Ingrown Toenail Patient - Podiatrist Kansas City, Lee's Summit, MO and Overland Park, KS
Patient discusses the successful treatment he received by Dr. Mark green for an ingrown toenail.
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Ingrown toenails are usually excessively incurvated borders on either side of the toe, which commonly affects the great toenails. Ingrown toenails are a very common and often a very painful condition seen in kids and adults alike. The borders of the big toenails are most commonly affected, and can be curved downward excessively. While poor trimming habits seem to get the blame for most ingrown toenails, the most common culprit is hereditary.
Usually the nail border is excessively curved all the way back to the base of the nail, under the cuticle. That means that the growth center for the nail or nail matrix is also excessively curved downward. When the matrix produces a new nail, it produces it with an excessively curved shape at the borders. As the
