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

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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

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal
Department of Paedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	7030925
Journal	Case Reports in Dentistry
Volume	2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/7030925
Publication status	Published - 2016

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