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2. Student's thumb amputated after skin cancer found after ... - AOL

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   A student from Australia had to have her thumb amputated after doctors diagnosed her with skin cancer following a nail-biting incident. Courtney Whithorn, 20, had developed a nail-biting habit ...

3. Habit-tic deformity - Wikipedia

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   Habit-tic deformity is caused by long-term external trauma to the nail matrix as a result of skin-picking around the affected nail. The underlying cause is habitual skin picking as a body-focused repetitive behavior which often worsens during times of stress, boredom, or inactivity.

4. Talk:Nail biting - Wikipedia

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   I would chip a nail, and then I would bite it down so the nail was even again. I would be fine for a little while, until I looked at my nail again. Biting your nails instead of trimming them is not a good method, and the edge I bit would be a little rough. I would keep biting my nails down, and down, and down until there was no nail left.

5. Trichotillomania - Wikipedia

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   Efforts to stop pulling hair typically fail. Hair removal may occur anywhere; however, the head and around the eyes are most common. The hair pulling is to such a degree that it results in distress and hair loss can be seen. [1] [2] As of 2023, the specific cause or causes of trichotillomania are unclear.

6. Artificial nails - Wikipedia

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   Artificial nails are an extension, not a replacement, of natural nails. There are two main approaches to creating artificial nails – tips and forms: A tip is a heavyweight nail-shaped plastic plate glued on the end of the natural nail, or, if it is a full-cover tip or "press-on", glued on top of the entire nailbed, and can have gel, dip or acrylic added on top

7. Body-focused repetitive behavior - Wikipedia

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   Individual behavioral therapy has been shown as a "probably effective" evidence-based therapy to help with thumb sucking, and possibly nail biting. [7] Cognitive behavioral therapy was cited as experimental evidence based therapy to treat trichotillomania and nail biting; [ 7 ] a systematic review found best evidence for habit reversal training ...