title: An unusual foreign body in an unerupted supernumerary tooth.
abstract: A case of an unusual foreign body (a tip fragment from a plastic chopstick) embedded in one of two unerupted supernumerary teeth in the premaxillary region of a 12-year-old Japanese boy is presented.
authors: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Toida
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Ichihara
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Okutomi
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Nakamura
authors: J I
authors: JI
authors: Ishimaru
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003297:Cooking and Eating Utensils; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010159:Palate / Q000293:injuries*; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D014096:Tooth, Supernumerary / Q000150:complications