Toe nail removal
Toe nail removal overview
Your toenail can cause trouble in two main ways. First, it can make the skin fold at the side and become very swollen and red (ingrowing toenail). Second, it can become very thick, curved and painful. Both these conditions can be treated by an operation.
The Operation
The toe is made numb with an injection of local anaesthetic into its base. Then, for an ingrowing toenail, a sliver of the nail and of the nail bed is cut out on each side that is tender and swollen. The nail is then always a little narrower. The skin fold settles down. For a thick curved nail, the whole nail and all the nail bed are cut out so that instead of a nail there is just skin. You should be able to go home within one hour of the operation.
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Ingrown Toenail Removal
Ingrown toenails (onychocryptosis, unguis incarnatus) are frequently encountered in both general practice and specialty clinics, and, thus, a fundamental level of understanding of the development and management of the condition, including knowledge of the nail anatomy, is useful.
The nail plate, or the nail proper, consists of the body , which is the exposed portion, and the root, which is the proximal portion covered by a fold of skin called the eponychium. The cuticle is the most distal edge of the eponychium. The nail plate rests on a continuation of the stratum germinativum, called the nail bed. The nail walls are the segments of skin that overhang the lateral edges of the nail, which attach within the sterile matrix. The germinal matrix runs from an area just distal to the lunula to several millimeters proximal and deep to the eponychium. The germinal matrix is likely solely responsible for longitudinal growth of the nail.
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