아크릴릭에 의한 네일형태변화가 조갑감입증 개선에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Ingrowing toenail is one of the most common nail complaints. In nail care, the acrylic nail is the method for making artificial nails with hardening of the shape within a certain time after mixing a blend of 3 other materials-polymer methyl methacrylate polymer powder, monomer the liquid acryl and catalyst. The acrylic nail which makes the artificial nails can be used in improvement of ingrown nails. In this study, it was conducted the experiment during 8 weeks that the square type acrylic nail treatment on the big toenail of 12 ingrown nail women without infection. Before the experiment and 2, 4,6, 8 weeks later of that, the improvement effect of ingrown nail was investigated by measuring the width of C-curve and observation of the change of C-curve shape and question about pain. As a result, the width of C-curve of right big toenail was significantly increased 24.22±6.11% from 11.50±1.23 mm to 14.24±1.24 mm 8 weeks later. And that of left big toenail was increased 21.76±7.33% from 11.57±1.43 mm to 14.01±1.19 mm 8 weeks later. According to the naked eye observation, there was stronger pain at the beginning of experiment than before the starting of that. But 3~4 days later,the participants answered that there was no pain and 2, 4, 6, 8 weeks later, the width of C-curve was increased in measurement. In accordance with these results, it is confirmed that the ingrown nail treatment is valid on pain relief of ingrown nail. Thus, it is suggested that the acrylic nail treatment is worth of being used in the field of nail cosmetology because that is noninvasive method and is possible to adjust pain of ingrowing and to correct the shape of toenail in a brief time.