Thanks for all the responses. I have a couple of ladies that the cotton under the corners really do help too. I have this one though that insist she has an ingrown on her first three toes on each foot on each side. That is 12 ingrown toenails. She has tiny little toes and they don't look like they are ingrown to me. I will trim out a small ingrown for someone if its not to bad but this lady keeps insisting that I need to cut more and like I said her toenails are tiny. There isn't much of a sidewall. If I would cut to much she would be bleeding. I have always heard it is against State Board laws to cut out ingrowns, I was just wondering if it really is true because I have never read it anywhere. Thanks Debbie, I think I will tell her that I am not allowed to do anything invasive and that is what I would be doing if I cut her nails any deeper. Angie
________________________________ From: Anna Z-James <annazja...@aol.com> To: nailtech@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, February 10, 2011 10:02:51 PM Subject: Re: NailTech:: ingrown nails DearMs. Anonymous in Ohio, Thanks for sharing that awe full experience with everyone....Thankfully I am no where near Ohio so I know I won't get that podiatrist anytime soon! :) Anna Creations by Anna Z-James www.annazjames.com -----Original Message----- From: pamsna...@aol.com To: nailtech@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 7:15 pm Subject: Re: NailTech:: ingrown nails I suffered an ingrown toenail last Oct.. and HAD to see a podiatrist for MONTHS after the intial visit! First of all.. I KNEW I would NEVER be able to hurt myself enough to remove the ingrown part. I tried to fix it myself, gently, and no way! Not a complete wuss, just knew it was that bad. So.. podiatrist takes a whack at it, with ZERO novocaine or anything! Gawd! I nearly fainted and she had to quit before she actually got the dang thing done! She HOPED she had done enuf, but NOoooooo... of course not! This was followed by many follow up visits, where we got NOWHERE because she wouldnt' believe ME when I insisted that I had an infection! Can you believe this!? FINALLY, she admits I DO have an infection, then prescribes antibiotics, then I had to go back for MORE visits that finally involved yet ANOTHER painful invasive "get the sucker out" procedure! I was sedated, wore my MP3 Player headphones, had my husband drive me AND sit in the room with me for moral support, AND read a magazine to avoid another fainting episode! lol! You just CANNOT go digging and poking around on any part of my body like that and not expect me to faint! Golly! So... my advice, let a professional handle it! As long as its NOT the one I went to! Anonymous in Ohio.. hehe! -----Original Message----- From: Anna Z-James <annazja...@aol.com> To: nailtech@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 10:06 pm Subject: Re: NailTech:: ingrown nails For some clients I actually push cotton in to allow a wedge between the skin and the nail so that it doesn't hurt them as much this seems to work for about 50 percent of the clients in the way of relief...I get them too and have found that as long as I leave them alone and don't mess with them keeping them longer then normal they don't bother me as much. Anna Creations by Anna Z-James www.annazjames.com -----Original Message----- From: Debbie Doerrlamm <sa...@beautytech.com> To: nailtech@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 6:47 pm Subject: Re: NailTech:: ingrown nails This is probably against your state board license laws :) It would be considered "invasive" I dont have ingrowns, hubby is bordering on them, mine are pincher type. Many techs as a regular practice cut the corners deep \_/ butt that's not always the answer.. I have tried several different methods and the only one that brought me relief was to allow the nails to grow out just past the edge - yes I get comments all the time.. got them puppies a little long doncha?? Well - they are not THAT long :) Also I have been doing hard gel or acrylic on the offending digits for months now and I am starting to see some change in the shape and the degree of "dooming/pinching". On hubby I have asked again to allow me to let them grow out past the edge.. he really doesnt want to start the podiatrist visits, so he let me do this.. I clip just the sharp corner so it doesn't poke him and he hasn;t whined about his toes in a while now .. BUT these methods dont work for everyone.. some find the deep cuts - and WE have to be VERY carful doing that - offer relief, some find it makes things worse. There even has been discussion about constant deep cutting the corners is creating ingrowns.. so watch what you are doing there! Your best bet is to align yourself with a local podiatrist and refer them over there. Debbie At 06:10 PM 2/10/2011, you wrote: How many of you remove ingrown toenails? Is it against State Board, depending on your state? I am needing some info on this subject if anyone has any. Thanks. > >Angie > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"NailTech" group. >To post to this group, send email to nailtech@googlegroups.com. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >nailtech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/nailtech?hl=en. 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