TN PODIATRIST STATES THAT YOU CAN'T TRUST GRADINGS OF NAIL SALONS
posted: Feb. 01, 2013.
CHATTANOOGA TENNISEE PODIATRIST, DR. ROBERT SPALDING WHO HAS WRITTEN A BOOK TITLED 'DEATH BY PEDICURE: DIRTY SECRETS OF NAIL SALONS' WHICH DOCUMENTS SOME OF THE UNSANITARY PRACTICES OCCURING IN U.S. SALONS.
PODIATRIST SPALDING STATES, "IF A SALON HAS A HIGH GRADE, CAN YOU REALLY TRUST IT IS A CLEAN AND SAFE PLACE FOR YOU TO GO? DON'T GET TOO CAUGHT UP WITH THE GRADE OF THE SALON. YOU NEED TO ACTUALLY MAKE YOUR OWN IDENTIFICATIONS AS FAR AS DISINFECTION PRACTICES."
MY FOOT CLINIC RECOMMENDS THAT PEOPLE ONLY RECEIVE MEDICAL PEDICURES AT CHIROPODISTS OR PODIATRIST FOOT CLINICS AND THEN IF YOU WANT TO ONLY HAVE YOUR NAILS PAINTED AT ONE OF THESE SPAS. REMEMBER THAT NAIL POLISH IS BAD FOR YOUR NAILS AS THEY CANNOT BREATH. EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE YOU SHOULD GIVE YOUR NAILS A REST BY NOT APPLYING POLISH, ESPECIALLY IN THE WINTER WHEN YOU ARE WEARING CLOSED SHOES.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY DR. JOHN A. HARDY, OWNER OF ACADEMY FOOT AND ORTHOTIC CLINICS.