Wart Removal
Sheffield

Warts manifest as rough-textured developments on the skin's surface, long deemed as unsightly in appearance. Essentially, warts are the result of superfluous skin layer buildup, forming coarse, bumpy regions.

These skin alterations are primarily attributed to the human papillomavirus (HPV), though warts themselves aren't deemed a significant hazard to one's health and may not require intervention.Nonetheless, warts can adversely affect an individual's confidence, particularly when they emerge in less concealable areas such as the hands, fingers, or arms.

They can be a source of discomfort in everyday activities, snagging on fabrics and accessories, causing both annoyance and discomfort. Although they predominantly surface on the hands, feet, and face, warts are versatile in their appearance and can develop anywhere on the body, exhibiting a wide variety of types. For instance, warts found on the feet, commonly referred to as Verrucas, stem from the same HPV responsible for warts.

Verrucas are particularly prone to spreading in moist environments like showers and pool sides, facilitating their transmission in such conditions. Both warts and verrucas can spread between persons or to different areas of the same individual's body through direct contact, indicating their contagious nature.

 Warts are relatively prevalent, affecting roughly 10% of the population at some juncture in their lives, frequently occurring during the childhood or teenage years. Apart from acquiring them in warm, moist communal settings, direct skin contact is another means of transmission for both warts and verrucas.In appearance, warts can greatly vary; some are minor protrusions atop the skin while others can expand significantly, measuring several centimeters in diameter. Certain warts may cause inconvenience by catching on clothing or personal items such as watches and jewelry. Despite the array of wart types, eradication is typically straightforward, with multiple effective removal options available.

Cryotherapy is a therapeutic procedure that leverages extremely cold temperatures for treatment. This technique is primarily employed to get rid of warts and other skin abnormalities, such as skin tags, by literally freezing them from the skin surface. While there are multiple techniques to apply cryotherapy, the most prevalent approach incorporates the use of liquid nitrogen.

 Liquid nitrogen, at very cold temperatures, transitions from its typical gaseous form to a liquid state. Its temperature at this state is incredibly low, approximately −196 °C or −320 °F. As a gas, nitrogen constitutes over 75% of our atmosphere. When it encounters extremely cold conditions, it becomes liquid nitrogen and requires unique containment and transport means in specially designed storage flasks.

Cryotherapy employs deeply cold temperatures for the selective treatment of various skin issues by essentially 'freezing off' warts, skin tags, and other lesions. It is mainly utilized for benign skin conditions, facilitating the eradication of viral warts, actinic keratoses (sun-damaged skin), and other minor skin lesions. Moreover, cryotherapy is applied to certain skin conditions related to skin cancers, such as Bowen's disease, superficial basal cell carcinoma, and some types of non-melanoma skin cancers.

A Cryotherapy treatment, or procedure, takes place during a set appointment time. No clinical admission is required and the patient can be treated during a consultation. No specialist preparation is necessary and the consultation and treatment can be undertaken by a clinician or a nurse.

Your clinician will prescribe you a course of cryotherapy after care. This will most likely be a non-medical process and will require you to take care of the treated area by keeping it dry until a scab forms. You may be advised to apply a moisturiser, in the form of petroleum jelly. If a scab becomes wet, it should be patted dry gently with a soft tissue. Please do not rub or be abrasive with the area of treatment.

These are unusual-looking warts that appear on the neck and face, especially around the eyelids, neck and lips. They resemble a tree-like branch or twig. Narrow and skin-coloured, they can grow quickly and relentlessly. They can be hugely embarrassing to the person involved as they are often in such a noticeable part of the body. Filiform warts can also spread quickly and will get worse without treatment. However, filiform warts also respond well to treatment and can be removed in one procedure.

Seborrheic warts are not caused by the HPV virus. Rather, they are a low-level, thick build-up of epidermal cells that have a rough surface. They can range in colour, from skin colour to black and can vary widely in size and surface area. Commonly associated with the aging process, seborrheic warts as also known as senile warts. Most commonly found on the face, they can also form on the torso and can form on clumps or join colour. Left untreated, they become more integrated into the skin, as they penetrate the skin more deeply through fibrous tendrils. Treatment can be very effective and the skin recovers well. As with blood spots and age spots, we recommend swift treatment of Seborrheic warts.

Plane wart removal is very straightforward and sees the removal of small, slightly raised warts. Most usually found on the face and the back of the hands, plane warts are skin or brown coloured warts and are most common in children and adolescents.

Cauliflower-like in appearance, common warts are raised, rough growths which are most often found on the backs of hands, fingers, toes and on knees. They may have a set of black dots, called seeds. Seeds are viral clotted blood vessels which can be responsible for the spreading of warts by touch. Children, young adults and those with a weakened immune system are more prone to common warts. Often disappearing of their own accord, People prefer to have them removed for cosmetic reasons or to improve their self-esteem. Common wart removal may require more than one treatment.

Periungual warts grown under or around the nail. While forming, they are tiny raised bumps that cannot be seen, but patients can soon notice rough-looking bumps with irregular edges. Periungual warts can appear in groups and can generate varying degrees of pressure on the nail. Untreated, they can become painful or grow large enough to make the nail come away from the nail bed. Although uncommon, periungual warts should be treated to prevent permanent nail damage or scarring. More than one treatment might be required to remove a perifungal wart. Although this is uncommon, it can happen, and is likely to cause permanent nail damage and scarring. More than one treatment session may be required.

At Sheffield Wart Removal, we will spend time talking with you before the procedure and a trained, qualified nurse will examine the mole. Moles can appear anywhere on the skin but are most frequently found on the arms, face and neck.

Your nurse will check your mole and look for even, brown pigmentation and a regular outline. Facial moles tend to be lighter in colour and less heavily pigmented. They may have hairs and are most often benign.

If your nurse feels for any reason that your mole requires further examination, we will use our state-of-the-art skin scanner to examine your mole in greater detail. Following your mole examination, we will then discuss the most appropriate method of removal, making sure that you are comfortable with the treatment before proceeding.

If your nurse identifies a clinical need for further investigation into your mole, it can be excised and sent for clinical analysis.

Please feel free to speak to our Sheffield Wart Removal Team, where we are happy to help with any questions or queries you have.

Mole removal treatment requires little healing. While the skin’s surface may be slightly elevated or lower than the skin’s surface, this does even out in time. You may find that moles regain some of their pre-treatment pigmentation, but this is a rare occurrence. We do ask that patients use SP30 sunblock after treatment.

We take mole health very seriously. Happily, most moles are harmless and they are removed purely for cosmetic reasons and to increase self-esteem. Other moles may get in the way of everyday life or sporting and leisure activities.