Honestly, I have no first hand experience treating major shell trauma because no turtles are native to where I live. All I"ve learned are through discussions on the veterinary information network (about as up to date as you can get) and through veterinary text books (most recent one out is Mader Dec 2005)

Yes though, success has been seen in adult turtles with this type of injury. If epoxy is still seen as the best route, or because protection is necessary during healing, (the epoxy does delay union I believe), then it is only applied at a much later time to make sure healing has progressed well, and infection will not be trapped withen (impossible to completely eliminate this risk).

Ian

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