Figure 4: Photo documentation during clinical course and outcome at follow-up of three exemplary patients treated with silicone finger cap
In two cases there was a minimal residual non-adherence of the nail body to the distal nail bed. Only in two cases we saw an interruption of the regularly regenerated pattern of dermal ridges by a small scar. Epithelialization time reached from 20 to 36 days in the patients treated with a finger cap. Where data was available, film occlusions were found to be equally successful with epithlialization times from 6 days to 36 days (Table 2).