Our Medical Skin Checks
Skin Check Services
Based on experience of treating over 100,000 West Australians, and using the best technology and equipment available, our doctors have devised a comprehensive skin check program which is designed to detect very early skin cancers.
How Do We Examine Your Skin?
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 40 inch high definition LED screen. Where required, any lesions are further examined with high resolution Digital Dermoscopy and further magnified up to 300x. A mole 0.5 cm wide is effectively magnified to 1.5 metre wide!
Where lesions or moles are located at locations such as ear folds, nose, eyelids, fingers and toes, they are examined with non-touching polarised light dermatoscopes or with non-polarised 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.
Summary of Our Steps
1. Skin examination under specialised lighting.
2. Video Dermoscopy on Full HD mode at 50 x magnification for flat body surface areas.
3. Digital Dermoscopy at minimal 16 megapixels resolution and up to 300x magnification.
4. Non-touching polarised light Dermscopy or Contact Dermoscopy with ultrasound gel, plus Digital Dermoscopy if required.
2. Video Dermoscopy on Full HD mode at 50 x magnification for flat body surface areas.
3. Digital Dermoscopy at minimal 16 megapixels resolution and up to 300x magnification.
4. Non-touching polarised light Dermscopy or Contact Dermoscopy with ultrasound gel, plus Digital Dermoscopy if required.
Full Body Skin Check
- Comprehensive skin examination from head to toe. (Please note that areas beneath undergarments are examined at your request and consent)
- Detailed mole and skin examination.
- Skin checks performed by fully qualified experienced doctors.
- All doctors trained in our dermoscopy micro-diagnosis system.
- Identification and treatment of multiple precancerous sun spots with cryotherapy/freezing.
- Biopsy of suspicious lesions for specialist histopathological examination if required.
- Each appointment is approximately 20 minutes.
Spot Check
- Detailed examination of 1-2 spots.
- Skin checks performed by fully qualified experienced doctors.
- All doctors trained in our dermoscopy micro-diagnosis system.
- Includes treatment of suitable precancerous sun spots with cryotherapy/freezing.
- Biopsy of suspicious lesions for specialist histopathological examination if required.
- Each appointment is under 10 minutes.
Before Your Appointment