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I slammed my thumb-nail in a car door and the bottom part of my nail has fallen off. what can i do to treat it?

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Patience: Hopefully there has not been any damage to the nailbed. You will just have to give it time and wait for the nail to grow out. There is nothing you can do to treat this. If there was no damage to the nailbed it should grow back normally.

Dr Roland agreed

Answered 8/11/2014

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