Question: Last Friday, I found the this mole ) on my back totally by accident. Obviously it's in a place I cant see so I have no idea if it's always been there or recently popped up. No itching, no bleeding, but it is raised some. It looks bigger than it is because of how close the photo is. It's only 2, maybe 3 mm across. I have other moles over my body, but most if not all others are not raised. Anyway, went to the see Dermatology Monday. He looked at it and thinks it's a dysplastic nevus. He removed it and sent it off to be biopsied. I asked him again did he feel confident it was not melanoma, and he said yes and not to lose sleep over it and that we see many of these. Few questions: 1. I think he used a dermascope to take a really close look. I know the biopsy is ultimately what matters, but would the dermascope give him the confidence to think it wasn't anything bad? 2. Does everything taken off the body get sent in for a biopsy? 3. What would give it the mole that grayish, scaly appearance on top?