Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Pluck a ‘Pebble’ From the Middle of a Patient’s Forehead

In a new YouTube video, Dr. Pimple Popper removes a rock-like growth from the middle of a patient’s forehead.
Though Dr. Lee originally thought the growth was a cyst, it turns out to be a hard rock-like mass.
Dr. Lee explains that the growth is a pilomatricoma, which is a firm, mobile growth under the skin that forms in the hair follicle.

In a new YouTube video, Dr. Pimple Popper—aka dermatologist and TLC host Dr. Sandra Lee, MD—removes a rock-like growth from the middle of a patient’s forehead. And this pebble puts up a fight.

In the clip, Dr. Lee makes a small incision in the middle of the patient’s forehead and attempts to push out the growth. When it doesn’t expel gunky contents like a normal cyst, Dr. Lee goes in deeper to try to grasp the tiny calcified mass.

The famed derm uses a cauterizing tool to keep bleeding to a minimum, but struggles to free the tiny bothersome growth. Dr. Lee tries a stitch suspension method to remove the mass, but it won’t budge. After several other attempts with tweezers and curets, Dr. Lee tried the suspension technique once more—and it works. A pesky bead-like mass emerges from the patient’s forehead after a long and frustrating battle.

“It’s like a little rock,” Dr. Lee tells the patient, as she shows her the growth. “You can’t squeeze it. You can’t smush it.” In fact, the tiny growth even sounds like a rock when you bang it against something.

Dr. Lee explains that the growth is a pilomatricoma, which is a firm, mobile growth under the skin often confused with an epidermoid cyst. They are benign growths that begin in hair follicles and most commonly form on the head.