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Dealing with ingrown toe nails 9-Mar-2015 At 1:23:31 PM BBSR

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On 2/03/2015 JohnK wrote:

>Anyone been to a podiatrist to have an ingrown toe nail treated under
>a general anaesthetic? Any recommendations for podiatrists in Melbourne
>in the inner suburbs for this type of procedure?

I had one dealt with while I was in Malaysia. At the time there were a few options around, all involving killing parts of the nail bed to ensure a smaller nail grows back. In my case they gave me local (which actually hurt quite a bit), then they cut through the nail and the 'meat' below it basically taking a triangular cross section of meat out of the toe. Then they sewed the meat back together. Nail grows back not as wide as before. Took a while to walk properly again, but worked. There was some option around where they used acid to kill the nail bed, and I remember wishing they could have done that at the time (but they didn't offer it).

Can't imagine them using general when local would do.