Minor Surgical Procedures

At Cold Hollow Family Practice, we also perform many minor surgical procedures to address a variety of health issues. We can help senior adults and geriatric patients with various skin problems as well as ingrown toenails, warts, and earwax build-up. We can also treat people of all ages who may need urgent care for minor injuries, lacerations, foreign body removal from the skin, wound care, and dressing changes. Here is a more complete list of the minor surgical procedures we do at Cold Hollow Family Practice:

• Drain skin abscess
• Drainage of pilonidal cyst
• Skin foreign body removal
• Care for benign skin lesions
• Punch biopsy
• Removal of skin tags
• Shave biopsy
• Removal of benign lesion
• Treatment/removal of ingrown toenail
• Drain blood from under the nail
• Laceration repair
• Removal of sutures
• Destroy benign/premalignant lesion
• Destruction of warts
• Remove of impacted ear wax
• Insertion of long-acting birth control
• Wound care
• Dressing changes