Cryosurgery

Cutaneous cryosurgery refers to localized application of freezing temperatures to achieve destruction of skin lesions with high cure rates.

Liquefied nitrous oxide freezes at a temperature of 89°C

Advantages of cryopen/cryosurgery:

a) Relatively less down time
b) Painless procedure
c) Can be performed on children also
d) Can treat mucosal lesions, skin tags, seborroeic keratosis, all kinds of warts (plantar also), molluscum contagiosum and freckles/lentigenes.