An unusual foreign body in an unerupted supernumerary tooth.
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.
Toida
M
M
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan.
Ichihara
H
H
Okutomi
T
T
Nakamura
K
K
Ishimaru
J I
JI
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