Having the right equipment is crucial to perform your role as a pedicurist or podiatrist in the best way possible. Among this equipment are the gouge blades. What are they and what operations are they used for? Podialux, a store expert in products for pedicures and podiatrists, presents the gouge blades and their use in Belgium.
What is a gouge blade and in which cases should it be used?
What is a gouge blade for a pedicure or podiatrist?
The gouge blades are skin treatment instruments. Made of stainless steel, they are mainly used to treat skin conditions and correct defects that may be unsightly or not.
There are numerous blades that differ in their shape, but also, and especially in their size. They are thus classified into several categories ranging from number 1 to number 15. The higher the number, the bigger the equipment and used for operations that require less precision. It is therefore advisable to choose your blades carefully for each operation.
What are the advantages of a podiatrist blade?
The gouge blades, thanks to their stainless steel composition, are characterized by three major advantages:
- Sharpening: they are specially designed to be sharp. To do this, they are precisely sharpened with a diamond wheel to be effective in any operation;
- Precision: thin and sharp, this type of equipment has the advantage of being used for interventions that require meticulousness and concentration;
- Comfort of use: the shape of the blades is not a negligible element. Gouge models are specially studied to guarantee a better grip.
When to use a gouge blade?
The uses of gouge blades are varied and depend on the categorization of the equipment.
The smaller models are generally used to treat toes. This includes cleaning grooves, extracting corns, cutting the spur of an ingrown toenail, or stuffing. These operations are made possible by the small size of the blade and the precision it offers.
The larger ones are used for heel treatments. Indeed, the latter does not require as much precision as the toes and larger equipment is more advantageous. They are used to remove relatively large corns, remove a plantar keratosis, and remove too thick layers.
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