Maggot Debridement Therapy

By Ron Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H The Primary Issues with Systematic Reviews My contribution to this column is very much overdue. Among other things, I have spent much of my time this past 12 months ...

By Ron Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H In my previous post on maggot therapy, we discussed the differences between confinement and containment maggot therapy dressings. This post will examine the studies th...

By Ronald Sherman MD, MSC, DTM&H In a previous post, we learned that all clinical studies to date and all but one laboratory study indicate that contained ("bagged") maggots are effective in wound ...

By Aletha Tippett, MD Recently I had a discussion with several other physicians and a topic that came up was why maggots were not more widely received. I was not aware that maggots were not widely ...