Why can't we grow another toe?
81550
We can’t grow another toe because our body plan is set  genetically before we are born. The body grows according to that plan, not according to what the owner wants. The plan says we get 10 toes, so we get 10 toes.\nWe can no more grow another toe than grow taller simply because we want to. Growth is determined by the genetic plan. You can’t change it.
98617
why shouldn't  he buy a pair.\nhe can put one on his foot  \nAND THROW THE OTHER AT YOU FOR ASKING A STUPID QUESTION.
259985
probably trauma. You may not remember trapping your finger or toe, but it doesn't take much to damage the matrix where the nail grows from. If in doubt see your GP, but it should grow out in time.
616498
Junk ideas foisted off on us guys is that somehow we might be able to make it bigger. There is no way. Can you make your finger bigger, or your nose? So also, common sense wins out. Again, think for yourself.
702469
you might of done something to it like pull a muscle in it, because like you said that only one was hurting so i doubt that only one is growing\n\nhope i helped!!!!!
959960
You have more stimulation in your fingers than your toes.\n\nYou are constantly bending or moving your fingers. This stimulates them and makes your nails grow faster.\n\nYes you do walk on your toes but you are not constantly moving them to create as much stimulation.
1006112
your height is determined before birth, its in your genes, so you can't
880155
You definitely sound tall enough for me! Look, Tom Cruise isn't very tall and he has gone a long way.  But if it stills bugs you the Guardian reports that there is a procedure in China which involves breaking both legs and having them stretched on a rack. A doctor saws through the flesh and bone below the knee and inserts giant steel spins. These are then connected by eight screws punched horizontally through the ankle and calf to a steel cage surrounding each leg. Once the bones begin to heal, each day the "patient" turns the screws a little, and stretches his (or her) limbs more and more until he has grown to the desired height. It is 18 months of agony and pain. Some patients get to be five inches taller! I won't guarantee it though.
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"Balance" isn't much of an explanation.  Why is a big toe better than a small toe?  If big toes produced better balance, then why does it help to have it on the inside, rather than the center of the foot or the outside?  Why not 5 big toes on each foot?\n\nA better explanation is that it is an evolutionary throwback to the "thumb" on the foot of primates.  A lot of the internal bone structures, muscles, ligaments, and nerves of the foot provide further evidence.  Four examples (among many):\n\nFact 1: Look at your hand.  Notice that you have one fewer bone (one fewer joint) in your thumb than in your other fingers.  The same is true in your foot (see picture of foot bones in Source 1) ... your big toe has one fewer bone (one fewer joint) that your other toes .  And the same holds with all primate hands and feet.  Your big toe is a re-purposed "thumb".\n\nFact 2: There is a vestigial muscle in the calf of humans, called the 'plantaris' muscle.  (See source 2.)  It is completely useless in humans ... in fact it is so useless that it is a favorite to be harvested by surgeons needing tissue for reconstructive surgery (like heart surgery), and in fact 9% of humans are born without any plantaris muscle at all.  However, the same muscle is very important in other primates, as it is what lets them flex and oppose the large inside digit of the foot, to allow GRASPING WITH THE FEET.\n\nFact 3: Why is your thumb fatter than your other fingers?  Because it needs to be stronger than the other fingers to be opposable for grasping.  That is the reason the big toe is fatter  than the other toes.  It had to be fatter because it was once used for grasping.\n\nFact 4: Wiggle your toes.  Notice that you can wiggle your big toe independently of your other toes ... but it's very dificult to wiggle any other toe by itself (some people can wiggle their pinkie toe by itself).  The reason for this is that there are more nerves and muscles dedicated to the big toe than to your other toes ... again, evidence that the big toe was once used for grasping.\n\nYes, the human big toe (once we became ground walkers, and no longer grasped things with our feet) has moved forward help the other toes produce better balance when walking upright ... but that doesn't explain why there was a big toe in the first place.
222192
you can't not big enough
766009
My mum, my daughters and I all have longer second toes than big toes. Apparently, it is a sign of great intelligence.
1068862
There's really nothing you can do for toes. Just make an anatomical splint. (Tape the broken one to the toe beside it.)
250276
It is most definetly a recessive gfene. I know this because so few people posses this trait. However there is a possibility of it occuring. Actually the small big toe depends not just on one allele but several alleles at several loci but in the end all sucha lleles are recessive and do not give heterozygote advantage
1109781
You don't really need that one.\n\n"The toes, especially the big toe, play an essential role in walking, although a loss of the smallest toe will not affect gait."
561429
No, he cannot -- FIFA rule # 2378B clearly states that the absence of the LEFT little toe is tolerated, but not the right one.
879200
stroke it to make it hard. but to make it bigger than what you have is impossible. your genes determine your size. cheers!
186111
It is possible if you are born with a strange mutation such that you have hundreds of fingers.  If you only have ten fingers you could do one digit at a time and just remember if you need to cary one over.