Radiofrequency
What is a radiofrequency treatment?
Radiofrequency or radio wave surgery is based on cutting tissue with high frequency alternating current.
This surgical procedure is very different from traditional electro-surgery and other types of electrocauterization because it can simultaneously cut and coagulate tissue without using any kind of physical pressure.
Process
With radiofrequency, only the growth/mole on the skin is removed, after local anaesthesia, which is injected with a very thin needle under the growth itself. Immediately after the treatment, a wound is formed at the location of the growth.
This wound does not bleed and it is of the same size as the removed growth. Subsequently a scab is formed, and after 7-10 days, a fresh layer of skin forms which in time acquires the same colour as the surrounding skin.
Advantages of radiofrequency are
- Low risk of scarring
- Minimal damage of the surrounding skin
- No bleeding
- Minimal pain after the application of local anaesthesia
- Areas which can be treated
Lesions that are treated include different benign growths, warts, seborrheic keratoses and moles on the surface of the skin.