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The Feldman Family Wart Treatment

I mentioned last week that I never treat my family. When my wife had an ingrown toenail, I sent her to see Dr. Feldman.

Not everyone follows that adage.

We recently added a new medical device to the office called Swift that is used for warts. I didn’t know that both Neil Feldman and his wife had some pesky warts that wouldn’t go away.

I watched as Neil treated his wife, and then he let me treat his warts to learn about our new device.

For those who have not heard of this device, it is a sleek-looking device that delivers focused microwaves to the tissue surrounding the wart to create an immune response. This allows your body to fight the warts and get rid of them.

Usually, when we get new technology, we like to treat (practice) it on one another before we use it on patients.

Wart or not, we all tried it to feel the patient experience, and Dr. Feldman had the standard 6 rounds of heating on the skin.

I asked him to record a short video to share his experience. You can watch it below.

Video of Dr. Feldman talking about his Swift office treatment.

• What Swift feels like (Dr. Feldman)
• The first Swift experience (Dr. Feldman)

What have we learned about Swift?

After gaining some experience with treatments I have learned a few tips you should know if you come in for treatment.

1. Lightly touch the skin with the probe. The harder you push the more it hurts.
2. Squeeze the skin around the wart as this helps reduce the pain.
3. Understand that the heat reduces instantly after the treatment so discomfort is quick.
4. This treatment works about 50% faster than traditional treatments (beetle juice and laser), is 85% effective and has less than 1% recurrence rate.

Lots of patients that are struggling to fix their warts are choosing Swift.

We put a little PDF together about wart treatments if you want to check it out click HERE.

Friends Don’t Let Friends Live With Warts!

Call us at 508-757-4003 for an appointment with Dr. Neil Feldman, Dr. Donald Pelto, Dr. Benjamin Saviet, Dr. Vicki Stone, and Dr. Matthew Monette (Starting in July).

To your health,

Dr. Pelto