Denture Misadventure: The Tooth About Your Colon.

Authors

Rajesh Essrani MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Patrick Hickey DO, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow
Hiral N. Shah MD, Lehigh Valley Health NetworkFollow

Publication/Presentation Date

1-15-2019

Abstract

Foreign body ingestion occurs mainly in a mentally impaired person, but rarely in healthy adults. A 48-year-old male was admitted with a recurrence of previously diagnosed right knee septic arthritis and accidentally ingested his dental bridge which was removed from a proximal ascending colon with a colonoscopy.

Volume

11

Issue

1

First Page

3890

Last Page

3890

ISSN

2168-8184

Comments

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0.

Published In/Presented At

Essrani, R., Hickey, P., & Shah, H. (2019). Denture Misadventure: The Tooth About Your Colon. Cureus, 11(1), e3890. doi:10.7759/cureus.3890.

Disciplines

Gastroenterology | Internal Medicine

PubMedID

30911447

Department(s)

Department of Medicine, Department of Medicine Faculty, Department of Medicine Fellows and Residents

Document Type

Article