Depending on the extent of your surgery, you may be able to resume many of your regular activities the next day, or you may need to keep pressure off your healing nail and nail bed for up to two weeks ...

A debridement is often performed along with a "wash out" procedure, often referred to as an irrigation. Therefore, many surgeons refer to this combination as an irrigation and debridement, or I&D.

The plastic pilgrimage has become so common that Mr Makhlouf, who is 29, says he no longer knows “anyone who hasn’t gotten plastic surgery”.

This is different to a sentinel lymph node biopsy. If the biopsy shows the lymph nodes have cancer cells in them, you might have surgery to remove them. This is called a lymph node dissection or ...