Plantar Wart Removal: Why You Need a Specialist Clinic to Prevent Recurrence

Plantar warts, foot warts,

and toe warts

should be treated at a specialist wart-removal clinic

to prevent recurrence.

A male patient in his 40s who had visited a dermatology clinic once a week for an entire year for plantar wart treatment, but experienced persistent recurrence, came to our specialist wart clinic for care.

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He had been visiting a dermatology clinic regularly — once a week for a year — receiving cryotherapy for his plantar warts. However, due to continued recurrence, he decided to switch to a specialist plantar wart removal clinic and came to our clinic.

Accurate diagnosis for plantar wart treatment can be achieved through ultrasound examination.

On ultrasound examination of the plantar wart, a lesion including vascular pulsation was observed, confirming the diagnosis of a wart without the need for a biopsy.

When performing plantar wart removal surgery, careful management of the vascular area is important.

For plantar wart removal surgery, our clinic performs the procedure under local anesthesia.

Because many patients with plantar warts experience severe pain, and because many people have an aversion to or fear of anesthetic injections, we do not inject anesthetic directly into the affected area on the sole of the foot.

The anesthetic injection is administered on the top of the foot (dorsum), so the anesthetic agent is delivered away from the affected site, minimizing pain during the injection as much as possible.

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Those who have undergone wart treatment before will understand — the trauma from cryotherapy and injection treatments can be so significant that even mild stimulation causes tears from the pain. We make every effort to minimize discomfort.

During plantar wart removal surgery,

the surface of the skin over the plantar wart is trimmed so that the boundary between the wart tissue and normal skin can be clearly identified.

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Accurately identifying the boundary between the wart and normal skin is essential to preventing persistent recurrence and to preserving as much healthy tissue as possible.

Using electrocautery during wart removal, the vascular supply to the wart — confirmed by ultrasound — is blocked, and curettage of the tissue surrounding the plantar wart is performed.

After plantar wart removal surgery, sutures are placed for hemostasis. Clean closure is performed to minimize post-operative scarring.

If you are looking for a clinic to remove plantar warts, foot warts, or toe warts, we recommend Gangnam Standard Orthopedics — a specialist wart removal clinic with a resident foot and ankle specialist as the lead physician.

Directions to Gangnam Standard Orthopedics (Plantar Wart Specialist Clinic)

: Approximately 4 minutes on foot from Gangnam Station Exit 5 :

From Gangnam Station Exit 5, walk 275 m toward the Useong Apartment intersection — cross the pedestrian crossing once in the direction of the Paris Baguette Gangnam Station Seocho branch — then look immediately to your right. Pass the Sohn Sang-won Climbing Gym, and you will find us on the 2nd floor, above Nuaju Gangnam Station Café and Cheongdam Witch Gimbap Gangnam Station branch.

※ Gangnam Standard Orthopedics is an officially registered medical institution able to treat foreign patients.