Category: Health

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...

Finally, some good news for nail biters. Research has shown that early life exposure to certain microbial organisms that kids are typically exposed to via nail biting and thumb sucking are...

Nail biters are probably already aware of the obvious side effects of nail biting. Ugly looking nails and fingers. Pain when you bite too much of the nail off. Bleeding. These are the side effects we...

2020 has gone down as the year where coronavirus affected the entire world in many different ways and to differing degrees. For nail biters though, COVID brings an extra level of caution since...