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Some use "lateral onychoplasty," or "wedge resection," as the method of choice for ingrown toenails. A wide wedge resection, with a total cleaning (removal) of nail matrix, has a nearly 100% success rate. [citation needed] Some physicians will not perform a complete nail avulsion (removal) except under extreme circumstances. In most cases ...
An ingrown nail, also known as onychocryptosis (from Greek: ὄνυξ (onyx) 'nail' and κρυπτός (kryptos) 'hidden') is a common form of nail disease.It is an often painful condition in which the nail grows so that it cuts into one or both sides of the paronychium or nail bed.
Efinaconazole, sold under the brand name Jublia among others, is a triazole antifungal medication. It is approved for use in the United States, Canada, and Japan as a 10% topical solution for the treatment of onychomycosis (fungal infection of the nail).
Price: $9 per applicator/bottle | Active ingredient: Tolnaftate, 1% | Application: Apply twice a day (morning and night) Fungi-Nail takes the prize for best overall toenail fungus treatment ...
Other treatment methods, which may be used in combination with surgical removal and/or with each other include: carbon dioxide-based laser vaporization; electrocauterization; shave excision of the tumor with phenolization (i.e. excision of the tumor’s protruding portion followed by treatment of the proximal perionych [i.e., skin around a nail ...
Phenol is the standard, and the corresponding rating system is called the "Phenol coefficient". The disinfectant to be tested is compared with phenol on a standard microbe (usually Salmonella typhi or Staphylococcus aureus). Disinfectants that are more effective than phenol have a coefficient > 1. Those that are less effective have a ...
Marketed as Curanail, Loceryl, Locetar, and Odenil, amorolfine is commonly available in the form of a nail lacquer, containing 5% amorolfine hydrochloride as the active ingredient. It is used to treat onychomycosis (fungal infection of the toe- and fingernails). Amorolfine 5% nail lacquer in once-weekly or twice-weekly applications was shown in ...
One clinical trial comparing Debacterol to Kenalog-in-Orabase and a no-intervention control group found that patients treated with sulfonated phenolics/sulfuric acid reported significantly better relief of symptoms compared to the other two groups three days after treatment. [4]