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I had an ingrown toenail and the dr noticed the nail had fungus, so he removed the entire nail. when will it grow completely back?

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Nail growth: The nail can take anywhere from 6-12 months to grow back completely.

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This may take a year: Nials grow at different rates from person to person and vary with age and trauma as well. It should be healed and doing better by 6 weeks but will take many months to grow back out.

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Dr. David Hettinger answered

Specializes in Podiatry

It depends...: On which nail had the problem. The big toenail (statistically) takes an average of 11 months to grow from the nail matrix cells to the free edge, but the younger you are and the better the circulation... It could be six months. The lesser nails will grow back faster as well.

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1mm/month: Toenails grow very slowly, at a general rate of 1 millimeter of growth per month. So, depending on what toenail was removed, and the original length of that toenail, you can calculate approximately how many months it will take for it to grow out to length.

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Dr. Payam Rafat answered

Specializes in Podiatry

Arround 6 to 9 month: Nail grow slow. They may grow even slower as we age. It may take up to a year sometimes for the nail to grow from the base out to the end.

Answered 9/28/2016

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The nail should grow back in 10 to 12 months. Did the Doctor just remove the nail or did he remove the nail ad growth center. I recommend Biotin 10mg one time a day after nail removal. It may speed up the regrowth.

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