Our Experience in the Management of Traumatic Wound Myiasis: Report of 3 Cases and Review of the Literature

Anand Deep Shukla; Abhay T. Kamath; Adarsh Kudva; Deepika Pai; Nilesh Patel

doi:10.1155/2016/7030925

Case Reports in Dentistry (Jan 2016)

Our Experience in the Management of Traumatic Wound Myiasis: Report of 3 Cases and Review of the Literature

Anand Deep Shukla,
Abhay T. Kamath,
Adarsh Kudva,
Deepika Pai,
Nilesh Patel

Affiliations

Anand Deep Shukla: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, India
Abhay T. Kamath: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, India
Adarsh Kudva: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, India
Deepika Pai: Department of Pedodontics, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, India
Nilesh Patel: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/7030925
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2016

Abstract

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Compromised health and hygiene can lead to many complications and one among them is traumatic wound myiasis. Myiasis is the invasion of living tissues by larvae of flies. Three cases of traumatic orofacial wound myiasis and treatment strategies followed for the management of them are reported in this paper.

Published in Case Reports in Dentistry

ISSN: 2090-6447 (Print); 2090-6455 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Dentistry
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2415

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