Ingrown Toenail Surgery: Removing the Root to Prevent Recurrence

Ingrown toenail self-treatment, toe inflammation, and pus around the big toe — accurate, root-cause treatment through ingrown toenail removal surgery at a specialist clinic is necessary.

A teenage patient with an ingrown toenail who visited our ingrown toenail removal surgery specialist clinic.

Lt. 1st toe ingrowing nail

A high school student who visited our ingrown toenail specialist clinic due to pus and inflammation of the big toe caused by an ingrowing nail.

The patient had undergone partial ingrown toenail removal surgery approximately three times at other clinics and had also tried nail correction devices designed to straighten the nail, but the condition kept recurring with no lasting effect.

Characteristics of teenage and adolescent ingrown toenail patients

In younger child and adolescent patients with ingrown toenails, the curvature of the nail itself is often not severe; however, the skin surrounding the nail — including granulation tissue — tends to be thickened.

In the case of child and adolescent ingrown toenail patients:

For ingrown toenail treatment, rather than correcting the shape of the nail, removing the granulation tissue and properly addressing the skin and the ingrown nail itself is what prevents the condition from recurring.

Ingrown toenail removal surgery specialist for children and adolescents — what sets the ingrown toenail removal surgery performed by Dr. Cho Ju-won at Gangnam Standard Orthopedics apart:

The key point is that the ingrown nail must be removed, and the root of the nail must be thoroughly excised.

Many patients who have previously undergone ingrown toenail removal surgery have experienced recurrence so often that they have come to accept it as inevitable. At our clinic, we focus on thorough recurrence prevention as part of the procedure.

One of the most common questions patients ask before ingrown toenail removal surgery is about bleeding. The procedure is performed under local anesthesia, and bleeding during surgery is minimal.

It is roughly comparable to the minor bleeding that can occur when accidentally disturbing an ingrown toenail during self-care at home — a brief, throbbing discomfort with a small amount of blood.

The image shows complete removal down to the nail root, which was the underlying cause. Ingrown toenail removal surgery and treatment have been completed, including suturing aimed at effective pain control and a significant reduction in the risk of recurrence.

Directions to Gangnam Standard Orthopedics — ingrown toenail removal surgery specialist near Gangnam Station:

From Exit 5 of Gangnam Station, walk approximately 275 m toward the Woosung Apartment intersection. Cross the pedestrian crossing once in the direction of Paris Baguette (Gangnam Station Seocho branch). Turn immediately to the right, pass Son Sang-won Climbing Gym, and enter the doorway between Nuage Bakery Café and Cheongdam Witch Gimbap (Gangnam Station branch). The clinic is located on the 2nd floor.