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Oral myiasis in older adult with severe Alzheimer's disease.

Spec Care Dentist

March 2018

Associate Professor, Department of Community Dentistry, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Piracicaba, Brazil.

Aims: Myiasis is a disease caused by the invasion of tissues by larvae of flies. The aim of this study was to carry out a review of reported cases of oral and maxillofacial myiasis in older adults and to show a case report of oral myiasis in a 95-year-old frail man with severe Alzheimer's disease from Brazil.

Methods And Results: Between 1988 and 2017, 35 oral and maxillofacial myiasis cases were reported in older adults in English-language studies from PubMed and Lilacs databases.

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