Doing so would contain the area of virus infection hence removing it later with scraping, burning or even laser. Another more surgical method of removing warts is to simply cut it out with a surgeon's knife or a specially designed spoon shaped device, this method is also known as curettage.
Using curettage method to remove warts is usually combined with electrosurgery process. Electrosurgery uses tools that send a small electrical charge into the heads of the wart, carefully burning it and later on removed using curettage surgery. Ah and there's laser treatment that is slowly gaining grounds in this field of wart removal. Laser treatment for removing warts uses intense beam of light to burn out the roots of the wart, which means cutting of the blood supply for it killing it in the process. The wart is left to die internally and will be removed or cut off after some time.
Now comes the chemical part of wart removal, these methods of removal can easily be obtain as an over-the-counter medicine. Examples of such medicines are brands like: Dr. Scholl's Freeze Away wart Remover, Clear Away on step, Salicylic Acid Wart Remover and Compound W. A more powerful prescription of Cantharin is usually recommended by doctors as a treatment for severe cases of warts.