a new treatment is emerging though… a few podiatrists in the states, uk and portugal are using dental bonding and composite materials(the ones used on yout teeth by the dentist) to adhere and sculpt a new toenail to your nail bed. it uses nano-adhearane. the same molecular way a filling fixes to your tooth to keep it stuck to the nail bed. even if you hsve no toenail whatsoever. for the majority of people it seems to work very well. for me, i was unlucky, it came of straight away – it depends on how much scar tissue is left on yout toe.

try searchin podiatry – missing toenail composite bond… andre ferria in portugal – and there s a practise in kent, uk that also does it.

for me i feel that the practise of using dental bondig agent is a good step forward to fixing something long-term to your toe – but not perfect. it seems to me that the further sculpting of a resin nail on top of this bonding agent produces something a little too bulky and stiff to stay on long-term.

ive had to resort to diy methods

ive manged to produce realistic enough looking nails – using a few layers of opaque sticking tape (the type that is almost transparent and matte in surface) and putting a thin even layer of matte eyeshadow between the top two layers to give it the corrent pinky creamy colour. Eyeshadow is brilaint because it comes in a billion different colours and there is definately one shade out there that can be matched to the colour of your nails…. this produces an incredibly thin (the same thiness as a nail) light and flexible nail like material that can then can be cut to size and adhered to he toe using composite bonding agent – purchaceable cheaply from ebay – about 17pounds -its called fusion bonding agent.

all this costs nothing. but youll need a light curing device to harden the fusion bond… about 50 pounds – also easily avaialable from ebay – a few drops of bond is all thats needed. this actually is all very simple and easy.

i ahd a nail that stayed on for three monrhs… did it again, and now four and still going strong. its the best thing ive found so far.

im going to make a fact sheet – stooboogaloo@yahoo.co.uk – also with names and adresses of podiatrists who do are using this new technique if you dont want to go the DIY route

also i ahve afeeling his is going to become alot more widespread in podaitry and prhaps the techniques will be refined further, who know something better may be along soon.

in solidarity with the toenailess

Stoo x