title: Oral gingival myiasis: A rare case report and literature review.
abstract: Myiasis is a universal term for extreme infection by the parasitic fly larvae that feed on their host living/dead tissue. Gingival myiasis is a rare disease in the humans associated with poor oral hygiene, suppurative oral lesions, alcoholism, and senility, among other conditions. We present a case of gingival myiasis in the maxillary anterior region on the palatal surface in a 21-year-old mentally challenged male with moderate periodontitis and neurologic deficit. The diagnosis was made on the presence of larvae in the lesion. Treatment done was a manual removal of the larvae, one by one, with the help of the clinical forceps, surgical debridement of the oral wound, and subsequent management of the periodontal disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Pathology, Index Institute of Dental Sciences, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Dheeraj
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, Uttaranchal Dental and Medical Research Institute, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.
authors.forename: Sandeep
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Index Institute of Dental Sciences, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Pranav
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Parashar
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Index Institute of Dental Sciences, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Vihang Vinod
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Naphade
keywords: Fly larvae; oral myiasis; parasite infection