohol prep so I'll uh tear that and Jim you can put your head back going to alcohol this area just very very lightly okay good uh now we have the option of using anesthesia namely some lidocaine 1% uh solution underneath this F first uh but the Poke of the needle for the anesthesia is probably worse than the Poke of the needle that I'm going to use to extract this particular calcium deposit so we're not going to do um numbing using a 1% Lane solution we're going to foro that and go ahead and open up our 26 gauge half-inch needle here and we like the half inch as opposed to a full inch because just offers a little better control so uh we have Jaime's head against something firm and we'll go ahead and spread open the skin here like that and go ahead and poke it it is a little uncomfortable but really not too bad and we just kind of tear off that top skin there and Jamie how bad is your pain right now it's not too bad not too bad okay good there we go just kind of Target that skin not really going too deep and so I think we got a good piercing there of it so went ahead and put my needle back into an area where it's safe now I'm going now I'm going to I opened up my sterile uh commone extractor I have some gauze in hand and I will go ahead and put some pressure on this lesion here and kind of slowly rock it back and forth Jamie is feeling a little bit of pressure there is slight amount of bleeding but really not very much at all all right tap it with some G okay so this thing's not completely out yet we're going to just touch it again with the with the needle sometimes they be they can be stubborn but you can see it's just a firm white dot in there and when it comes out it really just slides out okay Jamie how you doing okay doc okay good and then here we go just put some pressure on it so the white part comes out and there you go it's slid out real nice you see it right there just make sure everything's out I just put a little more pressure but really it's done okay so we'll go ahead and hold some pressure on here just for a little bit for around 30 to 60 seconds and uh this lesion will be gone for good I'm Dr rapael darish and that's a brief overview of how to remove calcium deposits under the eye

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