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One part I'm still not very clear on is if the nail bed refers to the entire area under the nails or just the part at the base of the nail, where it grows from.
My incident didn't touch that base but absolutely exposed some of that skin underneath. The regrown nail seems to be adhering well to that skin, too (that was my biggest worry, that I'd be left with a "bubble" of nail seperate from the skin underneath).
The nail bed is the part under the nail. The germinal matrix is the part that grows the nail and has the stem cells, iirc. It's under and behind the cuticle.
It's pretty hard to get the nail to not stick to the nail bed. I had both big toenails permanently removed, but eventually a very thin layer of nail came back a year or two later, and it's as affixed as strongly as the old nail was.
Well, actually stronger because I used to remove the nails myself to avoid the surgery to fix ingrown nails, and eventually they just kinda popped off without issue.
Well that got a shudder out of me. Hope it isn't as unpleasant as it sounds for you these days.