ReviewAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2015
Swallowed dentures: Two cases and a review.
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- Silent fractured denture ingestion resulting in sigmoid colon perforation: A case report.SAGE open medical case reports · 2026Article
- Harm From Foreign Body Ingestion in Adults and Children: A Systematic Review of Case Reports.Cureus · 2025Review
- Foreign Body Ingestion: Radiologic Evaluation, Findings, and Management.Korean journal of radiology · 2025Review
- Insidious pericardial journey of an orthodontic metallic retainer wire.Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery · 2024Article
- A swallowed denture leading to misdiagnosis with esophageal neoplasm: a case report.Oxford medical case reports · 2024Article
- An unusual etiology of acute intestinal occlusion: The swallowed missing dentures a case reports and literature review.International journal of surgery case reports · 2023Article
- Impact of unilateral removable partial dentures versus removable partial dentures with major connector on oral health-related quality of life of elder patients: a clinical study.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- Strategies for dental aspiration and ingestion accidents that can lead to serious complications: a report of three cases and a review of articles.Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons · 2022Article
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- Cecum perforation due to a fish bone.Oxford medical case reports · 2021Article
- Swallowed partial denture in severe intellectual disability patient.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
- Delayed dysphagia following foreign body swallowing: case report.Gastroenterology and hepatology from bed to bench · 2021Article
- Clinical presentation, diagnosis and management of aerodigestive tract foreign bodies in the adult population: Part 1.SA journal of radiology · 2021Review
- Management of a swallowed denture: our experience with 34 patients.German medical science : GMS e-journal · 2021Review
- Duodenal obstruction due to accidental swallowing of a dental prosthesis: a case report and review of the literature.Journal of medical case reports · 2020Review
- Ingested partial denture mimicking perforated diverticular disease.Journal of surgical case reports · 2019Article
- Dental Impaction in the Cecum: Case Report and Review of Gastrointestinal Foreign Body Impactions.Case reports in gastrointestinal medicine · 2018Article
- Impaction of swallowed dentures in the sigmoid colon requiring sigmoid colectomy.International journal of surgery case reports · 2018Article
- Case report of meningiomatosis with aspiration of a dental bridge improved by comprehensive rehabilitation therapy.Journal of physical therapy science · 2016Article
- [Foreign body aspiration and ingestion during oral disease treatment].Hua xi kou qiang yi xue za zhi = Huaxi kouqiang yixue zazhi = West China journal of stomatology · 2016Article
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Abstract
introductionDenture ingestion or aspiration is a problem requiring awareness of different specialists including dentists, surgeons, otolaryngologists, anesthesiologists etc. in terms of prevention, early diagnosis and adequate treatment. Complications of swallowed dentures include hollow viscus necrosis, perforation, penetration to neighbor organs leading to fistulae, bleeding and obstruction. PRESENTATION OF CASES: First case is a 54-year-old female who accidentally swallowed retractable one-tooth denture during fall about 22 h before admission and clinical manifestation of acute small bowel obstruction developed. The patient underwent laparotomy, enterotomy with retrieval of the foreign body. The second case is a 31-year-old male who accidentally ingested fixed one-tooth prosthesis while eating which impacted in the ileocaecal valve. During the preparation to colonoscopy the denture spontaneously passed out with stools. DISCUSSION: Denture ingestion is more common among patients with psychoneurologic deficit, alcohol and drug abusers. Among healthy and younger population denture ingestion is rare. Both reported patients are not elder. Thus dislodgement of removable or fixed dentures is another risk factor of denture ingestion. Most common site of denture impaction is esophagus; small bowel impaction is rare. Moreover, in most reported cases, small bowel impaction of ingested dentures leads to small bowel perforation. In our first case the complication of denture ingestion appeared to be bowel obstruction what is even rarer.
conclusionFixed dentures can be accidentally ingested as well as removable dentures. Denture loosening leads to accidental denture ingestion. Patients with denture loosening should be recommended to visit dentist as soon as possible.
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