Accidental ingestion of a dental bur in an 84-year-old male.
Francesk MulitaIoannis PanagiotopoulosGeorgios-Ioannis VerrasElias LiolisLevan TchabashviliThemistoklis ParaskevasFotios IliopoulosDimitrios BousisChristos MichailidesCharalampos KaplanisIoannis PerdikarisKonstantinos BouchagierDimitrios FilisDimitrios VelissarisPublished in: Clinical case reports (2022)
This report describes the case of an 84-year-old male who was brought to the emergency room because a dental bur was swallowed accidentally during a dental procedure. The foreign body was successfully removed by gastroenterologists endoscopically 8 days after the ingestion and was identified as a 2-cm-long dental bur.