Cysts, abscesses and lipomas all have one common feature: they cause a lump or bump on the skin. All three are very common and I literally remove a hundred or more lipomas and sebaceous cysts a year.

PEOPLE in pain are pulling out their own teeth with garage pliers and lancing abscesses with needles sterilised on the gas stove due to a lack of NHS dentistry, campaigners revealed today. Speaking at ...