Oral myiasis caused by sarcophagidae in an extraction wound.
Oral myiasis (infestation by the larvae of Diptera flies) has only rarely been reported in the English-language literature. This article records a case of wound myiasis caused by flies of the family Sarcophagidae that affected a tooth-extraction site, and was a painful complication of the extraction.
Bozzo
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Department of Oral Pathology, Faculty of Odontology, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, Brazil.
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Scully
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009198:Myiasis; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000469:parasitology*; D014081:Tooth Extraction / Q000009:adverse effects*