title: Unusual foreign body in the nasal cavity of an adult with repaired cleft lip and palate.
abstract: Intranasal foreign bodies arising from dental clinical practice, especially in patients with cleft lip and palate (CLP) occur rarely and are very scarce in the literature. This article reports an unusual case of a dental impression material presenting as a foreign body in the nasal cavity of an adult with repaired CLP who presented for dental prosthetic rehabilitation. To our knowledge, this is only the second report presenting nasal foreign body in a cleft patient arising due to a dental impression procedure.
authors.forename: Nagabhairava
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ravikumar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: GunaShekhar
authors.forename: S Raghavendra
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Prasad
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lalitha
authors.forename: P Ramanjaneya
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Raju
authors.forename: Y A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Natesh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000601:surgery*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000601:surgery*; D003760:Dental Impression Materials; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009296:Nasal Cavity; D016155:Oral Fistula / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D003760:Dental Impression Materials
keywords: Cleft palate; dental impression; foreign body; nose; palatal fistulae; prosthetic rehabilitation