According to a new report, one 72-year-old man who had abdominal surgery swallowed his dentures during the procedure. They got stuck in his throat -- and were only discovered eight days later.
Two days later, he returned to the emergency department with worsening symptoms. He told doctors he hadn't been able to swallow any of his prescribed medicines.
When told this, the man said his dentures -- a metal roof plate and three false teeth -- were lost during his previous hospital stay for his abdominal surgery. But the hospital still hadn't seen the last of him. He returned nine days later with more bleeding caused by a torn artery in the wound. Emergency surgery was ordered.
In the United Kingdom,"there are no set national guidelines on how dentures should be managed during anesthesia," the authors wrote in a journal news release.
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