Do rotary nose-hair trimmers actually work?

[Machine_Elf]

@Mangetout

Plucking nose hairs is supposed to be not a great idea; the nose is a dirty place and an exposed open follicle can get infected pretty easily.

Quoting from a post of mine a few years ago on this topic:

@Machine_Elf

I’ve heard before that it’s “not safe,” but I have no idea what “not safe” means.

Does it mean that if 100 people do it every three months, one of them will eventually die from it (in which case I’ll stop)?

Or does it mean that if 100,000 people do it every three months, then one of them will eventually die from it (in which case I’m not terribly worried)?

FWIW, this doctor says it’s a gross exaggeration of a theoretical problem - which brings up the question, are there documented cases of nose-hair plucking leading to life-altering complications?

The article I linked to seems to be gone now, but I still haven’t heard of any actual cases of infection that could be tracked back to plucking nose hairs.