Pulsed Dye Laser: Q&A
Ask a QuestionPulsed Dye Laser for Plantar's Wart on Foot?
I Have a Huge, Bigger Than a Fifty Cent Piece Plantar Wart Foot,all conventional tx has failed. Last treatment was bleomycin. Doctors have no more options. I heard radiation works, can't fine someone in the bay area, calif. What about pulse dye laser. How effective?
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Oakland9177
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Pulsed Dye Laser for Warts
I have had both great success in select cases with pulsed dye laser for plantars warts as well as numerous minimal-responders. It has an advantage over CO2 laser because there is much less destruction and typically less healing time.
Quick reminder: Any wart that persists despite adequate treatments should be looked at and considered for biopsy to exclude other conditions including (uncommon but possible) skin cancer.
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Pulsed dye laser can work for difficult warts, but so can CO2 laser excision.
The advantage of pulsed dye laser over CO2 laser excision (vaporization) is that the pulsed dye laser still leaves the warty tissue in place. You may develop a blister, but there is generally no open wound to bandage or hurt. The pulsed dye laser works by sealing the blood vessels in the upper layers of skin, (hopefully) killing the virus-containing skin cells. Pulsed dye laser treatment is easier for both the doctor and the patient, but it works only if done properly.
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Pulse dye laser for plantar warts
Pulse dye laser is an outstanding treatment solution for resistant warts on the foot. I have used this modality with enormous success. Surgery90210
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I have treated thousands of patients with foot warts by using a pulsed dye laser.
I find that it gets rid of warts, even the most difficult cases with little or no scarring.