| Surgery is often a popular choice for wart | | | | into shock with the electricity and then removing |
| removal. Usually following home treatment and | | | | it with the spoon shaped surgeon's knife. Lately, |
| chemical applications on the warts that has failed, | | | | state of the art lasers have been used with |
| surgery remains a common choice for many who | | | | growing popularity and enviable success rates. |
| seek wart removal. The reason is simple: surgery | | | | They effectively burn off the wart by shooting |
| works. It's effective, simple surgery, usually | | | | an intense beam of light into the base or root of |
| performed in a doctor's office or outpatient | | | | the wart, severing its blood supply and killing it. |
| center, causes a minimum of pain, very little | | | | The wart is usually left to die if it is internal or it |
| scarring in the hands of a talented, skilled | | | | might be cut off after the laser treatment. |
| professional and is usually covered by insurance. | | | | Whatever treatment you choose for wart |
| There are two forms of commonly used surgical | | | | removal, you can rest assured that even if it is |
| techniques used for wart removal. | | | | new, it has been tested frequently and perfected |
| The first is a combination of electrosurgery and | | | | before it has been used on you. Go to your |
| curettage. Electrosurgery means using tools that | | | | doctor at the onset of any symptoms or |
| send a small electrical charge into the head of the | | | | irregularities you may notice in or on your body. |
| wart, effectively burning it. Curettage means | | | | Let him diagnose your problem and then discuss |
| cutting the wart off completely using a surgeon's | | | | the possible treatments. And if you elect wart |
| knife or a specially designed spoon shaped device | | | | removal, trust in medical science to have found |
| intended for this use. Most often, these two | | | | just the right way to go about it for maximum |
| procedures are used together, sending the wart | | | | success and minimum pain. |