General Dermatology in Dubai

Two different specialities are often booked under the same word. Medical dermatology diagnoses and treats disease of the skin, hair and nails — eczema, psoriasis, rosacea, acne, fungal and bacterial infection, hair loss, a mole that has started to change. Aesthetic work starts from skin that is already healthy and changes how it looks.

The order matters more than most patients are told. Inflamed or infected skin is not a surface to work on cosmetically, and a course of peels booked while rosacea is active usually leaves the redness worse than it started. At ELEMENTAL both sides sit in the same building, so the sequence is decided at one appointment rather than discovered halfway through: what has to be treated first, what can run alongside it, and what waits.

This page covers the medical side. Aesthetic procedures are described under aesthetic dermatology and injectable cosmetology.

Rosacea and persistent facial redness. Flushing, visible vessels and inflammatory papules on the central face, usually mistaken for sensitive skin or adult acne for years before it is named. See rosacea treatment.

Seborrhoeic dermatitis. Scaling and itch on the scalp, eyebrows, sides of the nose and chest — a condition that is controlled rather than cured, and returns when treatment stops. See seborrhoea treatment.

Hair loss. Diffuse thinning, patchy loss and receding density have different causes and different treatments, and the first step is establishing which pattern you have rather than starting a treatment. See alopecia treatment.

Moles, warts, skin tags and keratoses. Assessment first, removal second, and never in the other order. See mole, wart and skin tag removal.

Children’s skin. Atopic eczema, nappy rash, viral rashes, molluscum, birthmarks. See paediatric dermatology.

Acne, eczema, psoriasis, fungal and bacterial infections, nail disease, itch without a rash. These start at a dermatologist consultation, because the treatment depends entirely on which of them it actually is.

The history comes first and it decides most of the diagnosis: how long the problem has been there, what makes it better or worse, what has already been tried and in what dose, what else you are treated for and what you take. Skin disease is frequently the visible part of something systemic, and a treatment that ignores that fails quietly.

Then examination under proper light, of the affected area and of the skin generally — not only the patch you came about. Where a lesion needs magnified assessment, dermoscopy is used: a hand-held magnifier with polarised light that shows pigment and vessel patterns invisible to the naked eye, and separates the harmless from the ones that need a closer look.

Where the diagnosis is not settled by looking, tests follow: a swab for infection, a scraping for fungus, blood work where hair loss or itch suggests a cause elsewhere, or a biopsy with histology. You leave with a plan you can read — what to apply, how often, for how long, and what should have changed by the review.

Dubai residents accumulate ultraviolet exposure year-round, and the honest position on moles is that most are harmless and none of them can be sorted into harmless and not by looking casually at them in a mirror. What matters is change: a lesion that grows, changes shape or colour, develops an irregular edge, bleeds, itches or simply looks different from your others.

A mole check is an examination of the skin with dermoscopy and a record of what was seen, so that next year’s appointment compares against something rather than against memory. Where a lesion needs to come off, it is removed here — ELEMENTAL is a licensed day surgical centre, so removal, closure and, where indicated, histology happen in one place instead of being referred on.

Whether a particular lesion is removed by cryotherapy, by electrosurgery or by excision with histology is a clinical decision made at the appointment, not a choice from a menu. A lesion is assessed before it is removed, whatever the reason for removing it.

Children’s skin is thinner, absorbs topical medication faster and reacts differently, which is why potency and duration are prescribed by weight and site rather than by the adult rule. The commonest reason a childhood eczema does not settle is not the wrong cream but the right cream used in the wrong amount, and that conversation takes longer than the prescription.

Appointments cover atopic eczema, nappy rash, viral rashes, molluscum, warts, birthmarks and the question parents actually arrive with, which is usually whether this is contagious and whether school is possible tomorrow. See paediatric dermatology.

A dermatology consultation at ELEMENTAL starts from AED 600. The fee depends on the DHA grade of the doctor you book with: as of August 2026, AED 600 with a general practitioner, AED 680 with a specialist and AED 750 with a consultant. The figure is confirmed when you book, before you arrive.

The consultation covers the history, the examination, dermoscopy where it is indicated, the diagnosis and the written plan. Procedures, laboratory tests and histology are quoted separately and only after they have been explained and agreed — nothing is added to your visit without being discussed first.

ELEMENTAL Day Surgical Center is in Jumeirah 1, Dubai, at 113 Jumeirah Street, under DHA licence 5323888. Book a dermatologist consultation to start.