Warts are caused by an infectious virus. The virus gets into the skin through a cut so small you do not know it is there. The virus particle  gets into the deepest layer of the dermis and takes up residence in the local cells. It works like all virus particles by getting into the cell and tricking the cell into manufacturing hundreds or thousands of additional virus particles. The cell ruptures spewing the virus particles into the neighboring cells. These cells pick up the wart and repeat the cycle. Soon you have so many cells with virus particles that the clump is visible as a wart. Q. Why is this wart called a plantar wart?A. Because the bottom of the foot is known as the plantar surface and a wart there is thereby called a plantar wart. A callus there is called a plantar callus. (A fascia there is called a plantar fascia.)Q, What is a "Kissing Wart"?A. Warts can spread directly from one part of the skin to anther if they rub together. For example a wart on the big toe can spread to the 2nd toe just by touching it. You end up with warts on each toe that are kind of mirror images of each other. I have called them kissing warts for obvious reasons.       A. warts are treated for three reasons: 1) they can hurt, they can spread, if  they stay in the skin long enough they can hurt the deep layer of the skin causing a permanent scar. Q. So what, you may ask, do I care about a scar on the bottom of my foot since no one will see it.. A. Because walking on a scar can hurt every bit as much as the wart itself.Q. What happens if you do not treat a wart?A. One of three things may happen: It could stay the same for years, it could get larger or spread to other parts of your (or other's) feet or it could go away. Left alone many warts will go away by themselves given enough time. This may be a long time. However, you may not want to wait.Q. How do you treat warts?

A. There are many ways to treat a wart. V-Beam Perfecta is fast, painless, with no side effects and no healing down time. It is a one time treatment, and takes approximately 3 – 5 minutes.