One of the hardest questions people ask when they are treating a plantar wart by themselves is how can you tell when the wart is cured, or when the wart is gone. It’s not easy. Generally speaking you still have dead skin in the area. Heck it might even still hurt. So first we have to remember what we are treating. With a wart you are treating a virus. Can you see the virus? No you cannot see the virus that is causing the wart. But the wart does leave a calling card; you know in the middle of your wart those black dots. There might have been five or six black dots. It is when you cannot see anymore black dots; that is when the wart is cured.
Now here is the bad news. Those black dots are hard to see and most Podiatrists and Dermatologists actually need a magnifying glass to determine if those warts are no longer present, so this is not easy. Generally speaking though, if you wait a week or two after you think the wart is gone, and no black dots are visible to the human eye you are probably out of the woods.