title: Self-inflected oral injuries and suicidal ideation secondary to loss of teeth.
abstract: Deliberate self-harm is common in the psychiatric and dental literature. Many methods of self-destructive behavior are described, including burning, skin carving, eye enucleation, wrist cutting, amputation of body parts and genital mutilation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical Center, New York.
authors.forename: K V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Watkins
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003778:Dentures / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009055:Mouth / Q000293:injuries*; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000209:etiology*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*; D014081:Tooth Extraction / Q000523:psychology; D016388:Tooth Loss / Q000523:psychology*