Affiliation:
1. Dept. of Dentistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna
2. Vice-Chancellor, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Abstract
In children, discovery of a foreign body in teeth is often diagnosed accidently which may be lodged due to a traumatic injury or it may be a self-inflicted injury. However, in adults, it may be due to a social habit and the patient usually reports only when he/she experiences pain and then the foreign object is discovered in radiographic examination.
In this article, we present a case report of a 23-year-old male with a ball pen nib lodged into the lower molar teeth due to an unusual social habit, which the patient himself was unaware about and the subsequent removal of the foreign body.
Subject
General Medicine,General Medicine,General Medicine,Applied Mathematics,General Mathematics,Computer Science Applications,History,Education,General Medicine,General Chemistry,General Medicine,General Medicine,General Medicine,General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science
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