I crushed my fingertip and it's been two weeks and blue part is the one that is free now after I cut off all the dead tissue anchoring the nail to the nailbed; but the red part is still going strong/is alive, apparently. Is there a way to diy cut it off safely because I am tired of this dumbass dead nail.
>>2980094just file it as thin as you can without going through so when your new nail starts to grow it won't steer straight down because that shit hurts.
>>2980099Good idea but I am too lazy for that. Anyway I cut off pieces of nail that I could and there's a massive indentation in the flesh where the impact happened so I wouldn't be surprised if nothing grows there anymore.
The professional hand surgeon way to take a nail up is to get something flat underneath it. We do a digital nerve block with lidocaine to numb the finger. We use a surgical instrument called a freer elevator. Or iris scissors. It sounds like your nail fold is partially removed. But whenever taking a nail out (usually to suture a laceration of the nailbed) we splint open the nailfold either by sliding the original nail in or slide in a sterile piece of aluminum foil. The nail won't grow out correctly if the nailfold is allowed to close up.Additionally, nail plate fractures are usually associated with a nailbed laceration. They usually bleed a lot. And if the lac is not repaired there may be a nail deformity like a bump or stepoff.Here is a video of nailbed laceration repair.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QazLIVYQjIU
I had a good smash a while back, pictures are two weeks apart. It grew back mostly normal, the grain is a bit off so I can't tear neat crescents off of that nail anymore, the tear curves inwards and it bleeds.
>>2980170Is my nail fuged, doc?
>>2980094Are you the anon that keeps posting on /b/?Because I'm the anon that did this loading a log into the bucket on my tractor
>>2980183>>2980373GoooooI tore a thumbnail clean off in a mechanicking fuckup and it grew back completely normal except for a little blue mark under the nail
>>2980411No I have not posted on /b/ in ages>>2980412What kinda worries me is that there's an relatively deep indentation in the flesh in the nail matrix or whatever it's called. Oh well!
