The filmer said: "The video shows the removal of a large wooden splinter that had embedded itself deeply under my thumbnail. "To access and extract it, I had to carefully trim and grind away part of ...

Splinters are everyday injuries commonly involving a small shard of wood, glass, metal, plastic or a thorn that becomes embedded in the skin and the soft tissue underneath. The outer skin layer, known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California ER doctor Joe Whittington recommends using a clean, unused medicine syringe to create a suction to easily remove a ...