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Feb. 16th, 2007

  • 5:58 PM
bird with a fry
So. If you tear out someone's fingernails, do they grow back? I mean, I know they grow back if you smash a nail and it falls out, which would indicate they'd grow back if they were torn out. But if a dog's in an accident and the nail is torn out, those don't grow back. Which would indicate a person's wouldn't, either.

So... anyone know? By any chance?

J

**EDIT** My mini-research, spawned by different answers, seems to turn up that most times the nail grows back within 6 months. For the nail not to grow back, the cuticle and nail base have to be torn out, and that takes more than a normal tearing.

That takes, like, torture.

Mwahahahahahahaha.

J

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beachlass
Feb. 17th, 2007 02:12 am (UTC)
Afraid.
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jbmcdragon
Feb. 17th, 2007 02:30 am (UTC)
Be very afraid. *grins*

J
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kkglinka
Feb. 17th, 2007 02:23 am (UTC)
It depends on whether or not you ripped out the quick - the origin of the growth, along with the dead nail tissue.
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telosphilos
Feb. 17th, 2007 02:30 am (UTC)
What she said! So long as the quick isn't destroyed they should grow back.
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jbmcdragon
Feb. 17th, 2007 02:31 am (UTC)
Woot! THanks. There will be no growing back. Mwahahaha.

J
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jbmcdragon
Feb. 17th, 2007 02:31 am (UTC)
Ah! Thanks.

So, that would be a no for me, then. MWahahahaha.

J
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maelie
Feb. 17th, 2007 02:23 am (UTC)
Nailbeds regenerate cells, so yeah.

Googling "do torn fingernails grow back" also yields a yes.

http://health.yahoo.com/topic/beauty/resources/article/healthwise/sig256776



Maelie
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jbmcdragon
Feb. 17th, 2007 02:32 am (UTC)
Ah, but not if the cuticle is torn, off too... which happens only when it's really really violent. Not caught on something. >.>

Are we surprised that this is more what I'm intersted in? No. Of course not. ;)
J
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(Anonymous)
Feb. 17th, 2007 02:26 am (UTC)
From Doubting Thomasina,
Yup. I have the dubious honor of experiencing my big toe nail being ripped off in Karate class. It hurts like Hell. They go grow back, but I seem to remember it taking about 6 months.
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jbmcdragon
Feb. 17th, 2007 02:33 am (UTC)
Re: From Doubting Thomasina,
*nods* From what I researched (I only research if I get more than one answer, see. *grins*) It usually grows back--and takes six months!--if the cuticle is mostly intact. It takes whoa a lot for the cuticle not to be intact.

Like, y'know, someone purposefully ripping them out.

...

*coughs* I'm sweetness and light! Really!

J
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amarin_rose
Feb. 17th, 2007 02:54 am (UTC)
I sense this is for a story... So, in case you were wondering, I smashed my finger in a card door, and the nail...ripped, sort of. Ouch, yes. Anyway, most of it tore off, but it was still attached on one side. Eventually a new nail grew in *under* the old nail, and sort of pushed the old nail off (like new teeth growing in pushes the old tooth out). I ended up nail-clipping the old nail off in chunks while the new one grew in to take its place. Once in, the new nail was...disturbingly wavy, because of the way it grew in. But a few more weeks and the nail *did* go back to its original shape.

In fact, I can't even remember which finger it was anymore.
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jbmcdragon
Feb. 18th, 2007 05:24 pm (UTC)
Gahhh. I did that with a horse-tie clip. It closed on my finger, I jerked... It was gross. Ripped off almost half the nail, and it did that funky grow-in-under-the-other thing. It was bizzare. >.>

And, like you, it was wrinkly and weird, but eventually went back to normal. :D

J
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eshala
Feb. 17th, 2007 04:20 am (UTC)
So the research part cracked me up - and of course, then I was curious about what you typed in for your Google search...

I typed in "ripping out fingernails" and laughed at the results.

On a side note: I have had fingers slammed in doors, had windows fall on them, have had other things happen (no, not *that kind of thing*) and my nails have grown back - even when it looked like they had been damaged/ripped out to the quick. (same thing goes for toe nails)

Maybe if a long soak in something hot/warm happened, the 'quick' would be softened enough to accomodate the proper pulling???

