You can make your toenail grow back faster by taking biotin supplements.
Biotin supplements help to promote cell growth, and help your body metabolize protein-building amino acids, thus contributing to faster toenail growth.
The way a big toenail or other toenail grows back is out of the matrix, which is the little pocket under the skin.
It constantly is creating new cells, which lengthens the nails by forcing the old ones to get pushed together and grow out.
When the cells finally grow out of the matrix, they are dead.
Both toenails and fingernails grow slowly, with toenails taking longer to regrow.
On average, it can take up to 18 months for a toenail to completely regrow, and about 4 to 6 months for a fingernail to grow back.
Mycotic toenails is a fungal infection of the toenails.
The mycotic fungal infection can affect both toenails and fingernails as well.
Mycosis of the toenails separates your nail from your nail bed, making it thick and fragile.
It may also change colors.
The word “mycotic” means an infection with a fungus or a disease caused by a fungus.
A CNA is not usually allowed to cut toenails and instead the toenails would be cut by a podiatrist.
However a CNA in some places may be allowed to do gentle filing or small cuts of fingernails but not toenails.
Debridement of nails is a procedure done with either a grinder or a manual instrument that involves the removal of a diseased toenail bed or viable nail plate.
A damaged nail bed can sometimes heal itself up without medical treatment.
If the nail bed is not damaged too severely then it could heal up within 4 to 5 months and your nails should grow back.
If the nail bed is more severely damaged then you may require surgery or splinting to fix the severe damaged nail bed.
In that case your nail bed can be repaired through splinting or surgery and your nails should grow back within a few months to a year after having the nail bed surgery.
If you do damage your nail bed severely you should go to the urgent care center or the emergency room and have them fix it through either splinting or surgery.
Sometimes you may have a deformed nail if the nail bed is severely damaged.
The nail bed supports the hard part of your nail as it grows.
It includes the hyponychium and the onychodermal.
These are layers of tissue that prevent pathogens from infecting the skin underneath your nail plate.
Nails also consists of the nail matrix.
This part of the nail produces new nail plate cells.
Healthy fingernails are smooth, without pits or grooves.
They're uniform in color and consistency and free of spots or discoloration.
Sometimes fingernails develop harmless vertical ridges that run from the cuticle to the tip of the nail.
Vertical ridges tend to become more prominent with age.
After a nail separates from the nail bed for whatever reason, it will not reattach.
A new nail will have to grow back in its place.
Nails grow back slowly.
It takes about 6 months for a fingernail and up to 18 months for a toenail to grow back.
Nail bed injuries can occur many ways.
Often, they happen when your nail's caught between two objects or hit by something heavy, such as being slammed in a door, having something being dropped on it, or being hit by a hammer.
They can also be caused by cuts, such as from a knife or a saw.
You can often treat a minor nail bed injury at home by:
Removing all jewelry.
Washing the injured area gently with fragrance-free soap.
Bandaging the injury gently, if there is an open wound.
Applying an ice pack for about 20 minutes at a time.
Elevating the injured hand or foot.