Most of aspirated foreign bodies in the dental practice fall into the digestive tract and are excreted with stools. A case of aspirated inlay as a foreign body in the bronchus is presented in this report. A 67-year-old man aspirated a metal inlay during treatment in a dental clinic. Thereafter, he had sometimes cough and chest pain. Four days later, the aspirated inlay was found roentgenologically in the right bronchus by a physician. But, unfortunately, his consultation with a specialist of this lesion was postponed because of consecutive hol. days in May. Finally 11 days after aspiration, this inlay was removed bronchoscopically by a surgeon of our university hospital.