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messypeaches
Feb. 17th, 2007 05:05 am (UTC)
Like anything jb's picturing would be accomdation. ANd jb if you thinking of you I think your thinking of but don't wish to say for it might spoil futire headfucking then no! Bad girl!
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messypeaches
Feb. 17th, 2007 05:05 am (UTC)
HE NEEDS THOSE FINGERS
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jbmcdragon
Feb. 18th, 2007 05:39 pm (UTC)
Wha? Huh? Noooooo. I'm innocent. I woudl never do anything like what you think I'm thinking.
>>
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Soooo... when you coming down again?

J
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eshala
Feb. 17th, 2007 03:33 pm (UTC)
No, no - I meant that scalding warm water might somehow add to the effect...

I certainly didn't mean to suggest that she would want to be *nice* about it!!!!!
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jbmcdragon
Feb. 18th, 2007 05:41 pm (UTC)
Oh! oH! Know what would REALLY hurt? (And I speak from semi-experience, only it wasn't hot water, it was lukewarm water.) Putting scalding water on fingers that newly had no nails! That skin is so so sensitive! Heck, I've got ahell of a pain tolerance, and when we did that to my nail--lukewarm!--to try and get the gauze off, I almost vomited. I did go dizzy and my vision got fuzzy, and my bf at that time came racing over 'cause he thoguht I was going to fall. *laughs*

Yeahhhh... >:D

J
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jbmcdragon
Feb. 18th, 2007 05:38 pm (UTC)
warm (*coughs*) water woudl actually soften the skin and make it easier... but see comment below. *GRINS*

It seems to me that if you're going to pull out a fingernail, you'd probably have to yank upward and then outward--upward to rip the nail off the bed far enough to grab it so you coudl get the rest. Most of the time, I don't think that'd tear the quick badly enough for the nail not to grow back, since that would pull the nail at an angle to weaken the grip on the skin... most of the time. >.>

If you really wanted the nails not to grow back, you'd almost have to slice them away from the nailbed first, then put tweezers or something between the nail and skin so you could pull just straight outward, tearing the cuticle with the nail, since the bond would still be strong.

...Not that I've given this some thought. *grins*

J
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eshala
Feb. 19th, 2007 05:45 am (UTC)
You could possibly use bamboo shoots, or even something that would be hard enough to slide, but would be soft enough to get in there... Perhaps even something that started out thin and pliable, and bulked up and became hard enough to *pluck* off with nail??

Just asking ;)
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iamgerg
Feb. 17th, 2007 07:37 am (UTC)
Yes they do grow back. and the quick will make the nail grow in the direction it's facing. so if you turned it upwards... the nail will grow up.

This I know for a fact.
Just don't ask me how I know.
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jbmcdragon
Feb. 18th, 2007 05:41 pm (UTC)
...dude. That's fucked up.

*gleefully takes info and runs!*

J
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winter_hermit
Feb. 17th, 2007 12:41 pm (UTC)
I don't know what you're up to, but I know it's evil.
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jbmcdragon
Feb. 18th, 2007 05:42 pm (UTC)
That's because you know me, and you know that everything I get up to is evil! I could be asking about how to make dessert for kittens, and you'd be all, "I don't know what you're up to, but I know it's evil."

...AND YOU'D BE RIGHT.

*grins*

J
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chibinecco
Feb. 17th, 2007 09:05 pm (UTC)
does this have somehting to do with the next TKM with Raidou? oh dear... or is it broken ninja series? or that thing with Obito and Kakashi?... you have too many things going i can't tell which this is a mini spoiler for XD (guessing TKM Raidou headfuck)
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jbmcdragon
Feb. 18th, 2007 05:43 pm (UTC)
...yes. No. Maybe.

Mwahahahaha.

J
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chibinecco
Feb. 18th, 2007 05:58 pm (UTC)
AAARRRGH you are evil *pouts*
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bloody_american
Feb. 19th, 2007 05:55 am (UTC)
Hm, should one wonder why you are curious about these kinds of things?

*is scared*
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