By Sam Blanchard Health Reporter For Mailonline
Published: 10:51 GMT, 20 March 2019 | Updated: 10:51 GMT, 20 March 2019
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A stomach-churning video has revealed the moment a doctor repairs an ingrown toenail.
Miss Foot Fixer, a podiatrist in London, filmed the footage of her treating a patient's bloody toenail, which had grown deep inside their foot.
She cuts away the curled sides of the toenail, pulling them out from deep inside the nail folds on either side and revealing gaping holes where they had dug in.
After the patient's left-side big toe has been treated it is scrubbed clean and left with a small square of nail which should return to near-normal in future.
The video posted by Miss Foot Fixer, real name Marion Yau, begins with her clearing away bits of dead skin and dried blood from around the ingrown toenail
Miss Foot Fixer, real name Marion Yau, is a podiatrist on Harley Street in London.
In this video she treats an unidentified patient who made the 130-mile (209km) trip from Nottingham to get their 'really bad' ingrown toenail treated.
At the start of the clip, Ms Yau scrapes away dried blood from across the toenail and surrounding skin using a sharp metal tool.
She uses the same tool to peel off bits of dead skin around the nail then mops the toe with a piece of blood-stained gauze before bringing out the big clippers.
Ms Yau then uses large clippers to cut the nail vertically down to the root and grips it with forceps before pulling out a curled piece of nail from the nail bed
