Ingrown nails are defined as inflammation of the lateral nail fold that is caused by penetration by the nail plate and associates with pain and/or infection. The pain associated with ingrown nail hampers walking, raises the risk of falls, and decreases the quality of life. The Sogawa method is a novel conservative medical treatment for ingrown nails that is based on stainless steel wire. It was...

Jennifer Trainor, MD, pediatric emergency room physician: The fancy name is onychocryptosis. There are several degrees of involvement ranging from minimal erythema and edema to a large, swollen toe with purulent drainage. The etiology is felt to relate to improper growth of the nail penetrating the skin. This may be due to improper nail trimming, which leaves a curved, sharp nail or to an unusu...

The bimolecular quenching of the metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) excited state of Ru(phen)z(dppz)2+ (phen = 1,lO-phenanthroline, dppz = dipyrido[3,2-a:2’,3’-clphenazine) by proton transfer has been investigated in homogeneous acetonitrile solutions and in the presence of calf thymus DNA. In acetonitrile the monoexponential decay of the MLCT excited state emission of R~(phen)2(dppz)~+ is ...

Abstract
 Background: In ingrown toenail, classifications and the treatment approaches according to staging has been clearly reported in literature. However, there are not enough data about selection of appropriate surgical technique stage. this study, we compared two different techniques patients with Heifetz stage 2 3 means results, recovery time, patient comfort cosmetics.
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BACKGROUND Current evidence shows that anaesthetic digital block with epinephrine is safe in surgical selected patients. There are no controlled studies that have examined the efficacy of local anaesthesia with vasoconstrictor in chemical matricectomy without using tourniquet to control bleeding. OBJECTIVES A controlled, prospective and randomized study was conducted to examine primarily the ...