Maggot therapy is a wound healing technique in which healthcare professionals apply medical grade maggots to dead or infected tissue to keep the wound clean. It is also known as larval therapy.

Many are only just finding out about the technique, known as maggot therapy, after a junior doctor explained it on TikTok – and it’s leaving everyone traumatized. Maggot therapy uses maggots ...

This hinged two-layered dressing decreases the time and expense of constructing maggot wound dressings by combining all of the necessary materials and adhesives into a single user-friendly "cage." ...

Dr. Ronald Sherman started studying myiasis and maggot therapy during medical school and published his first paper on the topic in 1983.

Besides health, he noted that the advantage of maggots is if applied in forensic research, can be applied on conversion of ...