Oral Myiasis Caused by Chrysomya bezziana in Anterior Maxilla

• Main Authors: Ankur Aggarwal (Author), M. Jonathan Daniel (Author), Raju Singam Shetty (Author), Boddu Naresh Kumar (Author), C. H. Sumalatha (Author), E. Srikanth (Author), Shalu Rai (Author), Rohit Malik (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Oral myiasis is a rare pathology and is associated with poor oral hygiene, alcoholism, senility, suppurating lesions, and severe halitosis. It arises from invasion of body tissues or cavities of living animals by maggots or larvae of certain dipterian flies. It is mostly reported in developing count...