Today our
special guest is... do you want me to introduce you or do you want to remain anonymous?
We're going to be working on Art's toe, he's got a problem, tell us how this came about.
Well, next to the big toe is
moving in towards the nail and just causing a
discomfort and ingrown toenail there
The nail initially has some kind of trauma occur and it's probably related to this bump over here on the toe next to it.
For many people they don't have that and the trauma is just simply
bumping it into something or the shoes are too tight?
Whatever it is there there's something that is pushing on this that causes an inflammatory reaction where the skin grows up.
Up like this, above the nail, and if your nails are cut really short
it's actually going to come over the edge of the nail and as the nail grows, as it does continuously it's going to grow into
that skin.
So our solution is to give this skin here a break from all of that swelling by
taking the nail away well, we'll just cut along this edge of the nail all the way down to the germinal matrix which makes
toe nail
we will remove the nail and over the next six months
to eight months that it takes for a new nail to grow out this, of course, will heal up and go down.
As I put the shot and you notice I go right about parallel with the
nail
Go down to near the bone and then start injecting.
Are you hurting?
There, we're getting it. Where you can see it blanching the skin along the actual nail fold or nail wing
-That's not hurting? -No.
So we're gonna start to separate
the skin from the nail.
-Are you feeling anything? -No.
I feel nothing
both on top and underneath.
-Are you watching, you're able to watch that? -Sure. -Feeling anything? If it was me I wouldn't be able to watch.
-A little bit of a sting. -To the point that you want me to numb it up some more? -No. -Okay, and you can usually see the scissors through the nail.
I hesitate to put this out on YouTube because I'm afraid that the CIA may learn something.
-This is a Chinese torture test. -You're still doing okay with it? Okay, either that's impressive or somebody numbed you up well.
-I did think someone numbed me up very well. -Okay.
-I sure hope you did.
I'm thinking so right now.
I think that's been answered.
So the tough thing in this case is being able to
cut through
nail
all the way to the end
You don't feel that?
If I did I'd let you know.
-You think, cause it's not me and I'm feeling this. -I know.
-No, this is numbed up really good. -Good.
Okay
So, I don't know if anybody cares to focus on the, what used to be a part of you.
The nail fungus is something else we can address. We can treat that with medicine. Have we done that before?
The medicine requires checking liver function tests on a monthly basis for three months.
But now that is available generics. It's very inexpensive. I've never taken anybody off of it because of it interfering with their liver.
Were you able to before?
-No. -Were you able to play piano with your toes before?
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