title: Eating as a hazard to health: preventing, treating dental injuries caused by foreign objects in food.
abstract: The Food and Drug Administration maintains a passive surveillance system for reporting and follow-up of complaints related to food items. The most commonly reported complaint is the discovery of foreign objects in food. The most common injuries are abrasions to the throat and buccal mucosa. Although dentists are qualified to treat oral injury resulting from foreign object ingestion, more physicians than dental professionals treat soft tissue trauma.
authors.affiliation: Epidemiology Branch, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Md. 20857.
authors.forename: F N
authors.initials: FN
authors.lastname: Hyman
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Klontz
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tollefson
mesh_terms: D004064:Digestive System / Q000293:injuries; D005506:Food Contamination; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D009055:Mouth / Q000293:injuries*; D011358:Product Surveillance, Postmarketing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012042:Registries; D018677:Tooth Injuries; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology