An Unerupted Tooth? – Who Nose?

From Volume 36, Issue 2, March 2009 | Pages 119-120

Authors

Sheena Kotecha

BDS Hons(GKT), MFDS RCS(Eng)

Senior House Officer Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, UK

Articles by Sheena Kotecha

PG John Rout

BDS, FRD RCS, DDR RCR, MDentSci, FRCR

Birmingham Dental Hospital, St Chad's Queensway, Birmingham, UK

Articles by PG John Rout

Abstract

Foreign bodies may present to the general dental practitioner, either as a cause of complaint or, more commonly, as an incidental finding during routine examination. This article describes an unusual case where a rhinolith perforated the hard palate to appear in the mouth as an erupting tooth.

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