MINOR SURGERIES

Piara Waters Medical Centre offers a range of minor procedures and surgeries performed in our dedicated theatre room located in our practice.

This includes:

• Punch and shave biopsies

• Skin cancer surgery: Elliptical excision of skin cancers with direct closure on all areas of the face (except eyelids)

• Simple and less complicated skin flaps on the above areas (excluding eyelids)

• Skin tags removal

• Incision and drainage of abscesses

• Removal of hairy moles

• Foreign body removal from skin and soft tissue

• On site IV Fluid Therapy (IV antibiotic and Iron Infusion)

• Implanon Insertion and Removal

• Intrauterine Device (IUD) Insertion and Removal

• Wedge Resection of Ingrown Toenails with phenolisation of nail bed

• Suture of Lacerations on most areas of the body

• Cauterisation of the nose for Epistaxis (Silver Nitrate)

• Wart removal through excision or Cryotherapy (a very popular treatment for many lesser skin growths)

• Ganglion aspiration and injection with cortisone

• Ganglion excision

• Extirpation of tarsal cysts

• Removal of digital nail of fingers, thumb or toes