Two Cases of False Tooth and Tooth

Foreign Body in the Bronchus

Abstract

Tracheo-bronchial foreign bodies of the dental material are rare, a though all cases are recognized as esophagus foreign bodies.
Since 1985, we experienced 2 cases of tracheo-bronchial foreign bodies which are teeth and false teeth.
The first case was in a 51-year-old man who had aspirated a false tooth into the right bronchus.
The second case was in a 60-year-old man who had aspirated a tooth into the right bronchus.
Because these two cases became unconsious, they how the foreign bodies, were swallowed, remained unknown.
We emphasized the danger of misswallowing of foreign bodies in an unconsious condition.