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Article: Duct tape gets another use _ removing warts.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 18, 2002
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It binds up holiday packages, serves as a make-shift splint, fastens NASA equipment together, and seals air ducts.
Now doctors have found a new use for duct tape: wart removal.
The plain old sticky handyman essential is an effective method of removing common warts that is less expensive, less painful and more convenient than the current treatment of choice in many doctors' offices, according to study published this week in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
"It is one more method to treat that is non-threatening to kids and safe to use," said Dr. Dean R. Focht III, the study's lead author and a fellow at Cincinnati Children's ...