Re: Anyone here who has had successful cavitation surgery?

Some months back I came across a dental journal article from the 1930's that told of experimental research that was done in utilizing maggot debridement therapy on jawbone osteomyelitis. They fashioned a type of denture for this purpose.

Maggots that are used medicinally are truly extraordinary in the way they consume dead material and stimulate healing by an enzyme they emit.

I have been in touch with Robert Sherman, M.D. at U.C. Irvine who back in the early 90's was instrumental in bringing Maggot Debridement Therapy into the modern era. He has expressed a willingness to be of advisory assistance if there is a dentist or oral surgeon who would have an interest in utilizing this modality to treat mandibular osteomyelitis. Dr. Sherman says he is not aware of anyone who is currently doing so.

Would anyone happen to know of anyone who is or who might be willing to do some pioneering work in this area?

Following is a quote from "History of Maggot Thrapy."

"Maggots were primarily used, however, in the treatment of osteomyelitis, 3,6,7,11-13,21-24 and although unable to digest or liquefy dead bone (sequestra) they were said to facilitate its separation at the interface with normal bone, leaving behind clean healthy granulation tissue3. Very many dramatic accounts of its use appear in the literature summarized by Pomerantz25 who stated that following maggot therapy `the end product approximates more closely to normal bone structure than any of the hitherto accepted methods of treatment'"
Below is the title of the article about the study in the early 1930's on intraoral MDT.

Ochsenhirt, NC, Komara, MA Treatment of osteomyelitis of mandible by
intraoral maggot-therapy. Journal of Dental Research 1933; 13: 245-246.43 Tweet