Electrocautery
Electrocautery is a method for removing skin tags. Using an electrical current, it burns off the dry and dead cells of the skin tag. This causes the top layers of skin to become hard, brittle, and black. The surface of the tag becomes extremely painful and inflamed. This is the body’s way of protecting the deeper layers of tissue from infection. The surface eventually dries up, sloughs off, and falls away.
The long-term results of electrocautery are excellent as long as all the blackened and dried tissue is removed or burned off. If some of it is left behind, there will be a raised scar where the skin tag was located.
