How To Snip An Ingrown Toenail The Right Way

By: Jesse Emspak 
Published: 10/22/2014 10:53 AM EDT on LiveScience

Nobody likes ingrown toenails, and when you get one, your instinct may be to clip off the offending bit. But new research shows that might be exactly the wrong thing to do —it won't necessarily stop the toenail from growing in again, and the reason all comes down to physics.