RESUMO
A series of two hundred patients with ingrowing toe-nails has been operated upon using simple technique based on solving the suggested aetiological factor initiating and perpetuating the condition in a so called pressure circle. A wedge of tissue in removed from the external surface of the nail wall parallel to and away by one m.m. from the site of contact of the nail wall with the nail edge. The thickness of this wedge should be wide enough to evert the swollen nail wall away from the nail edge so as to cut short the successive effects of the pressure circle. Soft shoes were allowed by the third day, while normal footwears and activities were permitted by the fifth day. The early as well as the late results were excellent. The recurrence rate was 2.5% and was attributed to inadequacy of eversion of the nail wall