SWIFT therapy for plantar warts works differently than other treatment options. While cryotherapy, acid and other topical treatments target warts from the surface, SWIFT’s microwave energy penetrates your skin to uncover the virus causing the warts to form in the first place. In the weeks and months that follow, your immune system learns to recognize and fight that virus, resulting in SWIFT’s close to 80% wart clearance rate. But while those initial results are impressive, what truly sets this treatment apart is the SWIFT therapy long-term results—the wart recurrence rate for this treatment is less than 1%. In this post, we explore the long-term success rates for this therapy, allowing Marietta podiatrist Dr. Alvin Cowans to consider it as a permanent wart removal option.
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SWIFT can deliver un-paralleled long-term results because of its unique mechanism of action. Using precisely-target, low-dose microwave energy, SWIFT delivers treatment without damaging the healthy tissue surrounding your wart. Instead, that energy penetrates beneath the surface of your skin, generating heat that uncloaks the HPV virus that causes warts to form in the first place. In response to this micro-trauma, your immune system is triggered to react; it starts fighting the HPV virus to stimulate wart clearing, typically over a treatment course involving three to four SWIFT sessions.
In the short-term, this course of treatment results in an efficacy rate that is often higher than those associated with traditional plantar wart treatment options. But what’s truly impressive is the SWIFT therapy long-term results: because it addresses the root cause of wart formation harnessing your body’s immune response to directly target the responsible virus, SWIFT therapy allows patients to develop long-term immunity to this virus. As a result, your risk for wart recurrence after SWIFT is less than 1%, compared to the approximately 20% recurrence rate associated with more traditional therapies. For that reason, we consider SWIFT therapy a nearly permanent wart removal option.
Exploring Treatment with Your Marietta Podiatrist
In addition to promising SWIFT therapy long-term results, this treatment option is considered safe and effective for most patients. To explore your candidacy and find your best solution to stubborn plantar warts, we encourage you to contact our team by calling 770-727-0614 or by following this link to request an appointment.