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What Is Your Opinion About Putting Something To Inhibit The Growth Of Ingrown Toenail?

I am wanting to know if you do ingrown toenail surgery. My father is 94 years old and talked with a man in walmart who had the surgery and said the surgeon put something on the toenail to keep it from growing down in any more. What can you tell me?
Karen

Tue, 18 Mar 2014
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I usually treat my patients with an oral antibiotic for a week to resolve the infection followed by "Nail avulsion with Phenolic Matriectomy", which is the best procedure in my view. In this procedure after Nail avulsion, the Nail Matrix on the side of ingrown toe nail, should be cauterised with phenol, which is a MUST to prevent the recurrence of ingrowing toe nail.

I would advice that you see a dermatologist. Your dermatologist might ask you to take an oral antibiotic for a week if there is infection in that region followed by Nail avulsion and Nail Matriectomy.

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What Is Your Opinion About Putting Something To Inhibit The Growth Of Ingrown Toenail?

Hello and welcome to healthcaremagic I usually treat my patients with an oral antibiotic for a week to resolve the infection followed by Nail avulsion with Phenolic Matriectomy , which is the best procedure in my view. In this procedure after Nail avulsion, the Nail Matrix on the side of ingrown toe nail, should be cauterised with phenol, which is a MUST to prevent the recurrence of ingrowing toe nail. I would advice that you see a dermatologist. Your dermatologist might ask you to take an oral antibiotic for a week if there is infection in that region followed by Nail avulsion and Nail Matriectomy. take care regards