Oral myiasis in paralytic patients with special needs: A report of three cases

Oral myiasis is invasion of the soft tissues of oral cavity by the parasitic larvae of the flies. This condition affects debilitated, mentally challenged individuals. These patients are not physically or mentally endowed to ward off flies or complain about worms burrowing their way into oral wounds....

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Autores principales: Bhansali, Sonal Priya, Tiwari, Anjali Dave, Gupta, Dinesh Kumar, Bhansali, Sumit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29937673
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/njms.NJMS_82_17
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description Oral myiasis is invasion of the soft tissues of oral cavity by the parasitic larvae of the flies. This condition affects debilitated, mentally challenged individuals. These patients are not physically or mentally endowed to ward off flies or complain about worms burrowing their way into oral wounds. This study describes three cases of orofacial myiasis, removal of the live maggots, supportive treatment, and management of the cases with application of turpentine oil and also highlights oral health care in the patients with special needs.
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spelling pubmed-59966402018-06-22 Oral myiasis in paralytic patients with special needs: A report of three cases Bhansali, Sonal Priya Tiwari, Anjali Dave Gupta, Dinesh Kumar Bhansali, Sumit Natl J Maxillofac Surg Case Report Oral myiasis is invasion of the soft tissues of oral cavity by the parasitic larvae of the flies. This condition affects debilitated, mentally challenged individuals. These patients are not physically or mentally endowed to ward off flies or complain about worms burrowing their way into oral wounds. This study describes three cases of orofacial myiasis, removal of the live maggots, supportive treatment, and management of the cases with application of turpentine oil and also highlights oral health care in the patients with special needs. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5996640/ /pubmed/29937673 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/njms.NJMS_82_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Oral myiasis in paralytic patients with special needs: A report of three cases
title Oral myiasis in paralytic patients with special needs: A report of three cases
title_full Oral myiasis in paralytic patients with special needs: A report of three cases
title_fullStr Oral myiasis in paralytic patients with special needs: A report of three cases
title_full_unstemmed Oral myiasis in paralytic patients with special needs: A report of three cases
title_short Oral myiasis in paralytic patients with special needs: A report of three cases
title_sort oral myiasis in paralytic patients with special needs: a report of three cases
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5996640/
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