Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Unclog a Massive Dilated Pore of Winer Near a Patient's Eye
• In a short, silent video, Dr. Pimple Popper uses her hands to squeeze out something resembling a wad of chewing gum near an elderly patient’s eye.
• The condition is a dilated pore of Winer, a single large blackhead caused by the clogging of a hair follicle and the amassment of skin debris until the pore expands.
• Dilated pores are more common among middle-aged and older patients.
Every medical researcher yearns to leave a legacy behind—and that of Louis H. Winer, a dermatologist born in 1903 in the small, snowy town of Superior, Wisconsin, is the dilated pore of Winer. In 1954, Winer first described a large, solitary open comedo—a hair follicle glutted by rogue keratin—that had gathered up so much mass the pore expanded.
And a dilated pore of Winer—basically, a supersized blackhead—is what makes an appearance in a new video from Dr. Pimple Popper, aka dermatologist and TLC host Dr. Sandra Lee, MD. In the short, silent clip, Dr. Lee uses her fingers to push out a mass the size and consistency of a spat-out wad of chewing gum that had settled next to the eye of an elderly patient.
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Dilated pores of Winer develop more often in middle-aged and older individuals. Opinions differ on whether or not the skin condition is a unique one or an epidermal inclusion cyst with some extra inflammation and complications due to its place squarely in a hair follicle.
This may go without saying, but they can also be gnarly. Past Dr. Pimple Popper videos have shown Lee extracting a hard rock-like mass from a patient’s back and squeezing an orange seed-like chunk of dark crud from an ear. Both were dilated pores of Winer.
Now, the spirit of Dr. Winer is honored every time Dr. Pimple Popper's viewers wince at the deflation of a single mass clogging up a mutilated pore.
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