Cautery in Oakville, Ontario
Quickly and effectively remove minor skin imperfections with cautery at Oakville Skin. This precise, minimally invasive treatment targets skin tags, warts, and benign lesions, helping you achieve smoother, healthier-looking skin with minimal discomfort. Serving Oakville and the Greater Toronto Area, we provide professional care tailored to your needs.
What Is Cautery?
Cautery, also known as electro-cautery or electrosurgery, uses controlled electrical current to treat small skin lesions. It’s commonly used to remove milia, syringomas, facial warts, skin tags, and sebaceous hyperplasia, or to stop minor bleeding from small vessels.
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How Cautery Works
One of our trained professionals applies a metal tip heated with electricity to the target area. This destroys the tissue, creating a scab that naturally falls off over time. Local anesthetic or numbing cream is used to ensure minimal discomfort during the procedure.
What to Expect
BEFORE
Before your treatment, a topical numbing cream or local anesthetic is applied to minimize discomfort.
DURING YOUR PROCEDURE
During the procedure, the affected area is treated with a precise electrical tip, which removes or destroys the targeted tissue.
AFTER
Afterward, you may feel a slight burning or tingling sensation.
How Much Does Cautery Cost?
At Oakville Skin, treatments start at $250. For a personalized quote based on your goals and budget, kindly book a consultation with our team.
Frequently Asked Questions
Not really. A topical numbing cream can be applied to the area being treated. If treating a few lesions, an injectable local anaesthetic may be used.
Treatment is well tolerated, but pain can vary from patient to patient.
Cautery works by passing an electrical current through a small metal tip. This current sends heat into the tip, and then the tip is placed on to the area that needs to be treated. This will make the area scab.
The area that is treated can be scabbed anywhere from 7-10 days up to 2 weeks.
Cautery is a safe and effective way to remove minor skin imperfections like skin tags, warts, and benign lesions. The procedure is quick and typically causes minimal discomfort thanks to numbing cream or local anesthetic. Because the treatment is precise, only the affected areas are targeted, helping to ensure clean results. When performed by trained professionals, cautery provides lasting improvements to the appearance of your skin.
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