PHOTOS show moment MAGGOT was removed from woman's mouth

This stomach-churning video shows the hideous moment a live maggot is pulled out from inside a woman’s lip.

The clip, which is a minute-and-a-half long, shows the surgeon battling to remove the larvae, which has caused a painful-looking bulbous swelling on her top lip.

It looks red, sore and is nearly the size of a grape.

A doctor wearing white gloves is seen trying to pull out the larvae out of the swelling using long tweezers.

It appears to be stuck inside her lip, and the doctor is forced to repeatedly tug in circular motions.

With each swing of the tweezers more of the worm appears, although it resists being removed.

In total, it takes more than a minute to remove the creature from the woman’s face.

However she doesn’t appear to be in pain, and lies still throughout the procedure.

When it is finally removed, the camera zooms in on the white creature, which looks to be around an inch long.

The video has been viewed almost 550,000 times since it was posted on YouTube in March.

There are no details about the patient, or how the maggot came to be in her lip.

She appears to be suffering from oral myasis – a rare condition in which the tissue of the mouth or nose are invaded with larvae of flies.

Myiasis comes from the Latin word 'myia' meaning fly and 'iasis' means disease.

The flies' larvae can feed on the host's living or dead tissue, liquid body substance, or ingested food.

When the tissues in the oral cavity are invaded by parasites, this is known as oral myiasis.



Those at risk of the rare condition include those from poorer social backgrounds and people who have suffered wounds or other injury to the face.

It is also more common in regions with a warmer climate.

Infestations of the nose and ears are dangerous because of the possibility of penetration into the brain, the fatality rate is 8 per cent in such cases.

However it is very rare to see larvae invade the lips or the mouth, according to a paper in the journal Contemporary Clinical Dentistry.

This normally happens when the larvae get into the skin through wounds.

But specific type of flies can even penetrate healthy skin, it warned.
The video comes after MailOnline reported on the story of a 10-year-old Brazilian girl with oral myasis in March.

Ana Cardoso had been taken to a clinic in Brazil after complaining of a tingling sensation in her gums and things 'moving around'.



Every time she brushed her teeth she said she still felt as though there was something in her mouth.

At the clinic, she was horrified to discover more than a dozen maggots living inside her mouth.

A surgeon painstakingly removed one maggot at a time with a pair of tweezers, much to her and her mother’s horror.

'I couldn't believe it when they said she had a disease and then started pulling the maggots out,' said Ms Cardoso.

'I thought I was going to be sick.'