debride

Maggots can debride a wound in a day or two.

If you debride too much, you just end up losing bone.

"Then we'll have to debride the dead tissue, disinfect it, and hope for the best."

Using my scalpel, I began to debride the area, ridding it of ruined skin and tissue.

Licking will also tend to debride the wound and remove gross contamination from the affected area.

Her flesh would debride my own.

The surgeon's ability to inspect and debride both surfaces of the rotator cuff, rather than just the outside.

First, larvae have been shown to debride wounds with extremely low probability of myiasis upon clinical application.

Surgery may be required to debride or repair the injury or to relieve excessive intracranial pressure.

Think you can debride it??

When maggots successfully debride a necrotic wound, a source of wound infection is removed.

To achieve resolution, endodontic therapy must be performed to debride the root canal or canals and remove pathogens.

Being asked to peer inside Hitler's brain was rather like being asked to debride gangrenous tissue: revolting but necessary.

In Maggot therapy, larvae of certain flies in the family Calliphoridae are used to debride necrotic wounds.

In addition to drugs, surgery is sometimes indicated to remove focalized infections, such as pulmonary cavities, or to debride osseous forms of the disease [22].

At the end of the sixth day, remove the tape, soak the wart in water and then gently debride it with a pumice stone or emory board.

Physical therapists utilize surgical instruments, mechanical lavage, dressings and topical agents to debride necrotic tissue and promote tissue healing.

In such circumstances, a surgeon may opt to debride a portion of the surrounding healthy tissue - as little as possible - to ensure that the tumor is completely removed.

Promptly debride the burn if the patient's condition will permit removal of bits of WP (white phosphorus) that might be absorbed later and possibly produce systemic poisoning.

However, in February 2010, he underwent a procedure to debride dead tissue from his right wrist performed by Dr. Steven Shin in Los Angeles.

John held it up; no ragged edges, so there probably wasn't much left in the wound-hopefully not too much dirty cloth, either; since there was no time to debride it.

The typical initial treatment known to be effective is scaling and root planing (SRP) to mechanically debride the depths of the periodontal pocket and disrupt the biofilm present.

In maggot therapy, large numbers of small maggots consume necrotic tissue far more precisely than is possible in a normal surgical operation, and can debride a wound in a day or two.

"Medicinal maggots have three actions: 1) they debride (clean) wounds by dissolving the dead (necrotic), infected tissue; 2) they disinfect the wound, by killing bacteria; and 3) they stimulate wound healing."

It is a point of interest in endodontics, as it is considered necessary to thoroughly chemomechanically debride the pulp space to remove all necrotic tissue and minimise bacterial load in the pulp space.