For best results, soak your wart in warm water for 10 to 15 minutes first, to soften it. Then, file away the dead skin on top using a nail file or pumice stone. Make sure to stop filing if you ...

For stubborn warts, peeling creams with glycolic acid, stronger salicylic acid, or tretinoin could do the trick.

A clinician swabs or sprays liquid nitrogen onto the wart and a small surrounding area. The extreme cold (which may be as low as –321 F) burns the skin, causing pain, redness, and usually a blister. Getting rid of the wart this way usually takes three or four treatments, one every two to three weeks; any more than that probably won't help.

Warts on the fingers are a common contagious skin condition caused by HPV. People can get warts on their fingers through direct or indirect contact.

Thread- or finger-like. Skin-colored, brown, grey or black. Like they have small black or brownish dots. They range in size from 1 millimeter to a couple of centimeters. You may have just one wart or several in the same area. You may be able to identify a wart by yourself.