Abstract
It may be occasionally happened that the patients swallow the restorative object or broken denture. Such cases may actually cndanger the lift of the patient.
We encountered the case of a bronchial foreign body swallowed by seven-yearold boy.
1) The foreign body was a broken fragmant of space maintainer in the right bronchus.
2) His mother took him to the surgeon for consultation, because she suspected the swallowing of a broken foragment of the partial denture, but the surgeon could not find the fregment.
3) The next day he visited the clinic of Fukuoka Dental College, and we suspected that the patient had swallowed the bronchial foreign body and he was referred to the otorhinolaryngologist who removed the fragment.
