Indications
- Ingrowing toenail
- Onychogryphosis
- Nail infections
Procedure (Zadik's operation)
- LA ring block
- Apply rubber tourniquet
- Incise nail bed (transversely) + elevate flaps
- Remove nail plate with heavy scissors
- Cut across nail bed down to bone and continue to nail fold, remove nail bed (get all of germinal matrix)
- Suture skin flaps at side