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Dealing with ingrown toe nails 2-Mar-2015 At 8:55:39 PM Miguel75

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I suffered ingrown toenails on both large toenails for many years, due to too small snowboard boots, and could never get rid of them so visited a podiatrist on Moreland Rd, Joseph Rogers. It sounds a little extreme, and kinda gross, but I had both large toenails remodeled into a Mohawk style super thin strip, think approx 5-10mm wide, and the nail matrix basically destroyed to slow/stop nail regrowth. It took almost 10 years for the nails to grow back and I can happily say I've not had another ingrown toenail.

I believe Joseph is now in Tassie so that might make a visit to him difficult.

EDIT- originally I'd thought of removing the whole toenail though couldn't find a podiatrist who thought my idea was a good one, so settled for Joseph's compromise of the Mohawk nail.