Foreign body ingestion in dental practice

• Hauptverfasser: S Bhatnagar (Verfasst von), U M Das (Verfasst von), G D Chandan (Verfasst von), S T Prashanth (Verfasst von), L Gowda (Verfasst von), N Shiggaon (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Schlagworte: article
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Most foreign bodies pass through the gastrointestinal tract uneventfully. The majority of the reported literature describes the management of ingested blunt objects. However, ingestion of sharp objects can still occur with a higher rate of perforation corresponding to treatment dilemmas. We report a...