Quantcast This image displays scaly, dry, cracked lips due to actinic cheilitis. Lips affected by actinic cheilitis can appear scaly or crusty until treated. This image displays thick, scaly skin around the lips, typical of actinic cheilitis, due to sun damage.
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Actinic Cheilitis:
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Treatments Your Physician May Prescribe
In severe cases without evidence of malignancy, a lip shave procedure (vermilionectomy) may be performed. In less extreme cases, your physician may recommend destruction (ablation) of the damaged cells with a carbon dioxide (CO2) laser.

Alternative treatments include the use of electric current to destroy the precancerous cells (electrodesiccation) and a facial sanding technique (dermabrasion). Topical therapy with a chemotherapeutic agent (fluorouracil) or a topical immunomodulator (imiquimod) may be prescribed.

Last Modified: 29 Jan 2008

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