Maggots in medicine
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The Effects of Mouth Hooks on Wound Healing
They eat necrotic tissue. They like it as it's starting to go bad and go off because their enzymes that they stick creek can actually break down that necrotic environment. Once they've done loads of extra corporeal digestion, how big do they get? So then they're going to get to about 14 to 15 millimeters. These things almost look cute. Those things do not. It can be quite a shock if you've never seen it before when you open that wound and you see them start to grow. After four days, they're done feeding. You're not going to get anything more out of them. And so we say take them off of the wound. They
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