Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
In this situation, providing there has been no permanent damage to the nail bed, the nail usually grows back over 6-9 months. ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW. The old nail has been giving shelter to the new one in its early stages of growth and the sequence of events that you describe is perfectly natural.
The average growth rate for nails is 0.1 mm each day (or 1 centimeter in 100 days). The exact rate of nail growth depends on numerous factors including the age and sex of the individual and the time of year. Fingernails generally grow faster in young people, in males, and in the summer. Fingernails grow faster than toenails.