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Swallowed partial dentures

Harvey White

149 Harley Street, London W1G 6DE, UK

Mr Hashmi and his colleagues (February 2004 JRSM¹) do not cite a BMJ letter of mine in 1972 recording the retrieval, with difficulty, of a partial denture from the right main bronchus.² The prosthesis had been inhaled on diving into a swimming pool. My letter drew attention to a paper by Coman³ reporting three cases, of which the most alarming concerned a man who had inhaled his partial denture when parachuting. Another illustrated the hazard of metal clips to attach the prosthesis to neighbouring teeth: a hook caused a prosthesis to be stuck in the oesophagus for some 3 weeks, causing a para-oesophageal abscess. I suggested that it would be a wise precaution to remove these potentially lethal pieces of apparatus before engaging in violent exercise and probably also at night. I was, of course, thinking of lying on one's back mouth-breathing. However, a journalist clever in lateral thinking picked this up and, to my astonishment, I was telephoned by the Today programme to make a live comment about my recommendation of removing dentures before intercourse. Later I found myself surrounded by newspapers with headlines such as ‘Love peril of your false teeth’, ‘The safe way of making love... by gum’.

REFERENCES

1. Hashmi S, Walter J, Smith W, Latis S. Swallowed partial dentures. J R Soc Med2004; 97:72 -5[Abstract/Free Full Text]

2. White H. Risks of small dentures. BMJ1972; iii:694 -5

3. Coman W. The partial denture—a dangerous foreign body. Med J Aust1972; ii:1126 -8

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