Electrosurgery is the application of a high-frequency (radio frequency) electrical current to biological tissue/skin as a means to cut, coagulate, desiccate, or fulgurate tissue.

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There are so many dermatology procedures that respond well to electrosurgery that dermatologists generally use it every day.  

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 The use of electrosurgery has been tied to less bleeding during the procedure which reduces complications, promotes rapid healing and minimal scarring.

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• Electrofulguration is used to treat skin tags and protruding warty lesions such as seborrhoeic keratoses, viral warts, xanthelasma and dermatosis papulosa nigra (DPN).

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• Electrodesiccation is used to remove flat seborrhoeic keratoses and lesions under the skin such as syringoma, milia, comedones, sebaceous hyperplasia and molluscum contagiosum.