The Japanese Journal of Pediatric Dentistry
Online ISSN : 2186-5078
Print ISSN : 0583-1199
ISSN-L : 0583-1199
A case of a Drinking-strew-like Foreign Body Impacted around a Teeth
Tomohiro MizutaniAkira NakayamaKen OuryoujiJing YangHiroshi IwasakiHiroo Miyazawa
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2007 Volume 45 Issue 5 Pages 639-644

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Abstract
Young children possess a tendency to put various things that they see into their mouths.
This report describes a case where by it was thought that a foreign body in the form of a straw had impacted into a primary anterior tooth of a girl two years old 11 months for a long period time after which she came to our department in MDU hospital.
The case involved a girl aged two years eleven months, who had not been seeing dentists for about two years, though a trauma by a fall would be owed to the primary anterior teeth in about nine to ten months after her birth, and had been recognized as malformation of an anterior primary central incisor since then.
Afterwards, when she was two years eleven months old, she came to our department with sorenesses of the teeth as her chief complaint.
She was diagnosed as having a milk-white foreign body was recognized in the anterior primary central incisor according to our dental examination a foreign body impact and it was removed. The periodontal bone around it caused the absorption of a shape corresponding to the foreign body to a high degree. The object removed was a drinking-straw-like foreign body colored milk-white, and it turned out to be the contents of the pillow that had been used previously. A tendency of the periodontal bone was slightly recognized from the mesiodistal direction six months after the removal of foreign body.
It is necessary to do a careful removal of a foreign body after prompt and unerring diagnosis, and is preferable to do the medical examination to the restitution tendency to the periodontal tissues after the removal of foreign body.
Moreover, it is necessary to advance the spread of knowledge concerning the harm caused when children put foreign bodies into their mouth the guardian and the people involved to the child care.
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