Long-term impaction of a foreign body in the hard palate.
Foreign bodies in the hard palate have only rarely been documented. This article describes and illustrates a case of foreign material in the hard palate. In the literature, no such 18-month-long period of impaction in the hard palate has been reported. Surprisingly, despite this long period of impaction, the foreign material did not lead to any tissue necrosis or perforation.
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey [corrected]
Figen
F
Ozgür
Hakan
H
Ozdemir
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D021362:Palate, Hard; D010969:Plastics
D010969:Plastics