Foreign body ingestion in dental practice

• Main Authors: S Bhatnagar (Author), U M Das (Author), G D Chandan (Author), S T Prashanth (Author), L Gowda (Author), N Shiggaon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

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...