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A Simple Therapeutic Strategy with Super Elastic Wire for Ingrown Toenails

A Simple Therapeutic Strategy with Super Elastic Wire for Ingrown Toenails An ingrown toenail, which causes pain especially with secondary infection, is one of the most common diseases of toenails. It becomes difficult for a patient to walk and subsequently impairs quality of life. Surgical procedures, including total or partial excision of the nailbed, phenolization, and carbon dioxide laser matricectomy method, are commonly performed. The disadvantages of these methods include complexity, pain, time consumption, and the need for local anesthesia during the operation. Moreover, these methods may cause a cosmetic deformity, resulting in narrower nail width, and recurrence occurs in approximately 1% to 4% of patients who receive phenolization. Physicians in clinics usually use cotton, elastic tape, polyacryl sculptured nails, or flexible tube splinting as nonsurgical procedures, but cotton insertion and elastic taping require frequent home care for maintenance, and flexible tube splinting requires local anesthesia. Some devices, such as a VHO‐Osthold brace or a plastic device, have been recently designed with favorable results, although the effectiveness of these regimens awaits future evaluation. Here, we present a therapy for patients with ingrown nails using super elastic wire (SE‐wire). SE‐wire is an alloy of nickel and titanium and has strong elastic strength. Machida and colleagues first devised this treatment in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dermatologic Surgery Wolters Kluwer Health

A Simple Therapeutic Strategy with Super Elastic Wire for Ingrown Toenails

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Publisher
Wolters Kluwer Health
Copyright
© 2008 by the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, Inc.
ISSN
1076-0512
eISSN
1524-4725
DOI
10.1111/j.1524-4725.2008.34360.x
pmid
19076901
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Abstract

An ingrown toenail, which causes pain especially with secondary infection, is one of the most common diseases of toenails. It becomes difficult for a patient to walk and subsequently impairs quality of life. Surgical procedures, including total or partial excision of the nailbed, phenolization, and carbon dioxide laser matricectomy method, are commonly performed. The disadvantages of these methods include complexity, pain, time consumption, and the need for local anesthesia during the operation. Moreover, these methods may cause a cosmetic deformity, resulting in narrower nail width, and recurrence occurs in approximately 1% to 4% of patients who receive phenolization. Physicians in clinics usually use cotton, elastic tape, polyacryl sculptured nails, or flexible tube splinting as nonsurgical procedures, but cotton insertion and elastic taping require frequent home care for maintenance, and flexible tube splinting requires local anesthesia. Some devices, such as a VHO‐Osthold brace or a plastic device, have been recently designed with favorable results, although the effectiveness of these regimens awaits future evaluation. Here, we present a therapy for patients with ingrown nails using super elastic wire (SE‐wire). SE‐wire is an alloy of nickel and titanium and has strong elastic strength. Machida and colleagues first devised this treatment in

Journal

Dermatologic SurgeryWolters Kluwer Health

Published: Dec 1, 2008

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