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INTRODUCING A SAFE, PAINLESS & QUICK
TREATMENT FOR THE REMOVAL OF WARTS. IT DOESN’T EVEN BREAK
THE SKIN!
Dr Kenneth Benjamin,
founder of Laser Podiatry Associates is pleased to offer
local residents a new laser treatment for warts, so
advanced that it literally breaks up the wart beneath the
skin.
The "pulsed dye" laser uses
heat energy to destroy the wart - and the red blood cells
that feed it. The skin remains intact - which means no
blood, no scarring and minimal chance of post-operative
infection.
"This treatment is
especially efficient in removing multiple warts because it
doesn’t damage surrounding skin," says Dr Benjamin, who
installed the laser at his Mount Airy office in 2005.
"And since it kills the
virus that causes the warts, I highly recommend its use on
recalcitrant warts that cannot be removed by other
methods.
"There’s no question that
this is the single, most effective treatment of warts
currently available."
The apparatus being used by
Dr Benjamin is also used to great effect elsewhere in the
medical world – for example, by vascular surgeons in the
eradication of birthmarks in children, and by cosmetic
surgeons to reduce the appearance of scars, stretch marks
and port-wine skin stains.
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MORE
INFORMATION...
Pulsed Dye Laser Surgery
A Revolutionary Treatment for Warts
Every year 3.5 million people in the United States
are treated for verrucae, or warts. Clinical
studies have proven that laser treatment of
recalcitrant (resistant) warts is successful when
treatment with acids, cryogenics, chemical agents,
and surgical excision has failed. In one study,
over two-thirds of patients treated had their
warts successfully removed in as few as two
treatments. There is no open wound and minimal
pain following the procedure, so patients can
resume their active lifestyles immediately.
How this treatment
works
The Pulsed Dye Laser is a device that emits a
tiny, but powerful pulse of light that is absorbed
by the pigment within the red blood cells of the
wart. The light is generated when the lasing
medium-a concentrated dye-is stimulated by a
flashlamp energy source. This light is then
directed at the wart using a pencil-like hand
piece. The wart's nutritional blood flow is cut
off by the absorption of this light. The laser
also obliterates the virus at the base of the
membrane.
The Pulsed Dye Laser is the wart treatment choice
of many physicians because:
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It affords the physician the opportunity of
utilizing a different set of treatments to
attempt to reduce and/or remove your wart
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It is safe and effective
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Its unique ability to selectively treat the wart
without adversely affecting the surrounding
skin.
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It has an overall success rate of approximately
93% and treatment is also relatively painless*
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The pulsed dye laser leaves no open lesions
following treatment resulting in little chance
of post-treatment infection
Safe and Effective
Studies have shown that there are very few side
effects when the pulsed dye laser is used to treat
warts. Depending on the size and type of wart,
some conditions will respond to the very first
treatment. However, most will require additional
treatment sessions. The majority of patients are
able to return to normal daily activities almost
immediately. Many patients are even able to
participate in sports the day after treatment for
plantar verrucae. This is a tremendous improvement
in the area of plantar verrucae, where other
treatment methods such as CO2 laser vaporization
and excision often resulted in large lesions on
the sole of the foot that make walking very
painful.
*Source: Dermatologic Surgery, Volume 25 Page, May
1999
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