Know what lines on your nails reveal about your health. Learn which deficiencies can cause nail ridges, grooves, or other ...

If you've noticed horizontal lines on your nails, you may be wondering what they mean. It turns out, they could be telling ...

A cancer patient grew concerned when he began to develop unexplained white lines across his fingernails. The 30-year-old man said the horizontal lines across his nail beds appeared around the ...

Fingernails and toenails grow slowly, so it may take some time for the white spots or lines to disappear entirely. Fingernails typically take 6 months or more to grow out fully. Toenails can take ...

The tumor is believed to affect the production and distribution of keratin, the type of protein that makes up the nail. The white lines represent higher levels of keratinization, or areas where ...

Have you ever noticed white spots or lines on your nails? These vertical and horizontal marks are commonly seen in many and are often ignored. Some link this to calcium deficiency in the body ...

“Leukonychia is a condition where people get these white dots or lines on their fingernails,” says Karan Lal, D.O., M.S., F.A.A.D., double board-certified dermatologist with Affiliated ...

Longitudinal leukonychia, which presents as a white band down the nail. Striate or transverse leukonychia, where one or more horizontal lines appear across the nail, parallel to the lunula.

If you, like me, have lived your life so far being completely baffled about why you get white marks on your fingernails every now and then, despite having milk in your cereal every morning, then ...

I’ve had white spots on my nails for as long as I can remember. It’s one of those things, like sleeping with wet hair or swallowing gum, that I hear a lot of myths about ― some said it was a ...