Cut toenails this thing – you may have been doing it wrong! You may say who can’t cut their nails? It is true that most finger and toe nails cut more or less, cut into what kind, after a month may not make any difference. But the two big toes cut, if not correct, may form a nail, is the nail into the flesh, so painful! In addition, nail fungus is an inflammation of the nail groove, ingrown nail is just one of the reasons. The main reason for not cutting the right nail is to trim too much. The big toe in the picture below was trimmed too much. The nail plate and the lateral nail folds are next to each other, but they are squeezing each other. If one side is not there anymore (too much trimming of the nail plate), the lateral nail folds without the nail plate will grow in the middle and take up the nail plate’s territory. So when the nail plate grows back to this place, you will find that there is no room, so you have to grow into the flesh! Therefore, the correct way to cut the nail is like this: If you have more movement, the more obvious the nail spikes into the flesh. Some people cut off the nail that is embedded in the flesh again by themselves or at the nail salon, so there is a vicious circle again and again, and there are also people who only know to come to the hospital when the nail is cut like this. In fact, the correction of ingrown nails is to coordinate the relationship between the nail plate and the lateral nail folds (the flesh on the side), which are like a couple, not too far apart, and not too tight. In fact, for milder cases, you only need to pad up the outer corner of the nail that is embedded in the flesh and separate the nail folds to keep them from getting too close. Those with hyperplasia should deal with the diseased side and then harmonize the relationship. Some patients only know how to trim the visible part, and as a result, the invisible part, keeps growing. Eventually, it wears out of the toe. When I perform surgery I like to correct the relationship and then place a track to get the “couple” back on track. There are many ways to operate on ingrown nails, but Uncle usually tries to minimize the damage by not cutting the nail plate, the nail bed, or the nail matrix. Of course, it is best to learn how to properly cut the toenail, if there is an ingrown nail situation, earlier in the hospital with a very simple method can be solved.