Also, the cuticular seal of the nails should be intact, and the nail plate should adhere to the nail bed, says Dr. Thomas Stringer, a dermatologist with MedStar Health. “Fingernails, along with the ...

"The nail bed is the support structure for the nail plate — it impacts the strength, color, and texture of the nail and is ...

Statistics suggest that nail disorders are the main reason for 10 percent of dermatologist visits in the United States. Keeping your nails healthy through careful grooming and judicious use of ...

Such disorders usually affect most of the patient's nails. However ... with loss of adherence between the nail plate and nail bed and subsequent accumulation of substances and microorganisms.

Be they bitten, picked, filed, or polished, a child's nails can generate a variety of dermatologic disorders. While fewer than 2% of visits to a pediatric dermatology clinic involve conditions ...

S cientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered that the presence of a benign nail abnormality may ...