Conservative Treatment of Ingrown Toenail (TOCON)

Universidad de Extremadura

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nails, Abnormal; Ingrown Nail

Treatments: Procedure: Follow up of the clinical stage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05214586

TOCON

Details and patient eligibility

About

Ingrown toenail has become one of the most prevalent onychopathies and a frequent reason for consultation in podiatry clinics. In the initial stages of the pathology, conservative treatments are the first choice of therapy. The aim was therefore, to analyze and compare the efficacy of the technique of nail re-education with gauze bandage and nail remodelling for the conservative treatment of onychocryptosis in stage I and IIA, A prospective, longitudinal, randomised clinical trial-type analytical study is proposed. A sample of 20 subjects with stage I and IIA onychocryptosis will be selected. Of these, 10 cases were part of the gauze bandage nail re-education group and the remaining 10 cases were part of the nail remodelling group.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ingrown toenail in stage I or IIa (Mozena Classification)

Exclusion criteria

• Patients not allowed for clinical follow-up of the evolution of the pathology.
• Patients presented with deforming pathologies
• Pattens had been surgically operated for ingrown toenail

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

Spiculotomy and application of a Gel Nail

Experimental group

Description:

A nail spicule removal technique will be performed of the edge or nail edges affected by ingrown toenail. After, a gel nail will be applied to remodeling the nail apparatus and avoid damage of the nail in the lateral fold.

Treatment:

Procedure: Follow up of the clinical stage

Spiculotomy and Nail Re-education with Gauze Bandage

Active Comparator group

Description:

A nail spicule removal technique will be performed and a cord of gauze bandage between the nail channel and the sheet will be applied. This technique consists in the removal of the portion of the nail sheet that causes ingrown toenail in order to release the soft parts.

Treatment:

Procedure: Follow up of the clinical stage