article_snippet: Agony: Russian model Maria Lomovskikh (pictured) needed surgery after her fingernails were filed too short .
article_snippet: Igor Korotkiy, the head surgeon who carried out the operation, said that surgery was the only option because of the mutilation caused to the model's fingers.
article_snippet: Igor Korotkiy, the head surgeon who carried out the operation added: 'The damage was so bad the only thing we could do was to take having acute purulent inflammation of two nails off completely.
article_snippet: It is difficult to say if having acute purulent inflammation of two nails will ever grow again.'
article_snippet: Ms Lomovskikh claims to have lost out on three jobs because of the injuries .
article_snippet: I have lost three jobs because of the deformity caused by Anastasia Kretova
article_snippet: and I have been told that I will not be able to model lingerie or cigarettes again. '