Ingrown toenail is commonly met in clinical practice.treatment may be non-operative and operative treatment.operative trestment depends on lateral wedge resection of the nail. The idea is to change toenail biomechanics by central toenail resection.
The aim of this study is to compare between central toenail resection with ordinary lateral wedge resection in managing ingrown toenail. This study was performed on 100 patients divided into 2 groupd each is 50 patients. Group A underwent central resection while group B underwent lateral toenail resection.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
10
Using local aneasthesia, resection of central part of toenail with germinal matrix.
Using local anaesthesia,we remove lateral part of toenail .
Postoperative pain on visual analog score for pain
All patients are pain free after 5 days postoperative
Time frame: six month
Intraoperative time measured in minutes
All operations end within 15 minutes.
Time frame: Six month
Recurrence after operation
Recurrence is followed up by asking the patient to follow up in outpatient clinic after six month and also,by calling the patients in telephone.
Time frame: six month
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