From the outside, they looked like 4 different blackheads, packed inside the same ear. But it was just one. A dilated pore of Winer, dermatologists say, that had gone years —perhaps decades— without being emptied.
In the video, tweezers go straight into the center of the ear. With each movement, more and more hardened sebum comes out, a compact core that should not fit in there. The dermatologist works calmly, like someone who already knows what they are going to find.
What is unsettling is not what you see — it is thinking about how long it had been forming in there, without anyone noticing. 🫣