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What are your thoughts of using colloidal silver before having an excisional neck biopsy?can it be used before or after surgery?
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Colloidal silver: Is of no proven clinical benefit. Safety concerns about the accumulation of silver. I do not know of any clinical need for it
Answered 11/18/2014
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