Profesional Treatment

If you are undergoing a wart removal for the first time, you may want to think about visiting a professional healthcare worker. Many individuals feel more comfortable undergoing their first removal when it is done by a professional.

Despite having your warts removed by a professional, there are a number of important factors that you should take into consideration. One of those factors is the type of doctor you plan on using. If you have a primary healthcare physician, a doctor that you see on a regular basis, you may be able to have your wart or warts removed by that doctor. Although a large number of primary care physicians do remove warts, there are some who do not. If your doctor does not perform any wart removal procedures, they will likely refer you to someone else who does. That person may be a dermatologist; a professional skin doctor.

If none of the OTC, home remedies or hypnosis techniques work in eliminating your warts, there are some surgical procedures that your doctor could perform to remove your warts.

Cryosurgery
Freezing the wart off with liquid nitrogen. This freezes the wart and destroys the infected tissue, requires multiple visits and scarring is common. Very painful – the doctor may inject Lidocaine to numb the area.
Electrocautery
Using a high-frequency electric current applied to the wart,but this treatment quite painful.
Lasers
May leave scars, does not destroy the viral root and the warts may return.
Surgical excision
Cutting the wart off. Lidocaine is injected to numb the area. Scarring is common.
Cantharidin Treatments
This chemical that comes from “blister beetles” is diluted and applied to the wart; a bandage is secured over the wart and can be removed in 24 hours. If the cantharidin is mixed with other chemicals, the bandage can be removed in 2 hours. Not immediately painful, but extremely painful 3 to 8 hours after application. The wart will blister. You must then revisit your doctor in order for him/her to remove the dead skin. If it is not completely removed, your doctor may repeat the procedure. This has varying degrees of success. (Beware: Cantharidin is as toxic as the most extreme poisons like strychnine. Only 10 mg ingested is fatal.)
Miquimod
A drug most commonly used in treating genital warts. May be prescribed for plantar or flat warts. Is applied to the wart every one - three days. The cream triggers the immune system response against the wart-causing virus. This may cause redness of the skin around the wart.
Bleomycin-(an anticancer drug)
Cimetidine (antihistamine)
Tretinoin (vitamin A derivative used in some acne preparations) – all could be injected in small amounts directly into a hard-to-remove wart.