Posts by End Nail Biting

Nail biters tend to bite our nails for a number of reasons often related to dealing with stress and anxiety. Quitting can be made more difficult depending on those reasons, our recognition of the...

Well, that escalated quickly. From biting your nails to no longer living? Is this even possible? While nail biting has a number of well-known side effects and some that aren't as well known, most...

While chronic nail biting is well known to cause the obvious damage and unsightliness to our nails, it can also cause breaks and cracking to teeth, damage to the root of the teeth, mouth infections...

With COVID-19, hand washing becomes even more important to mouth, nail and overall health. This is certainly true for us nail biters every time we put our nails in our mouth to bite them. Germs...

Onychophagia is the medical term for chronic nail biting. While many men, women and children might bite and pick their nails from time to time, Onychophagia is the ongoing and chronic biting of...

Nail biting typically starts in children no younger than 3 or 4 years old. While many children - particularly girls - kick the habit by the age of 10, many other kids continue the habit or stop for a...