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  2. Why Are My Toenails White? Doctors Explain. - AOL

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    White toenails can take time to treat, Dr. Wofford emphasizes, “I remind my patients that any treatment or intervention will take six to nine months to yield results due to the slow nature of ...

  3. Here's Why Your Toenails Might Be White—and What to ... - AOL

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    "Trauma could cause white spots on the nails or even white lines (leukonychia)," says Dr. Mendeszoon. "Bumping one’s toe or being stepped upon may cause injury to the nail plate and dermis ...

  4. What Dermatologists Want You to Know About White Spots on ...

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    Tests to diagnose white spots on nails Nail scraping Your doctor may scrape your nails to rule out a superficial fungal infection, which Dr. Lal says is “quick, effective, and easy” to perform ...

  5. Athlete's foot - Wikipedia

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    To be effective, treatment includes all infected areas (such as toenails, hands, torso, etc.). Otherwise, the infection may continue to spread, including back to treated areas. For example, leaving fungal infection of the nail untreated may allow it to spread back to the rest of the foot, to become athlete's foot once again.

  6. Leukonychia - Wikipedia

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    It is also caused by trauma. In most cases, when white spots appear on a single or a couple of fingernails or toenails, the most common cause is injury to the base (matrix) of the nail. When this is the case, white spots disappear after around eight months, which is the amount of time the nails take to regrow completely.

  7. Nail disease - Wikipedia

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    Anatomy of the basic parts of a human nail.A. Nail plate; B. lunula; C. root; D. sinus; E. matrix; F. nail bed; G. eponychium; H. free margin. Onychia is an inflammation of the nail folds (surrounding tissue of the nail plate) of the nail with formation of pus and shedding of the nail.

  8. 11 easy, natural ways to treat nearly all of your foot problems

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  9. Paronychia - Wikipedia

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    Nail psoriasis can affect the fingernails and toenails. It may cause thickening of the nails with areas of pitting, ridges, irregular contour, and even raising of the nail from the nail bed. [16] Squamous-cell carcinoma is mainly cancer of the skin, but can also affect the nail bed. It is a rare malignant subungual tumor subject to misdiagnosis ...