What is Cryotherapy
CryoPen is an innovative, high-performance cryosurgery tool to safely remove unsightly skin tags, warts, age spots and other benign skin lesions.
The CryoPen ® allows professionals to work with with pinpoint accuracy working with millimetre precision for removing all benign skin lesions (including plantar warts) with no more collateral damage to healthy tissue.
Benefits to the patient
- Versatile treatment options, treats verruca from 1mm to 10mm in size
- Fast treatments, treats a 2mm verruca in 10 seconds
- Safely treats verruca on feet
- Pinpoint accuracy, treats just the verruca and not healthy surrounding tissue, no follow up care needed
- Minimal discomfort to patient
- Doesn’t touch skin (no messy buds, cones or apertures)
- Enhanced accuracy
What to expect from the treatment
During the treatment, a mild white frost should form evenly over the lesion. Following an initial freeze, the tissue should be allowed to thaw for about 30 seconds followed by a second freeze.
After thawing, the tissue turns red-ish coloured and has the aspect of a zone of inflammation due to interstitial bleeding. Verucas are typically removed 14 days following treatment.
Aggressive Plantar’s or mosaic warts may require a follow-up treatment after the initial procedure.
It is advised to do 3 sessions, each a week apart. The area should then be given 2 weeks to heal and hopefully clear up. If the area has not fully cleared, another 3 sessions may be required to see a result.
Pre Treatment Advice: Viral lesions are the hardest to treat because you are treating the lesion as well as the virus. In the days leading up to the appointment, your practitioner may recommend to do a pre-treatment to the wart or verrucae to prepare it for the best possible treatment.