Ingrown toenail is a common but painful feet problem. It always happens on the big toe. People always do not pay enough attention to it and hoping it would go away by itself. While for most cases, it won't heal by itself; and when left untreated, it would become more and more serious. Click here to check the three stage of ingrown toenail. This is a full record of a nail recovery process after ingrown toenail's full nail removal surgery. This is the photos before the nail removal. This Ingrown toenail has reached the later Second stage,  a lot of pus build up around the nail edge, and granulation tissue is about to grow. This is the photo of the big toe after the nail removal. Though it is a side picture, You can see the swollen part has relieved a lot after the pus getting out. This is a picture of the nail that was taken off, and we can see the causes of this ingrown toenail. That when cutting the nail, it did not cut the nail straight across to the nail end, so that it left a nail spike inside. When the nail keeps growing, this nail spike pierced the soft tissue. The bandage after the surgery. The numb continued for another 1 hour after the surgery, then would start to feel the pain. While the pain is still acceptable. During the whole growing process, the most painful moment is the time when you change the dressing for the first time (2 days after the surgery). As…

There are many different causes of ingrown toenails. Here introduced the most common three versions of ingrown toenails' causes and pictures Causes:  1: tight shoes, high heels, that the nail was pressed to grow more curved. 2: nail fungus. Remedy: Check home treatment for ingrown toenail Causes: Improper nail cutting. That cut the nail too short, then the nail bed and lateral nail fold enclosed the nail, and trapped the nail to grow out.  In the worst cases, the nail would puncture the nail bed through ( see the last photo) Remedy: Check home treatment for ingrown toenail Causes: This is mainly caused by tight shoes and combined with tight shoes. When cutting the nail, it did not cut straight across to the nail's end and left a spike or a pointing edge in the nail. When the nail grows, the spike would puncture the lateral nail fold. Remedy: Check home treatment for ingrown toenail  

An ingrown toenail happens when the nail grows into the soft tissue and caused a wound along the lateral nail fold. The wound causes redness, swelling, and later build pus around the toe. The lateral nail fold's skin would also be overgrown to cover the part of the nail edge which makes the nail even hard to grow out of the nail bed. There are many different shapes of toenails in ingrown toenails. The more curve the toenail is, the easier it is to cause wound and pain in the toe.  Normally our toenails only have a slight curve over the nail bed. While due to tight shoes, intense workouts, our walking habits, etc. The toenail suffered force to make it grow more curved. As the picture shows. For the very severe situation, the nail even curved to fold again into the nail bed. You can find more ingrown toenail shapes here. For most people, they did not know they have ingrown toenails until they felt pain in their toe, and they also did not pay much attention until the pus build-up.  This is how the ingrown toenail looks like in the early stage. It would have redness and swelling on the toe. The one in the picture is a popular cause of ingrown toenails. That the nail edge was cut too deep and short. The lateral nail fold has enclosed the nail's edge, so when cutting the nail, it is hard to cut the nail straight across, and easy to leave a spike in the nail.  It is very…

Looks at the toenail anatomy, there are 3 key parts involved in ingrown toenail. Nail bed: The skin under the nail plate Lateral Nail fold: The skin that encloses the edge side of the nail plate Nail plate: The nail edge that were surrounded by lateral nail fold. An ingrown toenail is a common foot problem. It happens when the nail plate bends more and grows into the lateral nail fold, sometimes the nail would even bend into the nail bed. Usually happens on the big toe. There are many different toenail shapes in ingrown toenails. The Mild version, that the nail edge bends less than 90 degrees,  and the nail edge grow into lateral nail fold The Moderate version, that the nail bends to over 90 degrees, looks like a staple and the nail edge start to grow into the nail bed The Severe version, that the nail bends like a closed staple, and the nail edge grow into the nail bed The very Severe version, that the nail bends so much that it fold again. This can happen to one side or both side of the nail. When the toenail bends more, normally the pain would increase. So be careful when our toenail starts to bend. Check more here for different ingrown toenail shapes and prevention     Ingrown toenail causes a lot of pain when the nail edge punctured the soft tissue. It won't recover by itself. If left untreated, It would develop into 3 stages: First stage: It would have redness, swelling. You would feel pain…