Posts by End Nail Biting

One of the side effects of nail biting can be bruxism which is also known as grinding your teeth. Grinding teeth can lead to a number of side effects including damage to both the tooth and root, jaw...

Are you a nail picker more than a nail biter? Perhaps you do both and alternate between the two. I refer to myself as a nail biter even though I tend to pick my nails more than bite them. A quick...

An interesting thing has happened since I first started this website. About 10 days into it, I stopped biting my nails. While I did actually notice myself early on in the process stopping to...

Shame and embarrassment can be powerful catalysts for change. For nail biters, we often develop ways to hide not only our chewed fingernails but our actual nail biting from others, too. Of course, if...

Biting our nails not only tears off part of our fingernails but it can take a toll on the part of the nails that remain. Permanent damage to nail growth is rare as long as the nail bed isn't damaged....

It takes around 6 months to regrow your fingernail and around 12 months (one full year) to regrow your big toenail. For us nail biters, nail growth isn't necessarily a problem as we're busy biting...