discuss the situation with the customer
it's not about beauty but it's about
healthy condition
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hi my name is anayte and i'm here to get
a medical pedicure i am
clumsy and active and that's not like
the greatest combo for my feet
and i don't know how i injured my left
toenail
i dropped something or i was trying to
jump today dr archer is going to see it
and like let me know how to take care of
it i invest in a medical pedicure
because i think
it gives me a lot of security when i
come here
everything's clean and i love the staff
tatiana
and dr archer something that best
describes the way i
practice is a combination of medicine
and beauty
and they really are intertwined i'm dr
krista archer i
am a podiatrist on the upper east side
of manhattan a medical pedicure
is a pedicure as most people think of it
but it's
offered in my office where we have
surgical
surgically sterile instruments and it's
performed by
a technician that i've trained and
supervised
my name is tatiana and i'm a nail
technician and i'm working for
dr archer for anayta today we're doing
regular
basic medical pedicure it's just a part
of the maintenance
and to continue and to improve her feet
okay so good to have you here again so i
see that you have this little bruise you
didn't have it last time
what happened to it i was kicking the
sidewalk and like
jumping and i also bruised here i mean
it doesn't hurt
but it wasn't hard okay so let's start
it
she discovered she has a hematoma
underneath her big toenail the bad thing
about hematoma
is that fungus loves blood so it makes
the nail
very prone to getting a fungal infection
or making
an existing fungal infection worse
so every single instrument is separately
packed and disinfected
in advance so i have my old packets of
the instruments that necessary for this
procedure you're guaranteed that you're
not going to get
an infection or a fungal infection it
just helps them
just be pain-free and fungus-free and
infection-free down the line
and then do the clip-in
so after the clipping then i would
examine every nail and file and make
sure that corners in a good shape
the customer has a little fungus or
something like that going on so i prefer
to start with the food that doesn't have
that or has
less and then i change my tools while
i'm working
at the same time so i'll use the same
tool on the other nail that doesn't have
the fungus
hematoma it takes a really long time to
grow out
the nail plate grows about a millimeter
a month so a hematoma underneath a nail
plate could take as long as a year to
grow out
and after that i do a little scrub
it's a glycolic peel or fruit peel
basically it's a glycolic wash that we
use here
it's necessary to get rid of all the
build up and dry skin
a little to soften the colors soften
cuticles
and we use nail whitening so i put
nail whitening on every single nail
usually it's between 15
to 10 minutes
and then i brush it off with a little
brush and then i soak them
so we soak feet give them a little
massage a little
scrub little movement in the water i put
soaking salt which is malaysian salt
that also moisturizes skin and softens
the
callus or horse skin
after this i clip all the cuticles i
clean around i make sure that there is
nothing left no any extra skin that
shouldn't be there
i put the disinfecting tea tree oil
which is very important so this in fact
to prevent the fungus and also
to moisturize the skin and the cuticle
area
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then after that we use diamond cell file
which we also recommend to our customers
to have at home for the maintenance it's
like the best thing
you can have at home to take care of
your feet you clean it you brush it you
rinse it and just keep it there in the
shower it dries and ready to use for the
next time
at the end i do little light massage
with the moisturizing oil
i use our cream that we have here
doctors archers cream with different uh
plant extracts and also
we add a little bit of vitamin e oil
perfectly nourishes and moisturizes the
skin
and after that we discuss about the
color what kind of nail polish they
would like some people prefer just
anti-fungal base coat they don't want
any color because they want to see the
condition of the nail
so all this is done in about 50 minutes
and that's what i call nice clean
perfect medical pedicure
okay it's all set i love it love the
color you can't see the roofs
i love it thank you so my feet feel
great they're very smooth and hydrated
they have a cute color on and i did
really well
it was nice and brief pedicure every
single nail was
treated well and detailed and she walked
away with some extra samples of fungal
medication
and instructions for me how to treat it
going forward tatiana and dr
archer advised that i should keep on
using
the oil and then just try to not injure
my feet so much
i'm so happy i got uh the pedicure today
because i'm planning my outfits for the
weekend
and i'm wearing open toe shoes now so
it's awesome