Debridement is a medical term referring to the removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue. Often this removal is surgical, but other methods exist: mechanical, chemical, and autolytic. A thoracic surgeon performs a mitral valve replacement at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, November 1990. ...

Maggot Debridement Therapy is the intentional introduction by a health care practitioner of live, disinfected maggots or fly larvae into the non-healing skin and soft tissue wound(s) of a human or other animal for the purpose of debridement. Medical Maggots™ represent the first living organism ever allowed by the modern Food and Drug Administration for production and marketing. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly, Ceratitis capitata Dance fly male Empis tesselata The flesh fly, Sarcophaga carnaria As defined by entomologists, a fly (plural flies) is any species of insect of the order Diptera. ... Superficial bullet wounds A wound is type of physical trauma wherein the skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). ...

In oral hygiene, debridement refers to the removal of the dental tartar that has accumulated over teeth. Debridement in this case is done using hand tools and ultrasound instruments. The ultrasound dislodges the tartar which is then removed. Oral hygiene is keeping the mouth clean. ... In dentistry, calculus or tartar refers to hardened plaque on the teeth, formed by the presence of saliva, debris, and minerals. ... A baby in its mothers womb, viewed in a sonogram A baby, aged 29 weeks, in a 3D ultrasound Ultrasound is sound with a frequency greater than the upper limit of human hearing, this limit being approximately 20 kilohertz (20,000 hertz). ...