A Doctor describes how he uses maggots to debride necrotic tissue from good tissue. The maggots only eat the dead tissue while leaving the healthy tissue intact. As you can see it is being used as an alternative therapy for assisting the healing of a heel ulcer for a diabetic patient.
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