HPV is a disease that there is still much to be learned about. It is something that many of the population can pick up over the course of their life. While most healthy individuals can clear the HPV, in a very few it will go on to create other health issues such as oral cancer, anal cancer, cervical cancer, genital warts, etc. This is a very small percentage of patients who get HPV that will go on to develop these diseases.

A biopsy can be done 3 ways. First they can knock you completely out to take a tiny piece of tissue. Next is a local where just that area is numbed. The 3rd way is to just take a small snip without anything to numb you at all. I have had biopsies all 3 ways and actually prefer the 3rd method. Its the quickest and with one little snip its over. Sure it hurts for a couple minutes but its not a big deal. You will want to consider how much tissue and how deep the doctor will go on which method will work for your situation.