Ingrown Toenail - Acrylic to Fix ?

[lildenise24]

Hi All,

I thought this would be a great thread to look at again with all the talk of ingrown toes.The Tammy Taylor video is great!

 

[Bagpuss]

its worked for some of my clients...posted this the other day..

http://www.salongeek.com/nail-geek/...wn-toe-nails.html?highlight=ingrown+toe+nails

 

[Kim@Talontastic]

We'll i'd never seen this thread before, but last week when I was ill I tried acrylic overlays on my toes and by god it's amazing. One of my big toes was starting to ingrow but now it's back to normal and i have pretty feet ready for summer.

 

[oey]

Does anybody know if gel on toes wroks the same way for ingrowing problems.

 

[nailzandbeauty]

I posted a thread yesterday about my daughter going to clinic yesterday they want to take both of her big toe nails off.Shes not happy about it at all read my thread to understand it more.Iv not done acrylic before im just woundering now if i got her toes done in this to try before the Opp to try n save her toe nails she is only 15yrs so very upset about it.any tips greatfull or any geeks live near me {skegness}that has done this before on clients with good results willing to travel to you within reason and pay of course.didnt really fancy taking her to local salons as half of them have just left school if you get me not alot of exsperiance in this kind of problems.Please help before she goes under the knife her confidence is at rock bottom to start with xxxx

 

[oey]

I posted a thread yesterday about my daughter going to clinic yesterday they want to take both of her big toe nails off.Shes not happy about it at all read my thread to understand it more.Iv not done acrylic before im just woundering now if i got her toes done in this to try before the Opp to try n save her toe nails she is only 15yrs so very upset about it.any tips greatfull or any geeks live near me {skegness}that has done this before on clients with good results willing to travel to you within reason and pay of course.didnt really fancy taking her to local salons as half of them have just left school if you get me not alot of exsperiance in this kind of problems.Please help before she goes under the knife her confidence is at rock bottom to start with xxxx

Hi Zena

Is your daughter having to have her toe nails removed because of them ingrowing or some other reason?

If its becaue they are ingrowing why do they think that they will not grow back? Normally with ingrown the nail does grow back - so I feel that hers may be a different problem.

Please give us more details as to why they think the outcome will be more severe than an ingrown nail situation. After all they are the experts.

 

[Bagpuss]

Does anybody know if gel on toes wroks the same way for ingrowing problems.

http://www.salongeek.com/nail-geek/...wn-toe-nails.html?highlight=ingrown+toe+nails

 

[nailzandbeauty]

They said because she has sufferd with the ingrowing along time,when they take them off they will put phenol on to prevent them from growing back.So she dosnt have to go thru this again with the pain.

 

[butterflygirl]

I suffered with ingrown toenails did all the things like cut a v in the middle and keep them short but they got worse and worse I mean really infected puss stuff that kind the toe dr even use to put proxide to try and cut down and the smell and puss. the only thing that worked for me was a toe brace it is like a piece of wire goes from one side of your nail to the other has half a square in the middle then he fits it to your nail and pushes it down as far as it can go Oh yes hurts but three weeks later it fell off. YEHA! i have not suffered with ingrown and that would of been 17 years ago the toe dr refused to take my nail off. Thank god for that i was even have injections because the infection was so bad. Now i have sexy toes :lol:

 

[nailzandbeauty]

She has just had 2 lots of anitbiotics to try n get them to grow up cos of the pain.Yes they have grown dont get me wrong but she is getting to the point with the pain again that she will start to chop them out again.Shes never had any puss or anything like that just pain and you can see the littile swelling at the side.

 

[becca boo]

im sorry but what is the thymolize treatment.:irked:

 

[nicky's nails]

my son had suffered with big toe ingrowing for years and last year after 6 months of permanent puss and infection and tons of ruined soaks stained with all the blood etc, they finally referred him to chiro clinic, they operated to remove a strip down one side and put something on it to stop it growing back, then 3 weeks later the other side started getting infected , so while he was n agony from first op they had to do the other side, and he was in terrible state, it got re-infected and he was on antibiotics for 4 weeks!! now we were told about 2 years ago by doctor to use the cutting a 'v' into toe nail, yet the podiatirst shouted at me for doing this and said its an old wives take that actually causes more harm than good and told me never to do it again?

well 4 weeks ago his other big toe started , hes in agony and looks like its getting infected agin, blood on all his socks etc, need to take him the doctors but obviously he's reluctant to go as he dosent want to have the op done again, as he was really ill with the anesthectic last time, but too painful to do it without, but he's in so much pain he's gonna have to,

but i must say i read with interest those of you that have treated ingrowing nails with acrylic, obviously because of his infection its too far gone for me to do this, but will bear it in mind incase he suffers with any other toes

xxx

 

[missdelarocha]

So this might be a few years late to give any useful information to you guys, but! It seemed to me as though the reason for acrylic working to stop the nail growing into the bed was unclear.

I'll try and explain as best as I can.

Your nail is growing into the sides of your nail, you have a thick nicely applied professionally performed coat of acrylic on that nail.
Now think, a thick coat of acrylic isn't going to be able to grow into the sides of your nail right? The acrylic stops at the sides of your skin as your nail is trying to grow into it. How can it possibly grow into the sides of your nail and follow your natural nail into your skin, that's the point it is like a barrier, but acrylic can grow forward because there is nothing stopping it so it will. Your nail isn't just going to stop growing so it's gotta grow somewhere and it can't grow into the sides.

Believe it or not there's something I don't understand though, if your nails have already started to grow into your skin and aren't visible at the free edge, as they grow forward will it not push through your skin to grow forward even if slightly in grown? Ouch.

 

[bugmenot]

This did wonders for my toe

 

[Jojo95]

The best thing to do is when you are cutting the toe nail cut a v shape in the middle then when the nail grows the ingrowing nail should grow out.
It worked for my husband and he has suffered with them for years. hth

where did you hear about this treatments method?

 

[Sallygd]

So this might be a few years late to give any useful information to you guys, but! It seemed to me as though the reason for acrylic working to stop the nail growing into the bed was unclear.

I'll try and explain as best as I can.

Your nail is growing into the sides of your nail, you have a thick nicely applied professionally performed coat of acrylic on that nail.
Now think, a thick coat of acrylic isn't going to be able to grow into the sides of your nail right? The acrylic stops at the sides of your skin as your nail is trying to grow into it. How can it possibly grow into the sides of your nail and follow your natural nail into your skin, that's the point it is like a barrier, but acrylic can grow forward because there is nothing stopping it so it will. Your nail isn't just going to stop growing so it's gotta grow somewhere and it can't grow into the sides.

Believe it or not there's something I don't understand though, if your nails have already started to grow into your skin and aren't visible at the free edge, as they grow forward will it not push through your skin to grow forward even if slightly in grown? Ouch.

 

[Sallygd]

Acrylics are dangerous on the nails it an infection. A big no no.