It might be a good choice if your warts are around your fingernails or toenails and other treatments haven t worked.
Co2 treatment for warts.
Co 2 laser ablation is a recommend treatment option for warts that present as refractory thick and extensive lesions.
In fractional co2 laser treatment co2 laser beam fractionates or pixellates into the thousands of tiny little shafts of light.
In this study 40 patients with a total of 54 recalcitrant warts were treated with carbon dioxide lasers as previous treatments had proved ineffective.
Co2 laser with continuous mode focused and defocused was used.
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.
Laser treatment works by removing the outer layer of the skin.
All the patients were visited 1 week and 3.
In our cases only one session was enough for clearance of the warts.
This light is as effective as a sharp knife.
Doctors generally start with the least painful methods especially when treating young children.
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.
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.
Modalities while the other had received no previous 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.
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.
Self treatment is generally not advisable.
Treatment may take weeks or months.
Co2 laser treatment or fractional lasers surpass at treating the deep wrinkles blotchiness of skin acne scars traumatic facial scars warts or moles etc.
In case of recurrences the lesions were treated again after.
Lasers have become a common and effective treatment.