Co2 Treatment For Warts

This treatment if required will usually be carried out at the sk n epsom branch as that is where the special laser for this treatment lumenis ultrapulse co2 is located.

Co2 treatment for warts.

This light is as effective as a sharp knife. The laser was used as a scalpel to cut the skin in a circular fashion around the wart and then the base of the wart was vaporized. Doctors generally start with the least painful methods especially when treating young children. Co2 laser with continuous mode focused and defocused was used.

In fractional co2 laser treatment co2 laser beam fractionates or pixellates into the thousands of tiny little shafts of light. Co2 laser treatment or fractional lasers surpass at treating the deep wrinkles blotchiness of skin acne scars traumatic facial scars warts or moles etc. Multiple viral warts of 13 patients with immunosuppression a majority of them renal allograft recipients were treated with co 2 laser in local or regional anesthesia. All the patients were visited 1 week and 3.

Co 2 laser ablation is a recommend treatment option for warts that present as refractory thick and extensive lesions. Lasers have become a common and effective treatment. Co 2 laser in immunosuppressed patients. Unlike some other treatments laser therapy requires local anesthesia and can sometimes be accompanied by side effects such as pruritus surrounding the scar.

Even with treatment warts tend to recur or spread. Laser treatment works by removing the outer layer of the skin. In case of recurrences the lesions were treated again after. In our cases only one session was enough for clearance of the warts.

The goals of treatment are to destroy the wart stimulate an immune system response to fight the virus or both. A procedure known as co2 laser cautery is performed under local anesthesia either in your podiatrist s office surgical setting or an outpatient surgery facility. Treatment may take weeks or months. Self treatment is generally not advisable.

It might be a good choice if your warts are around your fingernails or toenails and other treatments haven t worked.