Preventing warts and verrucas
Cryo or Laser Surgery for Removal of Wart and Verruca Tissue
Types of Warts
Common warts (verrucae Vulgaris):
These common warts typically develop on the hand, especially around the nail. They are grey to flesh coloured, raised from the skin surface, and covered with rough, hornlike projections.
Plantar warts (verrucae Plantaris):
Plantar warts, by definition, occur on the plantar surface, or bottom, of the foot. They usually occur in high-pressure areas such as the heel and the metatarsal heads (just behind the toes). They usually grow into the skin, not outward like common warts.
Flat warts (verrucae plana):
Flat warts are most commonly seen on the face, the back of the hands, and lower legs. They usually appear as small individual bumps about 1/4 inch across.
Untreated flat warts may spread rapidly on the face and lower legs from the activities involved in shaving.
Wart Treatment options available at Chester Laser Clinic
Cryo Surgery.
Liquid nitrogen or cryotherapy is used to deep freeze the wart tissue. With liquid nitrogen applied to the wart, the water in the cells expands, thus exploding the infected tissue. The exploded cells can no longer hide the human papillomavirus from the body's immune system allowing the immune system to naturally destroy the virus particles over the course of a few weeks
Laser Therapy.
A highly targeted beam of laser light is aimed at the wart or verruca. The energy from the laser heats up the blood vessels feeding the problem area, which collapse in on themselves as a result and stop the blood supply. This starves the wart or verruca of nutrients so it naturally falls off after a few weeks. The treatment is performed with a Pulsed Dye laser which can treat warts with remarkable safety and efficacy. Laser treatment is particularly effective for those stubborn cases that may have been resistant to previous treatments.