HOWELL, Mich., Feb. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Advanced foot and ankle specialists of Howell Michigan and Brighton Michigan have been performing removal of ingrown toenails, infected toenails ...

Ingrown toenail surgery is a relatively minor outpatient procedure to remove part of an ingrown toenail and to kill the portion of the nail matrix from which it grows. It poses several minor ...

The Mayo Clinic has a safe removal strategy you can try at home, but some cases definitely require a doctor's help. Don't be afraid to call one up if you have an ingrown toenail.

If an ingrown toenail comes back more than 2-3x times, it may be worth it to apply medication to the root of the removed toenail. This is much less likely to allow the toenail to ever go back.

Your toenail serves as a flattening mechanism for your toe skin, so if you groom it too short, the skin will adapt to that, and cause an ingrown toenail, she says.