On my right foot in the past, I had to have a wedge resection after cutting my toenail stupidly and enduring a horrible infection for a year. Recently my other toenail went a little red and uncomfortable, but the nail had already grown enough to not cause problems and it went fine.

Recently my left toenail which didn't have any surgery cracked. I was crawling on the floor amusing my baby sister when I must have moved funny and put weight on it, cracking the nail. A picture below shows how it cracked... its actually split apart, like I have cut the nail half way and too far down.


I just put a plaster over it to stop it snagging off, but I'm not sure if I should just cut the rest off and have it clean across. Problem is, its lower than it should be. I'm worried it will start to grow funny and result in another podiatry catastrophe.

Has anyone ever done this before, and what did you do?