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I saw maggot therapy on a show on the Discovery channel once. They used clean maggots grown specifically for the therapy. It showed someone who'd gotten a wound that had gotten infected and had maggot therapy. They arm had a relatively small scar. Doctors said that if they'd used surgery that the person would have had what would amount to a huge hole in their arm where flesh and muscle would have had to have been cut out. I guess the maggots are smart enough and precise enough to eat only the bad flesh leaving the good flesh on a nearly cellular level. I think they left them in for a week or two on the person that they filmed from wound to healed. By the time they removed the dressing that held them in, they were big and pretty freakin disgusting. I understand the benefits, but man, that would be hard to volunteer for.