The doctor told me not much can be done. Perhaps you are talking about the common wart. These firm growths usually have a rough surface, are round or irregular, are grayish, yellow, or brown in color and usually are less than one-half inch across. Generally, they appear on areas that are frequently injured, such as the fingers, around the nails, knees, face and scalp. They may spread, but common warts are never cancerous.
Most common warts disappear without treatment within two years.
Daily applications of a solution or plaster containing salicylic and lactic acids soften the infected skin, which can be peeled off to make the wart disappear faster. Regardless of the treatment method, warts come back about one-third of the time. Remember that warts are small skin growths caused by any of 60 related human papillomavirus types, so the treatment could vary. 882-7000 to make an appointment with a University of Missouri Health Sciences Center physician. There has to be something better than Retin A and metro gel, which do absolutely nothing.